Question weights
Politicalcompass.org’s per-question weights have never been published. Here, the weights are the product: the complete current table, formula, and instrument hash are on our published scoring methodology.
A factual comparison · no mystery claims
How we differ
Is the Political Compass test accurate or biased? No two-axis quiz can settle a person’s politics. What can be checked is how a test turns answers into a result.
Politicalcompass.org and this test
Politicalcompass.org is an external site and the best-known example of this format. We do not claim that a different design makes our political judgments objectively correct. We make narrower claims that readers can verify.
Where coordinates come from
Politicalcompass.org’s final chart reads coordinates from its URL query string; its client-side chart trusts those values. Our server computes coordinates from stored answers. Result URLs carry no coordinates, so changing a URL cannot move the dot.
Language and validation
Many politicalcompass.org items use dated or UK-centric wording. Our questions use contemporary US wording and target a ten-year-old reading level. A repository validator enforces Flesch–Kincaid grade 6 or below for the instrument.
A stated scoring assumption
We treat the four response choices as equally spaced. That is a modeling assumption, not a finding. We publish it because ordinal labels do not prove equal psychological distance. Politicalcompass.org does not state an equivalent scoring assumption.
What a result cannot prove
Published weights and server-side calculation make a result explainable; they do not establish who answered the questions or whether the answers were sincere. A person or a script can submit a plausible answer set. We therefore make no claim about the provenance of any single result.
The four quadrant guides explain what the two displayed scores mean. Start with the authoritarian-left interpretation, authoritarian-right interpretation, libertarian-left interpretation, or libertarian-right interpretation. You can also take the political compass test.