PoliSpectrumTest is a political typology quiz where the user the degree to which they agree for 50 propositions concerning topics of interest. This test evaluates positions across social and economic dimensions to provide results of where the user lies on a simple two-axes political spectrum.
The aim of this test is two-fold. The first is to give users a chance to evaluate and ponder various propositions that encompass a significant portion of the modern political parlance. The second is to produce a meaningful idea of where the user lies on the political spectrum. Most political typology tests try to calculate the users political score using many different axes and create elaborate visualisations. But most people talk about politics in terms of left and right, socially and economically. We here politicians being described as "far left", "far right", "left-wing", "right-wing", or "centrist." We identify ourselves colloquially as "Socially [X]" and "Economically [Y]." And the news media describes movements using a similar method. "Keir Starmer has shifted to the left." "Mark Carney is economically further to the right of Trudeau." Producing a simple results graphic using the left and right axes allows for a clear, interpretable, and communicable representation of the user's political views.
This test utilizes two distinct scales for our results: