12 Axes vs SapplyValues

How the axes relate

The Left–Right score overlaps the economic themes in Economy and Control. Authority–Liberty relates to Power and Representation. Progressive–Conservative is closest in subject matter to Morality, but the underlying statements are not identical. Immigration, Religion, Trade and Technology are distinct coordinates in 12 Axes rather than being inferred from those three broader scores.

Choose by what you want to explore

Choose SapplyValues when you want a compass-style result that explicitly separates a progress dimension from authority. That distinction can be useful when a familiar two-axis chart appears to combine cultural conservatism with state power. Choose 12 Axes when you want to examine a wider set of individual trade-offs and compare the resulting vector with separate reference catalogs.

SapplyValues combines questions from the Sapply test with an interface derived from 8values, and its own page describes wording changes. The separate progress score is therefore a meaningful design choice, not simply an extra decorative label. The best choice depends on the conversation you want to have. If your main concern is economic and civil authority, a compact result may be sufficient. If you want to distinguish military means, external intervention, migration and international commerce, separate axes may be more useful. Avoid converting scores between the tools as though the scales had been calibrated against one another. To make the comparison useful, choose one disagreement you want to discuss before opening the results. If the disagreement concerns tradition, read the progress dimension and the Morality explanation. If it concerns censorship, focus on civil power instead. Separating those questions reduces the temptation to infer every social attitude from a single position in the authority part of a compass.

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