Read the Authority end of the civil axis with Liberty, response context and limits; no character, loyalty or voting verdict.
Read the Authority end of the civil axis with Liberty, response context and limits; no character, loyalty or voting verdict.
This pole is one side of its named axis. Read it with the complementary pole and the weighted item responses; percentages are not population ranks, probabilities or a fixed identity.
What the civil-axis name summarizes
Authority names the complementary end of the upstream civil axis, connected in this questionnaire to responses favouring stronger state power or limits on some personal freedoms. It does not measure a person’s leadership skill, obedience, moral worth or conduct toward other people. Nor does a response to one restriction establish acceptance of every restriction. This is a fixed weighted summary of the included statements, not a complete theory of political authority.
A concrete comparison
Imagine a fictional respondent who supports one kind of public rule and rejects another because they understand the two situations differently. Their total combines both responses. A second respondent can reach the same number while disagreeing on which rule should exist. Some statements affect multiple axes, so an intuitive issue label is not a substitute for the published effects. This example explains the calculation without recommending a policy, a leader or a political organization.
Read Liberty beside Authority
Authority is 100 minus the displayed Liberty value after the primary calculation is rounded. These figures express one axis, not two independent qualities. A larger Authority figure does not by itself prove support for every powerful institution, and a lower figure does not show inability to cooperate with rules. The questionnaire cannot infer a person’s motives or behaviour from agreement with a broad statement about public power.
Middle and mixed values remain open
Near 50, the same pair can come from many neutral responses, offsetting strong responses or context-specific distinctions. Exactly 50 does not produce a validated moderate type, and a nearby percentage does not identify a stable political category. Consider what the actual answers were before interpreting the aggregate. The display has no population norm or established smallest meaningful difference, so a tenth of a point is not a reliable verdict about anyone.
An optional context check
Return to a statement that seemed ambiguous and describe the setting you supplied. Ask what detail would help you explain your response more accurately, without needing to change it. There is no desired direction to move. These notes offer no political or legal advice. Do not use another person’s result to assign duties, test loyalty or decide their voting behaviour; their stated reasons matter more than a label.
How the pair is computed
The civil axis uses the pinned absolute weight sum of 320. All seventy selected multipliers are applied to each statement’s signed effects; the civil contribution is normalized and rounded to one decimal, and Authority is the complement to 100. An answer can affect another axis as well. Missing responses do not receive a neutral multiplier. A full result is a normalized score, not a probability, population percentile or professional political classification.
Keep the source and limits visible
The English bank and effects remain tied to the identified MIT source. Chinese translation and these original reading notes do not establish translation equivalence, reliability or contemporary cultural validity. There is no endorsement by upstream or IDRlabs, no nearest-ideology assignment and no voting recommendation. Sharing uses a general public link without responses or scores. Read the four axes separately rather than turning this attempt into a permanent political identity.