Read the civil Liberty pole with Authority, mixed answers and the difference between normalized responses and political identity.
Read the civil Liberty pole with Authority, mixed answers and the difference between normalized responses and political identity.
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.
Civil liberty is the named axis here
Liberty is the positive end of the upstream civil axis, concerned in the included statements with personal freedoms and the limits of state power. It is distinct from the economic Markets pole. A larger number does not establish support for every possible freedom or identify the respondent as a member of a political movement. The label summarizes weighted responses, not courage, civic virtue or the quality of someone’s reasoning.
A concrete comparison
Imagine a fictional respondent who opposes broad surveillance but accepts a particular restriction in another situation. Those answers need not be identical in direction. The questionnaire aggregates several statements and some cross-axis weights, so one civil-liberty answer does not determine the complete result. Another person may reach the same civil total through a different combination. This example explains scoring; it does not recommend a surveillance policy or provide legal advice.
Read Authority as the complement
Authority is the paired display, calculated as 100 minus the rounded Liberty percentage. The two numbers are one normalized axis rather than two independent capacities or probabilities. A larger Liberty value does not prove that someone rejects every institution or rule. A smaller value does not establish lack of concern for rights. Do not infer motives, party membership or real-world conduct from the label alone.
A middle value is not a stable category
A value near 50 may reflect neutral selections, different views on different restrictions or opposing responses that offset. Exactly 50 is an arithmetic midpoint and does not certify moderation, indecision or a balanced political character. The result cannot explain whether someone interpreted a statement narrowly or broadly. Small rounded changes have no established significance, and the quiz supplies no population ranking for civil liberty.
An optional interpretation check
Choose one broad statement and note what institution, situation or limit you imagined when answering. You can distinguish what you understood from what the sentence explicitly said. There is no preferred political conclusion to adopt here. These notes are not a rights assessment or legal guidance. Ask people about their own views rather than using a quiz score to decide whether they are trustworthy or deserve a particular role.
The fixed civil-axis calculation
In the pinned bank, absolute civil weights sum to 320. Each selected five-point multiplier is applied to the statement’s signed effects, including cross-axis effects. The civil sum is normalized to its possible range and displayed to one decimal place; Authority complements it to 100. Seventy valid responses are required. Missing answers remain incomplete rather than becoming neutral. Percentages are not population percentiles, confidence estimates or thresholds validated for political classification.
Edition and limits
English items and weights are adapted from the identified MIT-licensed revision. Chinese wording is this edition’s translation, without independent equivalence validation. The reading guide is original and carries no upstream or IDRlabs endorsement. No automatic ideology or voting recommendation is produced, and public sharing contains a general link without private responses or percentages. Keep the four axes separate and the result tied to this particular attempt.