CoreOpinion is a political compass platform built to encourage political self-awareness and critical thinking. Rather than relying purely on abstract, survey-style statements (such as "Governments should tax the rich"), we present a balanced mix of direct policy questions and core ideological statements, then map your answers against real-world party platforms.
Our Mission
In a highly polarized political landscape, we believe that understanding why you agree or disagree with a political stance is just as important as the stance itself. Two people can give the same answer for completely different reasons, and most tests cannot tell those people apart. We try to.
Our aim is to give you a clear, honestly constructed picture of where you sit and why, without steering you toward a conclusion.
How the Test Is Built
Every question has to pass three checks before it ships. It must describe a real policy position that some significant party or movement actually holds, rather than a strawman. It must be answerable by someone who does not follow politics closely. And it must have a plausible case on both sides, so that agreeing never feels like the obviously correct answer.
Questions are scored on two axes. The economic axis runs from collective provision and redistribution to private ownership and market allocation. The governance axis runs from individual liberty and pluralism to collective order and state authority. Each answer moves your position by a weighted amount rather than a flat step, because some positions are far more diagnostic than others.
The country-specific tests are not translations of one another. Each is built against the parties and live political debates of that country, because "the left" in Sweden and "the left" in the United States describe different things.
The Framing Bias Engine
A central feature of CoreOpinion is our cognitive framing bias engine. We pair the same underlying policy with different rhetorical framings, one emphasising its intended benefit and one emphasising its costs or trade-offs. If your answers shift substantially between the two, that gap is measurable, and we report it back to you as a bias score.
A high score is not a failing grade. It indicates that your response to a policy depends heavily on how it was presented to you, which is useful to know when reading campaign material or news coverage. Most people show some framing sensitivity. The point is to see your own.
Editorial and Sourcing Standards
Our party and ideology guides are written in-house in a neutral reference style. We describe what a movement believes and how it argues for itself, rather than assessing whether it is right.
Every party profile links to the party's own material alongside independent references such as Wikipedia and Ballotpedia, so you can check us and go deeper. Where a party is internally divided, we say so rather than flattening it into a single position. Where we place a party on the compass, that placement is our editorial judgement based on its published platform and voting record, and we present it as approximate.
Political facts go stale. Leadership changes, parties split, platforms get rewritten. If you find something out of date or wrong, tell us on the contact page and we will check it and correct the page.
Who We Are and How This Is Funded
CoreOpinion is built by a small independent team of political researchers, software developers, and designers, and is owned and operated by Webbitar. We receive no funding from any political party, candidate, campaign, or lobbying group, and we have never been paid to place, promote, or soften a position.
The site is free to use. It is supported by advertising and by affiliate commissions on the books we recommend, which means we may earn a commission if you buy through those links, at no extra cost to you. Advertisers have no input into our questions, our scoring, or our editorial content, and we do not accept sponsored placements in the party or ideology guides.
What This Test Cannot Tell You
A two-axis compass is a simplification. Real political belief is messier than any pair of numbers, and people hold positions that are internally inconsistent or that shift with circumstance. Your result is a snapshot of how you answered a finite set of questions on one particular day.
We do not claim the test is a validated psychometric instrument, and it has not been externally validated as one. It is a tool for reflection and comparison, not a diagnosis, and it should not be treated as one.
Privacy
You can take any test without creating an account. Results are only stored if you choose to save or share one, and we do not sell personal data. The full detail is in our privacy policy.
Contact Us
Questions, corrections, research inquiries, and feedback are all welcome. You can reach us at contact@webbitar.com, or see the contact page for the best route and what to expect.