Everything on these pages comes from people who took a CoreOpinion test. This page explains exactly what we store, what each measure means, who the people in the data are, and the limits you should keep in mind before quoting any of it.
What we collect
Before showing a result, the test asks a few optional questions: age band, gender, nationality, and for country tests, the party you feel closest to. Below them is a research consent box. The box starts unticked, and a result is saved for research only if you tick it before you continue. Leave it unticked and your answers are not saved for research, and you still see your full result. Until 23 September 2026 the box started ticked, so results saved before then include people who left the default in place.
A saved result contains the test you took, your position on the two compass axes, your framing bias score, your party alignment scores, and whichever of the optional answers you gave. It does not contain your name, and we do not store IP addresses with results. If you choose to email yourself a link to your result, a separate copy is stored with that address so the link keeps working, as our privacy policy explains. Those emailed copies are left out of these statistics entirely, so nobody is counted twice and nobody who unticked the research box is counted at all.
What the measures mean
Framing bias. Key positions in every test are asked twice: once described in terms of what they achieve, and once in terms of what they cost. Someone with perfectly fixed views would give mirror-image answers to the two versions. The framing bias score measures how far each person departs from that, on a scale from 0 to 100. A score of 0 means the wording made no difference at all. Higher scores mean the answer moved more with the wording.
Best-matching party. Each country test scores your answers against our reading of each main party's published platform and voting record, and reports the closest one. This is the party you are compared against in our party analysis. It measures agreement on policy only, not on leadership, record in office, or any of the other reasons people support a party.
Self-reported party. The optional question asking which party you feel closest to. It asks about affinity, not about how you voted.
Position on the compass. Every result places you on two axes: economic, from left to right, and social, from libertarian to authority. These pages show both on a scale from -100 to +100. We say someone leans to one side when they are more than 33 points from the centre, and treat everyone else as centre. Each country test measures positions against its own country's questions, so a position is relative to that test rather than to one global scale.
Topic stances. Each test groups its questions into topics such as immigration or healthcare, and a saved result includes a position for each topic. We use these only in aggregate, for example to see which topics divide men and women most.
Who is in the data
As of 7 November 2026, the data holds 48,555 saved results collected since 26 June 2026. 46,013 include an age band, 43,646 a gender, and 17,989 a party the test scores.
Show the data
| Test | Results | Share of all | Aged under 25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | 22,517 | 46.4% | 50% |
| Finland | 5,491 | 11.3% | 83% |
| General test | 5,161 | 10.6% | 79% |
| United States | 3,823 | 7.9% | 71% |
| United Kingdom | 2,476 | 5.1% | 69% |
| Australia | 1,637 | 3.4% | 55% |
| Spain | 1,316 | 2.7% | 69% |
| Italy | 1,097 | 2.3% | 69% |
| Canada | 1,073 | 2.2% | 64% |
| Germany | 802 | 1.7% | 64% |
| Austria | 548 | 1.1% | 69% |
| New Zealand | 517 | 1.1% | 28% |
| Ireland | 297 | 0.6% | 72% |
| Brazil | 252 | 0.5% | 71% |
| Sweden | 191 | 0.4% | 46% |
| Denmark | 189 | 0.4% | 82% |
| France | 173 | 0.4% | 63% |
One test dominates. Finland accounts for 11% of all results, and 83% of Finnish respondents who gave an age are under 25. Most of it arrived within a few weeks, which looks far more like use in classrooms than ordinary search traffic. We check the main findings with Finland removed, and say so where the result changes.
Show the data
| Month | All results | Finland | Other tests |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | 110 | 0 | 110 |
| July 2026 | 844 | 34 | 810 |
| August 2026 | 2,405 | 935 | 1,470 |
| September 2026 | 6,762 | 2,848 | 3,914 |
| October 2026 | 11,583 | 1,310 | 10,273 |
| November 2026 | 26,851 | 364 | 26,487 |
Show the data
| Age | All results | Finland | Other tests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 10,541 | 2,201 | 8,340 |
| 18 to 24 | 17,846 | 2,001 | 15,845 |
| 25 to 34 | 10,968 | 448 | 10,520 |
| 35 to 44 | 4,036 | 194 | 3,842 |
| 45 to 54 | 1,455 | 141 | 1,314 |
| 55 to 64 | 728 | 62 | 666 |
| 65 or older | 439 | 48 | 391 |
What the data cannot tell you
- It is not a poll. Nobody is sampled. People find the test and choose to take it, so the data describes CoreOpinion's test-takers, not any country's population. We do not weight the results to correct for that.
- It skews young. Most people who give an age are under 25, and under-18s are the largest single group.
- Country tests are not identical. Each country test is written around its own parties and debates, with its own questions. That makes comparisons of framing bias between countries loose rather than like-for-like, so we avoid ranking countries against each other on it.
- Test length varies. People choose a short, medium or long version. Shorter tests give each person's score less to go on, which adds noise, though it largely averages out across large groups.
- People can take the test more than once. We do not track individuals, so repeat attempts cannot be removed.
- Some answers are not serious. 237 results score 90 or above, the pattern you would expect from clicking at random. We leave them in rather than decide whose answers count. They make up 0.5% of all results.
- Answer style matters. Some people tend to agree with statements whichever way they point. On a test that asks positions both ways, that tendency shows up as framing bias.
How we report
Small groups are never shown. A country, age band, gender or other group appears only if it contains at least 100 people. A party within a country appears only with at least 50, and so does each side of a split inside one test, such as men and women in a single country. Topic comparisons need at least 30 people on each side within a test. This protects privacy and stops small, noisy groups from producing striking but meaningless numbers.
Uncertainty is shown, not hidden. Averages and proportions carry 95% intervals. When we say one group differs from another, the interval on the difference excludes zero. When it does not, we say that too.
Figures update, analysis is written. The numbers on these pages are recalculated from the database every week. The analysis around them is written and reviewed by the CoreOpinion editorial team. Each article's key claims are checked automatically against the new figures on every update, and any claim that stops holding is flagged for us to rewrite rather than left in place.
Only aggregates leave the database. The statistics pages are built from counts and averages alone. No individual result is ever published here.
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