Liberty
Higher Liberty scores emphasize civil liberties, democracy, and limits on intervention in personal lives.
Axis guide
8values Civil Axis: Liberty vs Authority
The Civil axis shows how 8values reads answers about civil liberties, personal autonomy, order, surveillance, and state intervention.
What the Civil axis measures
The Civil axis concerns the relationship between people and state power in personal and political life. It is separate from the Economic axis: support for economic regulation and support for civil restrictions do not have to move together.
That separation helps a result show whether a user leans toward civil liberty, stronger authority, or a mixed stance across the quiz statements.
The two values
Authority
Higher Authority scores emphasize stronger state power, order, surveillance, censorship, or control depending on the direction of quiz answers.
Reading a Civil result
The results page displays Liberty directly and Authority as the complementary percentage. Axis labels summarize ranges, while the number shows where the result landed inside the range.
Compare the Civil score with Economic and Societal scores before assuming one policy preference explains the whole profile.
Example interpretation
A high Liberty result usually means answers favored personal autonomy, due process, speech, and limits on state coercion. A high Authority result usually means answers favored order, enforcement, surveillance, or stronger state direction. Mixed scores can reflect different views on public safety, democracy, and individual rights.