Tradition
Higher Tradition scores emphasize established values, moral continuity, religion for some users, and preservation of existing or earlier social arrangements.
Axis guide
8values Societal Axis: Tradition vs Progress
The Societal axis describes how quiz answers lean between continuity with established norms and willingness to pursue social change.
What the Societal axis measures
Societal politics can involve moral codes, religion, science, environmental action, reform, and attitudes toward the status quo. 8values uses Tradition and Progress to summarize how answers move across those statements.
The result is directional. It does not decide whether every change is good or every inherited norm should be preserved.
The two values
Progress
Higher Progress scores emphasize social change, rational inquiry, science, research, and reform in the direction defined by the quiz.
Reading a Societal result
The results page displays Progress directly and Tradition as the complementary percentage. A result near the center often reflects mixed answers or issues that pull in different directions.
Use the Societal score with the Civil axis when you want to distinguish views about social norms from views about state power.
Example interpretation
A high Progress result usually means answers favored social reform, scientific inquiry, and willingness to revise inherited norms. A high Tradition result usually means answers favored continuity, established moral codes, religion, or skepticism toward rapid change. Centered scores often show selective support for both stability and reform.