Political Coordinates
Where each type stands on the compass.
Where people put themselves
One dot per person. The sample leans libertarian-left.
- Authoritarian Left11%
- Authoritarian Right20%
- Libertarian Left44%
- Libertarian Right25%
n = 307
The axis
Types differ along one political line, right-authoritarian at one end and left-libertarian at the other.
Reach is how well a sociotype predicts a placement in that direction.
What each axis marks
Mostly a Quadra split and an Activity Orientation.
| right | authoritarian | |
|---|---|---|
| Extraversion·Introversion | +0.16 | +0.08 |
| Intuiting·Sensing | −0.37 | −0.18 |
| Thinking·Feeling | +0.27 | +0.12 |
| Perceiving·Judging | −0.13 | −0.20 |
| Mutualism·Antagonism | −0.32 | −0.23 |
| Passionarism·Transactionalism | −0.19 | +0.00 |
| Invariant Stability·Contextual Lability | +0.15 | +0.12 |
| Repulsion·Fusion | −0.15 | −0.07 |
| Hor. Individualism·Ver. Collectivism | −0.20 | −0.25 |
| Positive Focus·Negative Focus | −0.03 | −0.06 |
| Elaborating·Satisficing | +0.06 | +0.13 |
| Affective Gravity·Affective Buoyancy | −0.16 | +0.02 |
| Aff. Openness·Aff. Guardedness | −0.09 | −0.03 |
| Granular Perception·Gist Perception | −0.17 | +0.10 |
| Field Coupling·Field Decoupling | −0.09 | −0.16 |
Green means the named pole leans right, or authoritarian; red the opposite.
Functions
Se and Ne are the two ends of the line.
| Ni | Ne | Si | Se | Ti | Te | Fi | Fe | Qi | Qe | Di | De | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| right | −0.17 | −0.38 | −0.05 | +0.40 | +0.19 | +0.33 | −0.20 | −0.19 | −0.23 | +0.09 | +0.07 | +0.10 |
| authoritarian | −0.09 | −0.26 | −0.12 | +0.20 | +0.15 | +0.16 | −0.06 | −0.02 | −0.15 | +0.11 | +0.10 | +0.00 |
Where each type lands
Each type's average placement on the compass.
Types differ about twice as much left–right as on authority.
| quadra | left–right | authority |
|---|---|---|
| Alpha | −21.9 | −12.7 |
| Beta | +20.8 | +15.0 |
| Gamma | +24.3 | +11.5 |
| Delta | −11.3 | −12.9 |
Quadra members differ far more than the quadras do.
Out of every ten
How many landed in each corner.
| AuthoritarianLeft | AuthoritarianRight | LibertarianLeft | LibertarianRight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| all | 1.1 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 2.5 |
| ILE | 1.3 | 1.0 | 5.5 | 2.3 |
| LII | 1.1 | 1.3 | 5.3 | 2.4 |
| SEI | 0.8 | 0.9 | 5.8 | 2.5 |
| ESE | 1.0 | 2.4 | 4.8 | 1.8 |
| SLE | 0.6 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 2.9 |
| LSI | 0.8 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 3.1 |
| IEI | 1.3 | 0.9 | 5.5 | 2.3 |
| EIE | 1.5 | 1.5 | 5.2 | 1.9 |
| SEE | 0.8 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 2.6 |
| ESI | 1.3 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 1.7 |
| ILI | 0.9 | 2.0 | 4.1 | 2.9 |
| LIE | 0.8 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| IEE | 1.1 | 1.3 | 5.4 | 2.2 |
| EII | 1.2 | 1.0 | 5.9 | 1.9 |
| SLI | 0.7 | 1.2 | 4.7 | 3.4 |
| LSE | 0.6 | 4.0 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
Shaded where a type beats the sample's own rate in that corner.
How it was measured
About 560 people placed themselves on the political compass and took the socionics assessment. Careless and unfinished entries were dropped. Split the rest at random and both halves give the same picture.