How this was made
A quiz that tells people what they believe has to be fair to beliefs its author does not hold. This page is the working, in public.
The promise
Every position on the Compass is described in words its own holders would accept. No band adjective names a rival tradition, flatters one side, or belittles the other. Nothing is invented: positions are traced to a confession, a council, or a standard work, and both poles of every axis are stated by someone who holds them.
The audit
Twenty adversarial reviewers read the instrument, each briefed to find where it was unfair to a particular tradition or simply wrong. They raised 522 findings. Each was then put through three independent verification lenses — is it accurate, is it a genuine fairness problem, and is the change necessary — and 424 were kept and applied, including all 42 rated as blockers.
Six tradition families were added during the audit because the original list did not represent them, bringing the map to 18. A further 11 findings were considered and deliberately not applied; that log is kept rather than quietly dropped.
The test that has to pass
The audit produced 18 answer sheets — one filled in as a well-catechised member of each tradition would answer it. The instrument only works if each sheet lands on its own tradition. All 18 do, at 87–95% match.
That check runs automatically before anything ships, against both the quiz engine and the original demo page, which implement the scoring independently. If a change to the wording or the scoring quietly moved someone's result, the build fails.
What the numbers mean, and do not mean
- A match percentage is distance on the map, expressed against the widest gap between any two listed traditions. It is not a claim about how good a Christian anyone is.
- Axes near the middle name no position. A midpoint is not a conviction, so the headline only reports axes that actually lean.
- If nothing is close, the result says so rather than forcing a label. Answering “Unsure” throughout names no tradition at all.
- The listed traditions are a sketch of where typical adherents land, not official teaching, and not a complete list of Christian traditions.
Your answers
Every quiz is scored in your browser. Answers are never sent to a server, there is no account and no email, and nothing is stored. A result link carries only your scores, encoded — which is also why a broken link cannot be recovered.