Perception Gap Quiz
How you feel vs. how the principles score it — a 14-item self-check.
What this is. We show you 14 real things the U.S. government has recently done — bills, executive orders, Supreme Court rulings. You rate each one on a seven-point scale from strongly opposeStrongly oppose this action (−3) to strongly supportStrongly support this action (+3). Then we reveal how each action scored against the five founding principlesLiberty, Equality Before the Law, Consent of the Governed, Limited & Divided Power, Rule of Law — the structural values from the Constitution and Federalist Papers.. The gap between the two is what the quiz is actually measuring.
You will not get a score. There is no pass or fail, no leaderboard, no points. The product is a mirror, not a grade.
For the scholar: how the gap is computed
Your seven-point Likert rating is normalized to the interval [−1, +1]. For each principle the action has been evaluated against, we compute the absolute difference between your normalized rating and the principle's ternary scoreTernary score: +1 the action advances the principle; 0 no clear evidence in either direction; −1 the action moves away from the principle. (+1 / 0 / −1). We average those absolute differences per principle, weight each action by its rp_action_weight, and surface the largest gaps.
The actor's party label is strippedfrom every item during the rating phase and only revealed on the result page. That is deliberate. A structurally identical action must score the same regardless of who did it (CORE_VALUES Part 1 §1, Independent Integrity). If it doesn't, that is our bug, not yours.
Low-confidence evaluations are counted but flagged. When the result shows a big gap on a principle backed entirely by medium-confidenceMedium confidence — the evidence leans in this direction but is not yet overwhelming. See /methodology#confidence. evaluations, the result page says so out loud. We do not silently treat low confidence as high (Overhaul Rule 11).
Ready when you are. Takes about 4 minutes.
Item set version 1.0.0 · methodology 2.0.0 · 14 items · how scoring works · the six principles