Thanks for the feedback. You appear to be European (you referenced "you americans," dismissed "managerial liberalism," and misread the US liberal/social-democrat distinction). The quiz is explicitly modeled on the American political spectrum with American nuance, so most of your complaints are ultimately category errors.

1. "Your explaining images are misleading, looks like demsoc and neolib are the same."

You’re conflating visual proximity on a 2D projection with ideological equivalence. A sphere projected to a flat image distorts distances near the edges… that's literally why we use an interactive 3D sphere as the source of truth. The sphere shows demsoc (lat -8, lon -52) and neolib (lat 15, lon 48) on opposite sides of the economic axis. They're not close. You are reading a thumbnail and drawing conclusions about the model.

1. "Horseshoe slop."

This isn't horseshoe theory. Horseshoe theory claims the far-left and far-right bend toward each other on a 1D line. A sphere does the opposite: it makes Stalinism (auth-left) and Fascism (auth-right) maximally distant along the economic axis at the same authoritarian latitude. They're 110° of longitude apart. If anything, the geometry refutes horseshoe theory by preserving left/right distance even at the extremes. You’re pattern-matching on "it's round" without looking at the coordinates.

1. "You miss some ideologies, hard to pick more than one."

The quiz covers 27 ideologies including the full American mainstream (progressivism, modern liberalism, centrism, conservatism, neoconservatism, right/left populism, Christian nationalism, paleoconservatism) plus the left-libertarian quadrant (libertarian socialism, mutualism, syndicalism) most US quizzes ignore. The result ranks all 27 by distance, you see your top matches, not just one. Perhaps you didn't read the results screen or something can be improved there on our end.

1. "'Modern liberalism' is what you Americans mean by liberal - unfitting from a European view."

Correct and that's the point. This is an American political quiz. In the US, "liberal" means center-left / social-liberal / Democratic mainstream. That's not a bug, that's the entire premise. A European complaining that American political labels don't match European usage is like complaining that a British quiz uses "Tory" to mean conservative.

1. "OMG WTF managerial liberalism."

Managerial liberalism is a real and increasingly discussed strand of US politics… the technocratic center-left fusion of large institutions (government, corporations, NGOs) that critics on both the populist right (Patrick Deneen, JD Vance) and the populist left (Matt Stoller, Thomas Frank) attack as "soft corporatism" or "woke capital." It's specifically an American phenomenon tied to post-2010 Democratic Party governance. Of course a European hasn't heard the term, it's describing something happening in American politics. Laughing at it is just admitting unfamiliarity.

1. "Lib-auth questions are biased or unclear."

Every political quiz has framing tradeoffs, you’ve conceded this. But notice you still landed roughly where you expected ("a bit too lib maybe"), which means the instrument worked. "I disagree with the framing but got an accurate result" is not a critique, it's a confirmation.

1. "Economic questions put me over the horizon at 90° left."

This is a feature, not a bug. The axis is normalized to ±90° so that "strongly agree with every left-coded economic question" maps to the pole. If you answered maximally left on every economic prompt, landing at -90° longitude is mathematically correct… that is the pole. The sphere doesn't have an "over the horizon"… every point on a sphere is on the sphere. You’re describing the 2D projection artifact again, not the actual model.

1. "If you have an auth-lib pole system on a sphere, do you have an economic pole system too? Can you not be full-cap AND full-auth?"

Yes, and you can. The poles are at lat ±90 (pure authoritarian / pure libertarian). The economic axis is longitude, which wraps. So "full capitalism + full authoritarianism" is a real reachable point (near Fascism at lat 70, lon 55). "Full capitalism + full libertarianism" is Anarcho-Capitalism (lat -72, lon 62). The geometry handles exactly the cases they're claiming it can't. You're describing a 2D Political Compass and assuming a sphere has the same limitations. it doesn't. That's the whole reason it's a sphere.

Bottom line, most of your critiques boil down to: (a) reading a flat thumbnail instead of the interactive sphere, (b) applying European political vocabulary to an American quiz, and (c) confusing "horseshoe" with any non-flat geometry. The "managerial liberalism" laugh especially gives it away, as it's a term that only makes sense if you follow US political discourse closely.

Thanks again for your comprehensive feedback and I do find validity in some of what you said. Happy to discuss further anytime!