this test is 75% redundant and only measures the scale of conservative vs liberal

[milahu]

redundancy is a problem with many tests, like MBTI or big-five

in my understanding, all the 8value questions only measure one single scale:

conservative politics	liberal politics
sedentary culture, tribalism?	nomadic culture
military government [fire]	weak government [water]
weak citizens [earth]	military citizens [air]
guns are privilege [fire]	guns for all [air]
drugs are privilege [fire]	drugs for all [air]
regional tourism	global tourism
local self-sufficiency, grow your own, eat regional+seasonal food	global trade, import exotic food from far away
anti migration	pro migration
breed to stabilize one phenotype or "race", well-adapted to the local climate	breed to hybridize, inter-racial breeding
stability	variety
quality	diversity
primitive culture, low risk, high quality	high technology, high risk, high diversity
natural medicine	synthetic medicine, genetic engineering, transhumanism
traditional education [earth]	progressive education [air]
minority vote [fire]	majority vote [air]
majority makes poor decisions [earth]	minority makes poor decisions [water]
accumulate wealth, save money	distribute wealth, spend money
sexual monogamy [fire]	sexual liberty, bisexual [air]
mesomorph	endomorph + ectomorph = extramorph
many strong small states	few weak large states
competition of states	union of states
two class society, local order	classless society, local chaos
religious, monotheism, one god [fire]	atheist, polytheism, many gods [air]
low tax	high tax, eat the rich
private schools	public schools
private insurance	public insurance
exchange economy, market	gift economy, steal and donate
some humans are better	all humans are equal
some cultures are better	all cultures are equal
practical	rational [carl jung]
concrete	abstract [david keirsey]
cycloThymia	schizoThymia [Ernst Kretschmer]
vagotonia	sympatheticotonia
rest + digest	fight + flight
depressed	manic

in terms of Milton Rokeach and the classical four elements and Hans Eysenck two-factor terminology (extraversion + psychoticism)

conservative politics	liberal politics
communism + capitalism	socialism + nazism
fire + earth	air + water
satan + belial	lucifer + leviathan
equality-authority + difference-freedom	equality-freedom + difference-authority
extravert-psychotic + introvert-neurotic	extravert-neurotic + introvert-psychotic
young-masculine + old-feminine	young-feminine + old-masculine
son + mother	daughter + father
matriarchy [earth = mother]	patriarchy [water = father]

in a two-factor-model with the two orthogonal factors equality and freedom, the two conservative types [fire + earth] share the same diagonal, and the two liberal types [air + water] share the other diagonal.

x	young	old
masculine	fire	water
feminine	air	earth

in theory, there are five types of questions, five scales to measure:

1. conservative vs liberal = fire+earth vs air+water = diagonal, angle
2. inner age = young vs old = fire+air vs earth+water
3. inner gender = feminine vs masculine = earth+air vs fire+water
4. fire-ness = fire vs air+water vs earth, could be called "dominance"
5. air-ness = william sheldon scale = endo vs meso vs ecto, could be called "optimism"

the current 8values test pretends to give four scales, but really gives just one scale.

edit - related to issue #69