How Compare finds the common ground between two political genomes

Your own result names you. Set it beside someone else's and you get something more useful than a name: the actual distance between two ways of reading politics. That's what Compare measures. Not "what am I," but "where do the two of us meet, and where are we going to pull apart?"

It's built for the people you already argue with. A partner. A sibling. The parent you've learned not to raise politics with over dinner. You each take the DNA Scan, and Compare reads both genomes for the values you really share, the tensions worth naming out loud, and a few concrete ways to talk across them.

None of this is a verdict on whether you'll get along. It's a map of the ground between two worldviews, built from the same four-dimension model that scored each of you alone.

• Agreements — the core values your two archetypes actually hold in common
• Tensions — the places your instincts genuinely part ways
• Bridge tips — practical footing for talking across those tensions

Compare needs two results. Paste a friend's share code and the comparison loads immediately. Or send an invite link, let them take the quiz, and it renders for both of you the moment they finish. Once both codes resolve, the scoring math runs right in your browser in a fraction of a second — the comparison itself is just arithmetic on two results already in hand.

The score blends three inputs: how adjacent your two archetype families are, how closely your four dimension scores line up, and how much your underlying belief themes overlap. Family closeness and dimensional similarity carry equal, larger weight; shared beliefs make up the rest. No hidden moral or personality term sits underneath it. The formula reads straight off the same distribution your result already shows you, and you could check the arithmetic by hand.

The four dimensions doing the work are the ones behind every DNA Scan result: how much room the individual gets against the state, how free or managed the economy runs, whether you put the nation or the wider world first, and where you land on tradition versus change. Compare measures the gap between your scores on each axis and turns the pattern into plain-language agreements and tensions. You never have to squint at two bar charts and guess what they mean together.

When two people land on the same archetype, Compare switches tack. There's no distance to measure, so it draws out what you both believe and where you come from instead: the thinkers you share, the tradition behind you, the plain fact of being the same political strain.

The headline is a compatibility percentage, sorted into four honest tiers: strong overlap, moderate overlap, significant divergence, deep divergence. A high number means your families sit close and your dimensions track together. A low one means both diverge sharply, and the bridge tips shift to match.

Under the headline, your two genomes sit side by side, axis by axis. That's where you see which dimension is actually driving the agreement or the friction. The percentage gives you the shape of the relationship. The panel tells you where that shape comes from.

Read the tensions as invitations, not indictments. Two people at 40 percent who know exactly which axes divide them are in better shape than two at 80 percent who've never named the thing they quietly disagree on. The bridge tips are written for the low-overlap pairs.

The number is built from each person's primary archetype, the single strongest result. Your full distributions are right there on the page, but the headline reads only the top of each curve. So two people whose primaries differ while their runner-ups nearly match can score lower than the overlap actually feels. That's the price of reading from the peak instead of the whole curve, and it's real.

It maps political instinct. It doesn't forecast a relationship. Lining up on four dimensions says nothing about whether you'll be happy together or make it through a holiday dinner in one piece. Plenty of couples thrive across deep political divergence. Compare is built to help with that conversation, not to grade the odds.

Compare only reads what a result already makes public: archetype, family, dimension scores, the top of the distribution. It never touches an email or an account, and it stores nothing. Every comparison is recomputed from scratch the moment it's opened, so an old shared link always reflects the current model instead of some stale saved answer. The one hard requirement is a valid share code from each person.