What the 12Axes test can and cannot claim
A 12Axes result is a description of what you said, compared with positions that were written by hand. It is not a measurement of you, and it is not a verdict on anyone else.
The library is written, not measured
Every vector in the library is an editorial reading of a recorded position. Where a profile is a country, it describes a modelled constitutional tradition rather than how that country votes; where it is a person, it is read from what they wrote or did. Any of these readings can be argued with, and correcting one is treated as an improvement rather than an embarrassment.
A published page names the sources its prose relies on, and lists what it could not yet source instead of filling the gap.
Small differences carry no direction
A score inside ±12 is recorded as centred rather than as a lean, so two results that differ by a few points are not necessarily pointing different ways. The shorter versions draw fewer statements per axis, which makes any single answer count for more — that is a difference in resolution, not in what the axis means.
Answers describe what you said on the day you took it, not how you act or how you would decide a real question. The test has no way to check either.
What stays in your browser, and what does not
The test and its scoring run in your browser, and there is no account. Analytics (Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity) receive page views and product events, not your answers; the share code is stripped from any URL that is reported, so it is never sent as part of a tracked page view.
Sharing a result puts your twelve scores directly into the link, which means anyone you send it to can read them. The preview image for a shared link is generated on our servers from the scores in that URL.
Also in the method: How the statements were written · How a score is calculated · How the library match works.
See it applied to your own answers
The explanation above is what the result page does; taking the test is how to check it.