Comparison modes

Who you can hold your result up against: a friend, or an orientation.

Decision: ⚪ idea

Design: Figma

Context

Comparison mode is the second tab of the result screen, and it starts with one choice: compare with a friend, or compare with an orientation.

• With a friend - each side has a result identifier. You copy yours, they copy theirs, and pasting one in pairs the two results. Nothing is looked up by name, and nobody is searchable.
• With an orientation - a searchable list of everything the quiz scores, so the taker can hold their answers against progressivism, the free market, a party or a candidate.

What each mode can show:

• A friend gives both - results comparison across every module, and answers comparison question by question.
• An orientation gives answers only - an orientation has no result of its own to overlay, so only the question-by-question view applies.
• Either way an agreement score appears - see agreement info, which stays on screen for as long as the comparison lasts.

Opportunity

• Comparison is the social half of the product - a result is worth reading once, and worth arguing about repeatedly.
• Identifiers keep it private - no friend graph, no accounts to find, no directory of people's politics. The exchange happens in a chat we never see.
• Orientation mode has no second person - it works for a taker with nobody to compare against, which is most takers.
• It reuses every module - comparison is an overlay on what is already drawn, not a second result screen.
• It answers the question people actually ask - "am I more X than you" is the reason results get shared at all.

Risk

• An identifier is a bearer token - whoever holds it can see that result, and people will paste it into public places.
• Pairing is unequal - the person who pastes sees the comparison first, and the other may never see it at all.
• Comparing with an orientation invites a scoreboard reading - "95% progressive" becomes a label, not a comparison.
• Two modes on one tab is a decision before a payoff - the taker has to pick a mode before seeing anything interesting.
• A friend's result is someone else's sensitive data - once compared, it has been shown to a second person, and no consent flow made that explicit.