Cutline · an open political typology
Cutline is named for the thing it makes visible. The personality-test format is right about one thing and wrong about the other. It is right that people sit on several independent axes at once. It is wrong that a midpoint is a border. This instrument does both: it gives you a four-letter type, then shows you the margin it used to hand you each letter.
The video ran the instrument once and read the result out — including the letter that was decided by four points. Now answer the twenty-four statements yourself and see your own margins.
Twenty-four statements. Agree or disagree on a five-point scale. Six statements feed each of four axes — the site's usual two, plus two more that the left/right line flattens just as badly.
The first two letters are the quadrant you already know from the map. The second two split each quadrant into four. That is the whole trick behind every sixteen-type system ever sold to you: two more axes, nothing mystical.
Your type
Here is what the four letters cost you. Each bar is your actual position on a continuous axis. The vertical line is the cut point that assigned the letter. Nothing about that line exists in the data — it is where somebody decided to slice.
The reading
The first two letters are just your position on the site's 2×2. Same axes, same grid, same argument — the type code is a label stuck on a point that was always continuous.
Open the full list of all sixteen types →
Columns split by ownership, then horizon. Rows split by control, then method. The four quadrants of the map are still there — each one cut into four. Tap any box to read it.
Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.
Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.
A four-letter code is a compression. It throws away the magnitude and keeps the sign. Two people with the same code can sit at opposite ends of the same box, and a person two points from a cut line shares more with the type across that line than with their own. The code is a conversation starter, not a description of you. That is true here, and it is true of every other four-letter system — the difference is that this one shows you the arithmetic.
Open source
MBTI is a trademark. Using it properly means licensing it, per seat, from a company that certifies practitioners. The format it made famous — several independent axes collapsed into four letters — is not anyone's property, and it shouldn't behave as though it is.
So Cutline is published in full: the four axes, all twenty-four statements with their exact weights, the scoring procedure, and the sixteen type definitions. It is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Fork it, translate it, run it commercially, build a better front end than this one. The single condition is share-alike — a derivative stays under the same licence, so it cannot be closed again.
It would be a strange thing to argue that the left/right line flattens political reality, and then charge admission to the alternative.