How It Works
Purpose and governing rules
EthosGraph exists to make the value orientations of consequential entities legible and comparable. Two rules govern everything on the site. First, describe, never judge: every label and summary describes what an entity elevates or opposes, never whether that is good. Second, objectivity is asymptotic: the instrument pursues it through a fixed rubric, published boundaries, and auditable scoring, while being candid that no such instrument is neutral. Its defense is transparency, not a claim of accuracy.
The 22 dimensions
There are 14 values (what an entity treats as ends worth pursuing) and 8 principles (the rules it binds itself with). The set was chosen for breadth of coverage across moral and political traditions, not to encode any one ideology. Every entity is scored on all 22, on a scale from strong opposition (-3) to strong support (+3), with a genuine zero for balance, silence, or non-applicability.
How scoring works
Each entity is first scoped: a named slice with a mode (as stated, or as realized) and a time window, so that a doctrine and its practice are never blended into one profile. It is then scored one dimension at a time against the published rubric, with a boundary map that keeps neighboring dimensions from bleeding into each other. Bias is limited by these controls but cannot be eliminated; where a score rests on inference rather than documented evidence, that is recorded.
How results are presented
Each profile shows all 22 scores with plain-language anchor labels. Distance between any two profiles is a straightforward geometric difference across all 22 dimensions, rescaled to 0-100. Three contrast axes (Prescribed Order vs. Consented Order, Devotion vs. Discovery, Common Good vs. Personal Enterprise) summarize how the dimensions pull against each other; they are derived from the corpus, and every entity is placed on them.