Count the people around you

A dinner table, a club, a campus walkway, a newsletter, a class. Anywhere there are people who have never had a word for what they think, the quiz can count them, and you can be the one who runs it.

10statements, answered Agree, Maybe or Disagree

2minutes for a room to be counted

1host account covers sessions, booths and embeds

Three ways to run it

Pick by where the people are. Every one of them ends with a chart of the group you counted, and every dot in it joins the count.

1A room, liveSessions. Share a six-letter join code. People answer on their phones. You watch the chart fill in on the screen and show it to the room when you are ready. For a dinner, a meeting, a club, a class, a conference panel. 2A crowd walking byBooths. Set up a table where people pass, print the poster with the QR code, and talk. Passersby take the quiz on their own phone and see their result on the spot, and the conversation starts from where they landed. The Operation Politically Homeless booth, with the QR code in place of the clipboard. 3Your own readersEmbeds. Drop the quiz into your site, newsletter page or forum. Readers take it without leaving, the results stream to your dashboard as they come in, and every reader who leaves an email is a lead you keep. The best lead generator a writer, a podcaster or a group can put on a page.

Who do you want to count?Apply to host the quizOne account covers all three.

How a session goes

The live version, step by step. Nothing to install.

Start a session and get a join code.
Six letters, shown on a screen or read aloud. KQ7MDA
People join on any device and answer the ten statements.
Two minutes. Answers are anonymous unless a participant chooses to leave contact details.
Watch the chart fill in.
Every person is a dot landing on the diamond. You can keep it hidden until everyone is done.
Reveal the room to itself.
Then show them the country. The gap between what the room calls itself and where it landed is usually the conversation.

What a host sees

The rules are the same for a teacher, a volunteer and a writer.

AlwaysThe group's chart, the counts by type, and the same aggregate figures this site publishes.

Only if the person choosesA participant who leaves their contact details becomes a name the host can follow up with. Everyone else stays anonymous: the host sees their dot, never who it belongs to.

Made for classrooms

A three-day unit built and field-tested by a Michigan AP Government teacher, around AP Government Unit 4 and the Michigan civics standard on political ideology.

1SocializationStudents take the one-page quiz home for a parent to answer, then take it themselves. Where do the two land, and why?

2MeasurementThe left-to-right line versus the diamond. A live session with the class, then the argument about whether two axes beat one.

3Five ideologiesEach region gets a spokesperson. The class chart is the evidence for who is in the room.

The educator guideThree days, objectives, standards hooks, discussion questions, a one-period short form. PDF. One-page quizThe ten statements and the scoring grid on one printable sheet. PDF. The live chartThe national count, embeddable in a class page or LMS with one line.

Made for booths

Operation Politically Homeless has run booths on campuses and at fairs for decades. The guides are ready to print, and the QR poster replaces the clipboard.

Host guideSetting up, what to say, what not to, how to end the conversation with the quiz rather than an argument. PDF. Quick startOne page for a volunteer who has never done it. PDF. Student and campus guideRunning a booth with a student group as host. PDF.

The state pages show what each booth and session added. Find your state.