How well do you really know the other side?
Most of us think people who disagree with us are more extreme and less reasonable than they actually are. Assumptions gives you a score for how close you get, and a way to practice until it improves.
No public feed. No follower count. iPhone and Android.
Assumption accuracy
You guessed how people on the other side weigh this issue. Here is where you were close and where you were not.
Your score moves when you understand someone, not when you out-argue them.
How it works
Predict. Compare. Practice.
Say what you think they believe
Pick an issue you have opinions about. Before you argue anything, put down what you think people on the other side actually think, and why.
See how close you got
Real representative views come back next to your guess. The gap between the two is the whole lesson, and it is usually bigger than people expect.
Practice the conversation
Talk it through with a discussion partner that argues the other position with its real reasoning, at Gentle, Balanced, or Rigorous. Nobody is watching.
Features
Understanding, treated as a skill you can measure.
Assumption Challenges
Predict how the other side sees a real issue, then see representative views of what they actually said. Being wrong is the useful part.
Assumption Accuracy Score
One number that tracks how well you read people who disagree with you. It moves slowly, which is the point.
Discussions at three levels
Gentle, Balanced, or Rigorous. The opposing view is argued the way a thoughtful person on that side would argue it, not as a strawman you can knock down.
Daily Polls
One question a day, with a breakdown of how people across the moral spectrum answered it. Often the split is not where you would guess.
The Translator
Take your own argument and say it in someone else's moral language. This is the most practical exercise in the app, and the hardest.
PremiumMoral Foundations Profile
Find out which values you lean on and which ones barely register for you. Your blind spots, named.
PremiumThe goal is not to win. It is to be less wrong about people.
Most apps that touch politics are built to make you react. This one is built to make you check. That is a slower loop than winning an argument, and a more useful one.
Why it works
Built on research, and on leaving you alone.
Six moral foundations
Assumptions reads views through six values people weigh differently: care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity, and liberty. That framework comes from the moral psychology research popularized by Jonathan Haidt in The Righteous Mind, and it explains a lot of disagreement that otherwise looks like bad faith.
Assumptions is inspired by that research. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jonathan Haidt.
Nothing to perform for
There is no public feed, no follower count, and no ranking that rewards the hottest take. Your score is yours. Nobody else sees it, and there is no audience to play to, which turns out to be the condition under which people will admit they got something wrong.
You are also never labeled. Assumptions does not sort you into a side and then feed you accordingly.
Get the app
Free to download, on both stores.
Daily polls, discussions, and your accuracy score are free. Premium removes ads and opens up Assumption Challenges, The Translator, Today's News, and your Moral Foundations Profile.