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This quick quiz tells you how liberal you are

(Or conservative.)

Peter Kafka covers media and technology, and their intersection, at Vox. Many of his stories can be found in his Kafka on Media newsletter, and he also hosts the Recode Media podcast.

You contain multitudes. You zag, and then you zig. You are a free thinker whose political views can’t easily be contained in a box, right?

That’s what I thought, too.

Then I took this 11-question survey from Pew Research.

It’s composed of questions like this:

And it took me a couple minutes, tops, to finish.

Pew’s answer: As far as the rest of America is concerned, I’m hanging out with Karl Marx.

Pew’s interactive chart includes helpful buttons that allow you to see how you compare to people of the same race, age, gender, etc. Which really drives it home.

Pew’s methodology is here. And once you’re there, check out the rest of its research, which includes eye-popping surveys on stuff like the gender gap among Hillary Clinton’s supporters.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.