The Political Compass Reloaded
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, December 9 2005 06:16
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Alex's thread reminded me that we haven't had one of these in quite a while - as near as I can determine, not since the last prune, because I can't find one on the board now. Anyway, you know the deal. Take this test and post your result. And if you can avoid complaining about how the test isn't accurate, avoid it. I didn't make it. Indeed, there are a lot of other tests, some of which are better. If you know of one, link it. :) --- Economic Left/Right: -9.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62 --- I appear to be slipping; as little as a year ago I had under -9 on both of these. If this continues, perhaps one day I'm going to vote conservative. I feel sick. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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BANNED
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written Friday, December 9 2005 06:34
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-10,-8.5 -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Friday, December 9 2005 06:36
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I would consider myself a strict authoritarian. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, December 9 2005 07:43
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*Economic Left/Right: -8.50 *Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38 Which is exactly what I would have expected. -------------------- And when you want to Live How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to know? Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00 |
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Master
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written Friday, December 9 2005 08:12
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Economic Left/Right: -2.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.33 Which is not really what you might have expected, but not that much different than last time. -------------------- -ben4808 Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Skip to My Lou
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written Friday, December 9 2005 08:30
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Economic Left/Right: -1.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.31 -------------------- Take the Personality Test! Deep down, you wish you were a stick figure. Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, December 9 2005 09:09
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Economic Left/Right: -8.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.26 I've moved left economically. Spiderweb is still an influence, and I leave it to you to call it good or bad. —Alorael, who still thinks the difference is decisiveness. He hardly chooses any "agree" or "disagree" options where he can feel strongly instead. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, December 9 2005 09:21
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Left 3.38 Down 2.62 *this message sponsored by alcoa* -------------------- quote: Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
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written Friday, December 9 2005 09:21
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-4.75, -0.67 For these forums, objectivist and authoritarian. For the real world, it's somewhat inaccurate - I wouldn't put myself below zero, and not that far left. I don't think I've ever seen a score past +1.00, by the way... -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon Polaris = joy. In case of emergency, break glass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, December 9 2005 10:44
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Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -8.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79 Hm... I'm not surprised. And I see a trend amongst us here... -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, December 9 2005 10:54
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quote:What the heck, ben? Is the bad influence of Spiderweb turning you into a communist? :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Friday, December 9 2005 11:45
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Economic Left/Right: -7.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.26 Very similar to my scores in the past. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, December 9 2005 11:58
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quote:Sh... Aran, don't betray the mission, or he'll never bow down to Lenin! :D -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, December 9 2005 12:25
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Economic Left/Right: -7.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.74 Just as I knew it would be -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Friday, December 9 2005 12:29
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Economic Left/Right: -2.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82 I've moved pretty far right and up. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy Encyclopedia Ermariana - Trapped in the Closet ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Mongolian Barbeque
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written Friday, December 9 2005 12:48
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There's a much simpler quiz at http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html. It takes a lot less time, and gives a score very similar to the Political Compass'. The questions here are also easier to understand — some of them over at the Compass were badly phrased, or I couldn't figure out what they were asking — and allows for a "Maybe" choice in addition to the "Agree" or "Disagree" options. In any questionaire there are always gray areas which I'm not comfortable answering without the "Maybe" option. I got about the same results at both places. Posts: 907 | Registered: Monday, July 15 2002 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, December 9 2005 13:19
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-3.38,-3.13 -------------------- Important Information about Stuff Posts: 258 | Registered: Wednesday, March 9 2005 08:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Friday, December 9 2005 13:21
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The self-gov polls is perhaps one of the worst I have found on the web. At least the creators of the poll make no attempts to hide their interests. A couple issues I have with it are: 1) Answering all 'yes' yields a libertarian worldview. People are, overall, more likely to agree than disagree with a question. It's part of human nature. 2) The questions use loaded words like "censor", "corporate welfare", "barriers", etc. A good poll should try to make the questions phrased as neutrally as possible. What is worse is that the wording pushes toward the bias of the creators of the poll. I agree, the original quiz should be improved, but at least they try to word questions in an objective way and are fairly evenhanded in the yes-no responses. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, December 9 2005 13:42
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Stug started this topic during the elections, IIRC. Economic Left/Right: -3.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.90 I'm near the Dali Lama and Nelson Mandela. -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. :ph34r: Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, December 9 2005 14:01
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Economic Left/Right: -7.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69 -------------------- Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes (March 25, 1998) "Asians are good at Starcraft because they're always squinting, thus they can see things sharply. Remember to always squint in war." ~ Sun-Tzu Posts: 215 | Registered: Sunday, April 7 2002 08:00 |
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Mongolian Barbeque
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written Friday, December 9 2005 14:47
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Actually, I found the questions at Political Compass very slanted. There were several questions that no matter how you answered it, you ended up giving an answer you didn't want to give. EDIT: The Compass also had terminology that made clear the views of the people who created it. They hit my nerves, so I guess the makers' views of the other quiz hit your nerves because they were the opposite of the Compass. I also find it difficult to accept that somebody might end up being "accidentally" libertarian because they're disinclined to actually read the question and answer it honestly and instead just go down the row clicking "Agree," "Agree," "Agree." Good grief! Look at us! I've heard people bickering about politics, but never about political quizes... [ Friday, December 09, 2005 15:21: Message edited by: IRA Witch Herd ] Posts: 907 | Registered: Monday, July 15 2002 07:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Friday, December 9 2005 16:20
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I agree the questions at Political Compass are not perfect, I never said they were. However, there is more balance in those questions as they at least attempt to alternate between making one "side" sound positive and then doing the fair thing with the other. It is true that some questions are poorly worded, but they do keep some balance to all sides. The libertarian one makes NO attempt to do this whatsoever and clearly uses one sided language for ALL of the questions. As far as everyone answering agree, that's not the point. It's a game of numbers, and anyone with any political education knows this. They aren't stupid over there and probably well versed in the intricacies of setting up such polls. I know for a fact this unsavory practice is indeed taught in many poli sci programs. The point being, that these subtle things like "yes" answers add up. Especially when your sample of questions is so low, having an extra one or two a certain way makes a big difference in the final result. Also, I contend it is not possible to answer all the questions honestly when such loaded words are used. For example, the word "corporate welfare" or "government handouts" carries such a stigma with it that most people will oppose it. If I phrase it "federal financial assistance programs for businesses", we have essentially asked the exact same question, but I am willing to bet more people would support it. The fact is "financial assistance programs" ARE "corporate welfare" and "government handouts". [ Friday, December 09, 2005 16:24: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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E Equals MC What!!!!
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written Friday, December 9 2005 16:29
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I consider myself to be fairly centrist. Edit: Yup. Economic Left/Right: 1.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.41 Of course, that makes me a rabid right winger here. [ Friday, December 09, 2005 17:04: Message edited by: Ash Lael ] -------------------- SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice. Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00 |
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Master
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written Friday, December 9 2005 23:33
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I have roughly the same score as Nelson Mandela. I'm too tired to take the test at the moment -_- -------------------- Polaris - owns you. Undead Theories - double U slash E Posts: 3323 | Registered: Thursday, April 25 2002 07:00 |
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Master
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written Saturday, December 10 2005 00:39
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The Political Compass Economic Left/Right: -2.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.97 Its not really diffrent then what it was once. I have just become a bit more leftist and I'm more of a libertarian. First I was more of a Authoritarian... hmmm... -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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