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[Closed] Take the political compass test - you might be surprized (I was!!)

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[url= http://www.politicalcompass.org/test ]See where you are, politically speaking.[/url]

I just wonder how "safe" this test is, because it thinks i'm marginally libetarian and about a third of the way leaning towards the left. WHAT?? 😮


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 12:15 am
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i'm with ghandi and the dali lama!


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 12:29 am
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Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

Yeahp, I'm pretty much The Dalai Lama.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 12:43 am
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I'm a bit more authoritarian than Ghandi.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 12:44 am
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I seem to be to the left of the Dalai Lama 😯 . The graph pegged me as a strong libertarian lefty, apparently.

I always thought of myself as a centrist, with a just perceptible lean to the left. For all my faults at least I've not morphed into a right wing degenerate. Wahey!


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 12:53 am
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Bloody hell, I'm Ghandi's twin brother and I've always though of myself as have having tendencies to being Judge Dredd when it comes to the justice side of things.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 12:53 am
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Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.82

From what I could tell, I'm a proto commie with a strong distrust of state apparatus and the free market. Sounds confused...

Go me.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 12:58 am
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Are we all being totally honest filling this in?

Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15

I'd have expected to be far more to the right economically than that (maybe it's just that I'm further right than most of you lot). Not surprised to find I'm pretty libertarian though. The trouble is, I'm not totally convinced by their analysis at the end - is "no such thing as society" really more authoritarian that Nu-Labour?


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 1:08 am
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Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.23

IMO the DL and NM are authoritarians...


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 1:16 am
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Economic Left/Right: 1.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.05

I step on you maggots!

😆


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 3:10 am
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Economic Left/Right: 0.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82

Slightly more left wing economically than I expected.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 6:40 am
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I wazn't that zuprized with my rezultz, pegged me az a 1.12 right wing with a zlight libertarian leaning.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 6:46 am
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can't be arsed - here's mine from last time round:

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/23823661@N05/2915049204/ ]pcgraphpng.php[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/23823661@N05/ ]scaredypants[/url], on Flickr


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 8:30 am
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If it is a US test many people in the UK will come out further to the left than they thought they would.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 8:30 am
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.74

Has a clear inbuild bias to authoritarian and right - so anyone genuinely neutral will come out as left / libertarian


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 8:38 am
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Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.49

I think I'm the pope by the looks of things


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 8:48 am
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I am a bit to the left of Ghandi.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:01 am
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I seem to remember this test, or something very similar being linked to an article on the BBC, about peoples voting habits, ie as a society we seem to vote far to the right of individuals actual political leanings. iirc the most convincing argument given for this was scare stories and the general fear factor in the media. It seems when it comes to voting day, that fear is a far stronger emotion than the possibility of positive action.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:03 am
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Would be interesting to know where the people who wrote this thought they were vs where we would put them.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:03 am
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Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

Sounds about right to me, I am actually really a centrist libertarian (which gets mistaken for Thatcherite right winger by fools a tedious amount) but as above the test does have a bias somewhat.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:04 am
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More or less Scaredypants' twin, but some of the questions were a bit odd.

First-generation immigrants can never be fully integrated within their new country.

I agree, but from the point of view of an immigrant rather than a host. This will clearly change how the data can and should be interpreted.

Many questions were ambiguous in the fact that there was confusion between fact and opinion.

The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.

Providing the company is following legal practices or at any cost?

Those with the ability to pay should have the right to higher standards of medical care .

And have access to NHS or instead of NHS?

Etc, etc. Yes, I'm too analytical and have too much free time. 😉


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:05 am
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Economic Left/Right: -1.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.85

The answer though does depend on the question...


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:14 am
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i'm more left and libertarian than ghandi! 😀


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:18 am
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Mmm ended up sort of were I though I would
-3.25 and -3.79 sort to the right of ghandi and the dalai lahma but not by a lot 🙂


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:19 am
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Loaded questions, just like a Ugov poll.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:21 am
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I am a red little dot on a chart apparently? 😉

[img] http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-1.75&soc=-3.95 [/img]


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:24 am
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El-bent, there's no such thing as an unloaded question, don't ya know?


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:24 am
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I was somewhere near Ghandi [i]et al[/i] when I took this last year.

Last year, I posted one of the questions on here as a new topic each day. Some of the discussion was really interesting.


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:27 am
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I suppose Elfin isn't going to post his results coz they were off the scale! 😀


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:28 am
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- 6.8 and - 6.5 so nicer than Ghandi and the Dali Lama ( why did the DL do so badly)


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:38 am
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So where is the 'neither agree nor disagree' option?

I got to question 3 or 4 and gave up - do I HAVE to have an opinion one way or another?


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 9:40 am
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Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28
To the left and down of wwaswas - and more libertarian than TJ 😯
Rubbish questions simple weighting and easy to see what they are getting at with each question Surprisingly I am a left wing bleeding heart liberal well who would have thought


 
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I always knew this place was full of dirty socialists.

Economic Left/Right: 6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62


 
Posted : 15/11/2010 10:24 am