Political Compass

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by MalevolentLight
How am I a commie? Only 1% are less marxist than me. Only 1% are more individual and only 4% are more liberal market. I'm also very in favor of small gov. I'm about as far from communist as you can get and somehow I'm listed as a liberal? I have to wonder why.

Its teh EVIL GAY COMMIE CONSPIRACY! They want to list you as a liberal so that you can't save America from the inevitable invasion of the secret commiemen living in underground cities across the globe! Run!!!11!!

[Imran Siddiqui]

How am I a commie? Only 1% are less marxist than me. Only 1% are more individual and only 4% are more liberal market. I'm also very in favor of small gov. I'm about as far from communist as you can get and somehow I'm listed as a liberal? I have to wonder why.

Theist vs Materialist 70% were more theist

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Tass:

[joncha]

I forget exactly what my score was last time, but I'm guessing it was about the same...

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -9.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.03

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Kontiki
Um, no. Pick up an economics text book and read a bit about free markets and monopolies. I think you might be confusing a free market with a purely competitive market. There is nothing about a free market which precludes monopolies, nor are monopolies inherently bad in a free market.

A free market is a perfectly competitive market. A market with a monopoly is not free by definition.

In the ideal free market, the law of supply and demand predominates, influencing prices toward an equilibrium that balances the demands for the products against the supplies. At these equilibrium prices, the market distributes the products to the purchasers according to each purchaser's use (or utility) for each product and within the relative limits of each buyer's purchasing power. In this mathematical ideal market, the distribution of products is Pareto optimal, meaning that no purchaser could have his or her purchasing limits filled in a way more useful to them without reducing the usefulness of some other purchaser's bundle of products.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

This is not correct. You don't understand. It's completely possible that this policy would be accepted by Rawls.

It is totally inconsistent with his policy of the maximin, so no it most likely would not be accepted by Rawls. Perhaps you are the one who does not understand.

Rawls claimed that policies should favour the most disadvantaged.

So if that 1% is the most disadvantaged, he wouldn't agree, but if that 1% is the top 1%, Rawls wouldn't have a problem with it.

[Urban Ranger]

Overall, the PoliticsForum quiz considers you a socially-orientated, materialist, internationalist, non-absolutist, controlled-market kind of person, who also seems quite Marxist.

Nothing I didn't know

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Some of them bothered me. A good example is the "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." question. With only 2 choices given, I had to go with the pro-gun option as I'm not terribly opposed to the 2nd Amendment but I do think it needs to be revised to modern realities. I refuse to discuss this issue further in this thread, so don't bother.

You didn't look close enough.

41. "Guns don't kill people. People kill people."

* 950 of 1333 (71%) said True
* 383 of 1333 (29%) said False

You said xxx.

This question did not affect your score.
It was included for interest's sake.

Pwned.

[Ted Striker]

Thanks for making that chart Ben.

[Bosh]

Hmmmm Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51
virtually exactly the same as last time.

Originally posted by Kontiki
Just for the hell of it, I went through again and clicked Strongly Agree for every single question. Apparently that gets you:

Econ: 0.00
Social: 4.36

Interesting.
I think here we have the root of the test's bias. I think that there are a lot of "here's a really dumbass social conservative statement: agree/disagree" that really biases the test restults quite badly. A number of the social conservate statements were so fringe that it surprises me how anyone (except a few of the usual suspects) could take that quiz and get an authoritarian score.

[Ted Striker]

The test seems like it is about 10 years old in terms of the issues presented.

[Ted Striker]

Overall, the PoliticsForum quiz considers you a socially-orientated, theist, big-government, non-absolutist, controlled-market kind of person.

These characteristics would put you in the overall category of borderline social conservative.

[Bosh]

and on the other test

Overall, the PoliticsForum quiz considers you a socially-orientated, materialist, small-government, internationalist, free-trade, non-absolutist, kind of person.

These characteristics would put you in the overall category of socialist. Your natural home at PoliticsForum would be the Socialism area.

Good to see a test that recognizes the existance of small-government socialists

As far as the individual breakdown I was at about 80th percentile in everything except Controlled Market vs. Liberal Market and Marxist vs. Non-Marxist were I was virtually right in the middle.

[Ben Kenobi]

Thanks for making that chart Ben.

Thank you.

Nice to see someone appreciated it.

Should I make the lettering bigger so that people can see their name more easily?

[Ted Striker]

If you have time, yeah go for it.

[The Mad Monk]

Economic Left/Right: 0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.44


I don't remember how I was the last time around.