You and the Political Compass

[Ecthy]

so you eat american children

[Juggernaut]

Economic Left/Right: -0.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.56

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Stefu
This has been posted and posted and posted and posted and posted here, and always, clear majority is shown to be Libertarian Left. I think it goes without question that this is very, very skewed poll to the direction of Libertarian Left, and questions show it, too. I think we here at Apolyton should create a better test. Any ideas by... anyone?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

[Dauphin]

Anyway, my history & politics group made the Political Compass test (http://www.politicalcompass.org) in school last week to see how it (the group) would be aligned politically. While making the test, I got the idea of repeating the same experiment here on Apolyton Off-Topic - and here's the result. To participate, just go to the web site and take the test, then return here and enter your result to the poll above.

Check out the results for CGN

My views are more economically right wing, and less libertarian than last time I did the test.

Economic Left/Right: 5.00
Shift of 2.5 to the right

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -1.48
Shift of 1.3 to the "up".


Edit - quoted the wrong person.

[Clear Skies]

Given that people such as Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader are listed as Libertarian Left, I guess I ought to be there too...

Only I'm not Libertarian, I'm a left-liberal...

[Libertarian]

Some of the questions were too ambiguous, like this one:

Jews surely have to take some of the responsibility for their persecution over the past 2000 years.

[Patriqvium]

Actually, my hypothesis was quite right, since most of the people I know (and even some who are know around here for so-called "rightist" opinions) got left-liberal answers. It seems to be that our local critics do have a point about the "neutrality" of the test.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The libertarian compass is a joke. It is deliberately skewed to make thir point of view look the most free. I could just as easily create a compass that made communism the most free point on the compass.

Now that I'd like to see.

Yeah, the test sucks, but so does anything which puts you into a "yes/no" framework without specific context.

I got -.25 on the economic side, -4.21 on the authoritarian/libertarian side, so the rest of you must be goddamned free love hippie commies.

[Hobbes]

Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.72

I'm close to Gandhi too! Yippie!

[lightblue]

Left-Lib.

I don't like it when do don't have a "I don't hold an opinion either way/I couldn't care less" option. It immediately cuts out the vast majority of people who couldn't give a toss.

[Shi Huangdi]

Economic Left/Right: 5.13
Authoritarian/Libertarian: 0.10

Immediate Right.

Overall a bad test. I am in fact mostly Libertarian on social issues, but this test incorporated enough questions about your own personal morality that it managed to push my score above the authoritarian line.

[Rex Little]

3.38/-3.95, which is intermediate center by the standards of the survey but just a shade off of libertarian right, which is where I would expect to find myself.

I agree that most of the questions draw a hard vacuum.

[Dr.Oogkloot]

I noticed a few new and rephrased questions since last time I took it. And they took out that silly question about floods and earthquakes, I think

Economic Left/Right: 2.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -0.26

If I'm a libertarian then you'd have to be pretty extreme to classify as authoritarian.
They're still asking irrelevant questions. Too many of them are about sex. The questions about religion make atheists score very libertarian.

[Immortal Wombat]

Your political compass:
Economic Left/Right: 6.50
Authoritarian/Libertarian: 8.67

Mmmuh, I gave false answers .

edit: worryingly similar to Iain Duncan-Smith

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Dr.Oogkloot
Economic Left/Right: 2.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -0.26

If I'm a libertarian then you'd have to be pretty extreme to classify as authoritarian.

I've become more extreme than you