The_Squid Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 I mean in comparison to most here. According to the chart, I'm very much a moderate. I'm apparently very right wing economically. It seems to depend on whatever Haper's gov't comes up with at the time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallc Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 It seems to depend on whatever Haper's gov't comes up with at the time... Yes, that's why I've spent the last few days criticizing them for their military record post 2008, and their continued idiotic stance on drugs. That's why I campaigned against Harper in 2006 in favour of Paul Martin. We're not all as partisan as you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evening Star Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 The two-axis idea is good but the chart is calibrated very poorly, in my opinion. By their own standards, whereby the chart should map every ideological viewpoint that has ever been held, extreme left should be total collectivism and extreme right should be extreme economic libertarianism. Thus, someone who believes in e.g. a Nordic-style mixed economy and social democracy should fall right in the centre. The vast majority of the current Western world would be right of centre. No one should really be left of centre unless they are fairly supportive of some significant degree of collective ownership of the means of production. They actually recognize this when they map current politicians and parties. However, anyone with even moderately liberal views ends up in the bottom left quadrant; the world does not contain that many anarcho-syndicalists! I basically add 5 to everyone's left/right score and 2 to everyone's tom/bottom score. There used to be a Hans Eysenck Political Attitude test online that was much better; can't find it now though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 (edited) The two-axis idea is good but the chart is calibrated very poorly, in my opinion. By their own standards, whereby the chart should map every ideological viewpoint that has ever been held, extreme left should be total collectivism and extreme right should be extreme economic libertarianism. I've always felt there was an axis missing and that the model should be more three dimensional - one that measures capacities/propensities/ for skeptical critical thinking or suspending disbelief - believing or eschewing the supernatural and the morality, ethics and principles derived. It's a missing more fundamental and foundational dimension that would better flesh out the other two. Who knows what might be derived from a model that could be turned around and observed from different angles? Maybe just a niftier graphic but maybe some different insights about where our personal politics comes from and how these combine to form our collective politics. In any case... Economic Left/Right: -5.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.56 Edited August 16, 2015 by eyeball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evening Star Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 I've always felt there was an axis missing and that the model should be more three dimensional - one that measures capacities/propensities/ for skeptical critical thinking or suspending disbelief - believing or eschewing the supernatural and the morality, ethics and principles derived. It's a missing more fundamental and foundational dimension that would better flesh out the other two. Who knows what might be derived from a model that could be turned around and observed from different angles? Maybe just a niftier graphic but maybe some different insights about where our personal politics comes from and how these combine to form our collective politics. In any case... Economic Left/Right: -5.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.56 The Eysenck-based test that I mentioned had three axes: "radicalism", "tender-mindedness", and "socialism". The issue of scepticism vs traditionalism and religion is accounted for in the first ® axis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Perhaps, it still feels like it's missed a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercoma Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 August, are you plotting everyone's responses on a graph? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybercoma Posted August 25, 2015 Report Share Posted August 25, 2015 bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallc Posted August 27, 2015 Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 My mood easily changes things: Your Political Compass Economic Left/Right: -0.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonam Posted August 27, 2015 Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 Here's where I am today: Here's where I was in 2011: Looks like over time I'm slowly getting less right wing but more libertarian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeferMadness Posted September 5, 2015 Report Share Posted September 5, 2015 -9.38, -8.36 The chart can barely contain me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 (edited) I think the graph must be moving steadily in a NE direction. I'm probably located where one of the o's in the word "Look" is in the post above yours relative to past scores I've had. Edited September 6, 2015 by eyeball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted January 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 (edited) Bump. I really should update the graph. ===== With all the new posters on this forum, it's time to bring this thread to the top again. New here? Click and do the test below. It's fun and takes about five minutes. Then post your results (Economic Left/Right) and (Social Libertarian/Authoritarian) in this thread. The Political Compass Test in this thread's OP seems to pose good, irritating questions. If you want to know what others (your friends or acquaintances) think of you - it's a good first start. For example, try the test (alone or together) with a new potential girlfriend or boyfriend. Later, compare scores, and answers - but make sure your potential partner understands English, and the moral/political implications of the questions. Me, now: Economic Left/Right: 6.5 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05 Edited January 30, 2017 by August1991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goddess Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 I'm just discovering my political compass. But here is where I am today, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialamah Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 According to the test I am both more left and more libertarian than you are. I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to believe, based on those labels. There were a few answers I had to 'lie' about because there wasn't an option for "could care less, really". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanie_ Posted March 17, 2017 Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 (edited) My results from June 2005 (way back in this thread): Economic Left/Right: -5.63; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51. April 2008: Economic Left/Right: -4.38; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54. Today: Economic Left/Right: -6.5; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62. Edited to add: it was fun to scroll through this thread and see who is still here! Edited March 17, 2017 by Melanie_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?Impact Posted March 17, 2017 Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 Here you go: Economic Left/Right: -4.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33 But of course far more important is how stupid many of the test questions are. How am I supposed answer a question on Luck and have it mean anything, perhaps they should include a question on Santa Clause. What about the question of work life balance for a mother, why not a similar question for a father? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?Impact Posted March 17, 2017 Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 Just now, ?Impact said: Here you go: Economic Left/Right: -4.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33 But of course far more important is how stupid many of the test questions are. How am I supposed answer a question on luck and have it mean anything, perhaps they should include a question on Santa Claus. What about the question of work life balance for a mother, why not a similar question for a father? I would say at least 20% of the questions were themselves highly questionable, that would certainly skew the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted March 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2017 On 3/17/2017 at 3:53 PM, ?Impact said: But of course far more important is how stupid many of the test questions are..... I fundamentally disagree. While I disagree with many implied answers to questions, the test questions are not stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OftenWrong Posted March 19, 2017 Report Share Posted March 19, 2017 Such attempts to categorize people into neat little boxes inevitably becomes a grotesque oversimplification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted February 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 Bump. I really should update the graph. ===== With all the new posters on this forum (eg Cum Laude), it's time to bring this thread to the top again. New here? Click and do the test below. It's fun and takes about five minutes. Then post your results (Economic Left/Right) and (Social Libertarian/Authoritarian) in this thread. The Political Compass Test in this thread's OP seems to pose good, irritating questions. If you want to know what others (your friends or acquaintances) think of you - it's a good first start. For example, try the test (alone or together) with a new potential girlfriend or boyfriend. Later, compare scores, and answers - but make sure your potential partner understands English, and the moral/political implications of the questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 On 3/18/2017 at 8:37 PM, OftenWrong said: Such attempts to categorize people into neat little boxes inevitably becomes a grotesque oversimplification. And yet in every category a left winger is simply...Pol Pot or Stalin incarnate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted February 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, eyeball said: And yet in every category a left winger is simply...Pol Pot or Stalin incarnate. And every right winger is Adolf Hitler... or Donald Trump. ..... If I could create a new Political Compass test, it would add a third dimension: language/culture/ethnic group. IMHO, the current test is naively Anglo-American. Nevertheless, it's a very good test: Try it! Edited February 8, 2018 by August1991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 So if I am anti-trade, pro-tariff and anti-law enforcement I am either 'left' or pro-Trump. Taking tests only makes sense in a sane world, Auguste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kactus Posted February 9, 2018 Report Share Posted February 9, 2018 Economic: Left/Right: -1.13 Social: Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.26 I guess that pretty sums up where my political affiliations lie.... I find the eay some of these questions are asked really stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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