Where do you stand?

[matkokubko]

Where do you stand?

Your Canadian political test

[apollo19]

There are similar tests to this one all over, but this one uses a bit different classifying words (like capitalist, conservative). I was:

Social Libertarian 27.3%

Economical Libertarian 52.3%

Edited: I was in the middle of the line, between Libertarian and Capitalist

[tml12]

There are similar tests to this one all over, but this one uses a bit different classifying words (like capitalist, conservative). I was:

Social Libertarian 27.3%

Economical Libertarian 52.3%

Edited: I was in the middle of the line, between Libertarian and Capitalist

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I took it really fast but I got:

You are:

Social Authoritarian 9.1%

Economical Libertarian 0.0%

Close to where I think I am...centrist communitarian...

[cybercoma]

interesting...

You are:

Social Libertarian 6.8%

Economical Libertarian 50.0%

[Riverwind]

You are:

Social Authoritarian 2.3%

Economical Libertarian 6.8%

Did the test twice came out slightly on the Social Libertarian side the first time.

[Slavik44]

Social Libertarian 13.6%

Economical Authoritarian 36.4%

[Leader Circle]

You are:

Social Authoritarian 40.9%

Economical Libertarian 36.4%

[politika]

I like where I am

Social Authoritarian 38.6%

Economical Authoritarian 2.3%

Im conservative centerailist right in the middle.

[szkw1]

Gee I am left of centre, but not as soccialist as I usually am ... go figure.

Social Authoritarian 4.5%

Economical Authoritarian 59.1%

[Black Dog]

Social Libertarian 4.5%

Economical Authoritarian 36.4%

[tml12]

Social Libertarian 4.5%

Economical Authoritarian 36.4%

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I took it again and spent more time on it.

This should be a better indication of what I am, albeit it isn't much different than what I got the first time.

You are:

Social Authoritarian 9.1%

Economical Libertarian 2.3%

[FTA Lawyer]

You are:

Social Libertarian 4.5%

Economical Libertarian 20.5%

[BHS]

You are:

Social Libertarian 18.2%

Economical Libertarian 43.2%

I have no idea why this was a particularly Canadian political test. None of the questions were specifically about Canadian issues, and could have been just as easily answered by a Finn or Spaniard or Tongolese as by a Quebecois or Albertan.

I detected quite a lot of bias in the way the questions were posed as well. I kind of dislike these tests for that reason - there's always a sense that you know what the pollster is really getting at when he asks certain questions. Which in turn colours the way I respond to the question.

It's strange that they would calculate a political attitude to the first decimal place of a percentage as if the test and results were scientific, which certainly was not the case. Not that opinion polls are scientific anyway. But to imply that level of accuracy can be determined by a test consisting of 36 questions is just stupid. As I mentioned above, there's the issue of bias in the way the questions were asked, and if the topic at hand isn't approached from several different angles there's less accuracy in the way you can reply - there's no way of qualifying one answer with another.