Find your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.49

I've never quite managed to break -9.49. :\ *shrugs* :p

Originally posted by PosterBoy
<b>I've never quite managed to break -9.49. </b>

Are you trying to do it, or are you answering honestly? Just curious. ;)

Well, the last magazine I read in Borders Bookstore the other day was International Socialist Review. ;)

The test is much too stationary in the spacial/time grid to be useful ;)

(Questions by Trumptman)
I believe it fundamentally fair that the top 20% of income earners pay 80% of all taxes. (SA, A, D, SD)
SA
How about this question:
I believe it fundamentally fair that the top 20% of income earners earn 80% of all income.

I believe that the strongest country in the world should police disagreements between less able countries in the world.
SD
Whenever there's a "it depends" i need to select strongly disagree.
In this case, it depends on the projected outcome, not the intent.

I believe all business should not be state owned (no) and used for the common good (mostly).
SD/A (that's a horribly worded question, as there are two completely unrelated questions inside -- you're really not very good at this, are you?)

I believe that being free from being offended is not a fundimental right.
SA
Anything in the world you do is going to offend someone. If you offend me, I'll sure as hell tell you that you did it, but I won't take away your right to do it.

Does that answer your question, Mr. Smarty Pants?

Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38

(I think I pissed it off by saying that the mother's primary job should be housemaker. Any parents' primary job should be child-rearing.)

Graph of Responses thus far (http://homepage.mac.com/mcsimpson/desktops/compass.jpg)

Blue dots are responses from AppleInsider
Red dots are responses from ehMac.ca
I'll update it as more responses come in.

Yes, I was a little bored when I decided to do this, but I think it's interesting.

Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05

Originally posted by tonton
(Questions by Trumptman)
I believe it fundamentally fair that the top 20% of income earners pay 80% of all taxes. (SA, A, D, SD)
SA
How about this question:
I believe it fundamentally fair that the top 20% of income earners earn 80% of all income.

I believe that the strongest country in the world should police disagreements between less able countries in the world.
SD
Whenever there's a "it depends" i need to select strongly disagree.
In this case, it depends on the projected outcome, not the intent.

I believe all business should not be state owned (no) and used for the common good (mostly).
SD/A (that's a horribly worded question, as there are two completely unrelated questions inside -- you're really not very good at this, are you?)

I believe that being free from being offended is not a fundimental right.
SA
Anything in the world you do is going to offend someone. If you offend me, I'll sure as hell tell you that you did it, but I won't take away your right to do it.

Does that answer your question, Mr. Smarty Pants?

My point, and no I didn't claim to be perfect about writing questions to determine a person's political compass, really should have you agreeing and disagreeing with statements from all foun views. Instead with this survey if you disagree with a liberal statement, it labels you more conservative. To be fair it should have conservative statements that you have to disagree with in order to also be liberal. Likewise for authoritarian vs. libertarian.

There are some very liberal people on here who sometimes come across very authoritarian. This survey doesn't appear to have caught that because it only asks them to disagree with libertarian statements to move toward authoritarian.

Here's a good example. (Feel free to tweak the questions if you feel they are unclear.)

Abortion is a fundamental right. (Could indicate liberal perspective)

It is okay to use abortion for gender selection, genetic deformities, and for population control. (Could indicate authoritarian perspective even while supporting abortion rights)

Nick

Originally posted by ShawnJ
I see mine! :lol:

I see mine as well. It is the only one on the line and to the right.

Did you see this page?

Presidential candidates (http://http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/usprimaries.html/)

Despite all the evil intentions I am assigned by some here, it appears that I would be more liberal and even more libertarian than Howard Dean!!

That means that you would have to support ME in the next election.:lol:

Nick

What's interesting to me about your graph is that 1) there's so much concentration in one quadrant, which suggests a serious problem with the questions, and 2) if anything there seems to be a correlation between libertarianism and economic left-ism. The reason I think that's interesting is that so many conservatives consider themselves libertarian-leaning, but this graph seems to suggest the opposite, that the right is authoritarian-leaning and the left is libertarian-leaning.

Originally posted by BRussell
What's interesting to me about your graph is that 1) there's so much concentration in one quadrant, which suggests a serious problem with the questions, and 2) if anything there seems to be a correlation between libertarianism and economic left-ism. The reason I think that's interesting is that so many conservatives consider themselves libertarian-leaning, but this graph seems to suggest the opposite, that the right is authoritarian-leaning and the left is libertarian-leaning.

Or it could just suggest a lot of hypocrisy by those answering the questions.

"I have a political philosophy like Gandhi."

Really, you have no need for material goods, and are fasting to bring about the end of any aggression you see?

"Naw, actually I'm playing on my powerbook, driving my import, and I'm going to go catch a movie and buy some cd's with my girl later...but my heart is in the right place..."

Hahahahaha...

Nick

Except no one claimed to "have a political philosophy like Gandhi." tonton merely named the other people in his quadrant-- which does suggest some similarities-- but differences as well. I'm not sure the graph accounts for those differences. :\

Originally posted by ShawnJ
Except no one claimed to "have a political philosophy like Gandhi." tonton merely named the other people in his quadrant-- which does suggest some similarities-- but differences as well. I'm not sure the graph accounts for those differences. :\

http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/images/axeswithnames.gif

Who wants to in the quadrant with Hitler?

I got -4 for economic left and -5 for social libertarian.

Right next to the Dalai Lama. :lol:

Anders your post reminds me of a Tampax commercial.

tonton you forgot about me!!

Yeah that site is cool. Got a Economic Left/Right: -5.75 and a Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31

I support the death penalty and think we should kill of any serial killer for example. It's way underutilized. at the same time I think rehabilitation is way more important to focus on than punishment, as it's cheaper, and simply works better. At least for things like drug addicts. People like Rush Limbaugh and Martha Stewart, white collar criminals, I would consider jail "rehabilitation." I scored more Libertarian than last time. I actually think Republicans and Bushies are more at odds with Libertarians that Democrats over a lot of issues now. Odd.

You're a relatively central Canadian rascal if I ever met one PB.

Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

I had to put aside the fact that a lot of the questions didn't make sense with the answers to choose from. So I got this score.

Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.00

I got -4,-2 apx, however, Many of the questions I couldn't answer honestly in context. For instance

I strongly agree that ultimately large corporations need to be successful for the good of us all, but I strongly disagree with this from my moral standpoint. I wish there was a better way.

Originally posted by PosterBoy
Graph (http://homepage.mac.com/mcsimpson/desktops/compass.jpg), Updated.

It looks like Shawn's leading us all away from...who's the fascist up in the top right quadrant....Why Common Man I do believe it's you! :lol:

Run away! Run away! Help us escape from the Fascists and Neo-Liberals to the beautiful Land of Communism, Oh Left Leaning Shawn!

(Now Common Man that's what you call a joke so don't get all upset and do something stupid like wake a mod or admin from their slumber, OK?)

Graphs are grouse. :)

Originally posted by ShawnJ
Midwinter scored -10.00 and -9.03, so add that to your list, PosterBoy.

The three of us should start a revolution. (Midwinter and CrazyAussie)

Oh no please not another one. One revolution a year is more than enough.

Damn, now I'm not second anymore. Shitbags. Anybody squeezes me out of third place, you DIE!

Those of you wishing to get a better look at the numbers, you can do so here ( http://homepage.mac.com/mcsimpson/desktops/compass.htm)

I'll add more analysis later.

I'll throw my results in, it appears that according to this questionare, I am really close to the viewpoints of Tony Blair. Surprising to me, I always considered myself more the the "right" than that.

Economic Left/Right: 2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.56

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.23

Nice concept.

-3.50
-2.10

hardly a shock..

Yay for extremists!