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Is it time to do the Political Compass test again?
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 10:08
by 2 As and a B
The Political Compass:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/index
Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92
There seems to be, compared to what I remember before, a vastly expanded FAQs page with lots of interesting stuff on - for reading AFTER taking the test so as not to colour one's interpretation of the questions.
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 10:57
by Catweazle
Last time I did it my result came out right on top of Ghandi, I think that's a good place to leave it.
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 14:07
by IanG
Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.10
Just to the right of gandi
Or 1972 labour party (Never have figured that)
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 15:45
by re
Economic Left/Right: -7.12

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31
Is there a prize?
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 15:59
by mobbsey
X -8, Y -7 -- a little to the south-west of Gandhi and the Dalai Lama
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 18:09
by Vortex
In the first test I came out as 0,0 .... middle of the road or what?
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 18:55
by Ballard
Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69
I'm more Libertarian than Gandhi.... hopeless...
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 19:12
by Vortex
Vortex wrote:In the first test I came out as 0,0 .... middle of the road or what?
Just retested ... moved a tadlet vertically upward from 0,0.
Still don't know what that represents.
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 21:20
by DominicJ
Are you really a Libertarian?
http://lpuk.org/pages/take-the-test.php
10 out of 10, oh yeah
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 21:38
by Vortex
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 21:43
by 2 As and a B
Vortex wrote:Vortex wrote:In the first test I came out as 0,0 .... middle of the road or what?
Just retested ... moved a tadlet vertically upward from 0,0.
Still don't know what that represents.
Moving towards the BNP.
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 21:47
by Vortex
Moving towards the BNP.
Huh??? The sun will have flared up and the oceans boiled before I have drifted
THAT far!
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 21:47
by UndercoverElephant
Your political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 21:49
by Vortex
Your political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49
Who is the
your?
Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 22:09
by UndercoverElephant
Vortex wrote:Your political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49
Who is the
your?
Me, of course.
Although I think the test is a bit useless. My economics are neither left nor right. They are radical
green. Economic lefties do not have a better record than rightists when it comes to environmental policy: neither group appears to have a coherent policy. Also, I'm anti-immigration, but the questions in the test didn't pick this up. I want a serious clampdown on people entering this country, but it isn't because I think that immigrants are necessarily unable to integrate or because I'm a white supremacist. "Greenness" is another axis. I want to clampdown on the power of the multinational corporations, but that is to control their environmental behaviour more than any social damage they cause. We need a three-dimensional readout.
I can't agree with any system which views economic growth as its primary goal, which directly contradicts the aims of both socialist and capitalist economics.
