Lord Muck oGentry
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Not too bad a result if we're playing silly buggers.
Not too bad a result if we're playing silly buggers.
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Where do you score on this political compass/test?
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I think I'm a bit more law-abiding/respecting than my results say. and not as progressive.
but its not a perfect test.
I do wanna say though, that this test does tell us something VERY important that a lot of Americans do not grasp, and that is political ideology is more than just "left-right".
but its not a perfect test.
I do wanna say though, that this test does tell us something VERY important that a lot of Americans do not grasp, and that is political ideology is more than just "left-right".
mortimer
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And which direction of the graph would law abiding/respecting be?
Beerina
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I have grave problems even answering some of the questions. Consider the first:
Correctly phrased, serving the interests of freedom-based capitalism is synonymous with serving the interests of humanity.
It's clear what they're getting at, that somehow evil "trans-national corporations" are, transparently, looking to be unanswerable overlords of the future of humanity, running amok like the giant quasi-government entities they are in Japanese manga.
It's akin to asking if you still beat your wife.
Knowing what the quiz is about, I answered "strongly agree", even though I don't agree with what their disturbed, historically inaccurate concept of a trans-national's effect on humanity would be. In other words, "serving humanity", in the context of the quiz, would mean believing in massive government control. That's clearly 180 degrees opposite from what's beneficial in actual reality, as Julian Simon demonstrates (and made loud, public, successful predictions about.)
Or this one:
Well...by "most successful", do they include companies that get legal protections via rent-seeking against competition, making them successful? If so, then strongly disagree. If by "successful at beating competition in a free, laissez faire economy", then strongly agree.
I'd guess I couldn't even answer 3/4 of the questions without a "signing statement" explaining my interpretation
I'm almost dead center in the purple, lower-right quadrant.
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I'm with LK and Beerina on this. So many of those questions needed a "depends" answer.
Like..."The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Well, that depends on whether he's my enemy or not. Has nothing to do with his relationship with my enemy. I understand what the point of the question is...but the responses for so many questions should include a "depends" or "both" option.
That and the way some of the questions were phrased was very leading.
I don't believe the maps are accurate given these serious drawbacks.
Like..."The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Well, that depends on whether he's my enemy or not. Has nothing to do with his relationship with my enemy. I understand what the point of the question is...but the responses for so many questions should include a "depends" or "both" option.
That and the way some of the questions were phrased was very leading.
I don't believe the maps are accurate given these serious drawbacks.
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Yes, the last time I saw this thing I wondered about the absoluteness of the given choices.
And of course the biases of the evaluators.
This is only one data point.
It takes a lot more similar examinations to find out anything about something as complex as a person.
And...
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mortimer
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I don't consider law-abiding and progressive to be opposites. Authoritarian may have more restrictive laws, while progressives are less restrictive, but that doesn't really speak to whether you personally abide by those laws or not.
this shows that you do not understand the graph at all.
Authoritarianism is the opposite of Libertarianism.
Social Conservatism (Right) is the opposite of social Progressivism (Left).
one can be a hardcore Conservative or a hardcore Progressive, and be either Authoritarian OR Libertarian.
comprende?
this is why its a good graph for understanding one's political & social views. the test itself might be crappy, but the graph is not.
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mortimer
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No, sorry, I understand the graph just fine. I read your first quote above with a comma rather than a period, so I thought you were making a contrast between law-abiding and progressive. My mistake.
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I've seen other versions of the test where the "left" was defined as "collectivist" and the right "individualist".
Some would argue that you can't be both collectivist and libertarian, because collectivism violates the non-aggression principal.
in my mind, progressive simply means wanting to move forward with new ideas, innovations, and understandings of society....while conservative simply means wanting to preserve our understandings as they already are..and even move back to earlier ideals and goals.
portlandatheist
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This is my score:
Economic Left/Right: 0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54
This test is missing a very important dimension that has nothing to do with either left/right or Libertarian/Authoritarian and that axis is Realist/Idealist . On that scale, I'm more realist than Idealist.
Economic Left/Right: 0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54
This test is missing a very important dimension that has nothing to do with either left/right or Libertarian/Authoritarian and that axis is Realist/Idealist . On that scale, I'm more realist than Idealist.
Gord_in_Toronto
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Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15
The test questions seemed to have changed since I last took this "test" but ISTR my results fell pretty much in the same quadrant. If I can find a copy of my previous results, I'll see how this Forum has changed me.
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15
The test questions seemed to have changed since I last took this "test" but ISTR my results fell pretty much in the same quadrant. If I can find a copy of my previous results, I'll see how this Forum has changed me.
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