Though it could be guessed, lets see how people show up on the political spectrum

[Son Goku]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Some of the questions are well tough to pin-point an exact responce to, and one of them in there made no sense. What is a plant genetic resource in a given society? Umm, some could probably see this in the questionare.

Anyhow, as for myself it showed (much akin to most of these tests)

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82

[Saint Lucifer]

My political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62

[Sazar]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.85


I spose I am a left-leaning libertarian :)

[Rampant CL]

I found out what i was, kinda:

Economic Left/Right: 1.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.05

[Riptide]

Guess I really am a moderate after all. :p

[Ninja Prime]

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: 3.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.95

Interesing, though that poll had some rather anti-right type questions...

[Saint Lucifer]

Which ones in particular?

[Sazar]

the whole thing is designed to get one to answer questions... depending on how you feel about topics == your overall idealogy and what you fall under...

[DiscipleDOC]

I guess this would be me:
http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/images/cross.gif

[UDawg]

We have done this before.



Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all.

Where is the "I don't care" button? :)

[Saint Lucifer]

You've certainly gotten more liberal since the last time you did it, UDawg.

Last time, you were:
Left/Right -- 6.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian -- 1.33

[saturnotaku]

Left/right -- 0.88
Libertarian/Authoritarian -- 1.88

I long for a Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals and rule me like a king!

:D

[UDawg]

You've certainly gotten more liberal since the last time you did it, UDawg.

Last time, you were:
Left/Right -- 6.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian -- 1.33


Well, the problem is how the questions are phrased. Some are just worded from a left wing point of view. I don't have a problem with that. It is their test. It just seems to me that they are very skewed towards the left. Again this is not a complaint but some of the questions are just not how a conservative thinks about that certain issue.

I wouldn't say I am more liberal. I would say I saw the questions a little more hard to answer. Most of the time I was either agree or disagree. Only a hand full of time did I swing all the way to one side or the other.

[Clay]

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.10

Well that was amusing. :) This is David Salgado's hack job of the original Nolan chart. ;)

[Son Goku]

The questions are designed to try to draw out certain responses that could make a person commit to one view or the other. It wasn't just on the left though...one of the questions I found difficult to answer was concerning whether one considers unemployment or inflation a more important issue. TBH, I found it a toughie. Being without a job is tough (and there is perhaps more I could say), and yet on the other hand if one has a hyper-inflation the money won't be worth much.

There were several questions I had to get back too and couldn't easily answer. Other questions, I could see where it was going (regardless of whether for the left or right) and my reasoning would be different then what was assumed. All I can say, having done several of these before is I tend to be from somwhere between mildly left to mildly right (depending on the specific questions), but do tend to be a liberatarian every time.

[UDawg]

The questions definatly came from a left point of view, again I am not saying this is bad but rather a obvious point in fact.

[Clay]

Nolan was Libertarian...so yeah there is some bias in it for sure.

[PsychoSy]

I hate this damn thing! It's just way too biased.

The dot in mine should be, IMO, 3-4 ticks to the right. I ain't that much of a leftist! ;)

EDIT: Bah, forget it ... I saved the cross wrong and I'm not taking the damn thing again. I'm not the Dali Lama, dammit! :D

[Ninja Prime]

I hate this damn thing! It's just way too biased.

The dot in mine should be, IMO, 3-4 ticks to the right. I ain't that much of a leftist! ;)

EDIT: Bah, forget it ... I saved the cross wrong and I'm not taking the damn thing again. I'm not the Dali Lama, dammit! :D


*Hey look, there goes PsychoSy's 'I'm moderate/centrist' routine out the window*

:p

[PsychoSy]

Oh yeah, I tossed that sucker out the moment "Compassionate Conservativism" escaped from the bowels of the Carlyle Group! I've been leaning really Libertarian lately ... and it's scaring alot of my left-wing and right wing friends! :D :p

[2fast4u]

looks like i havent changed much since the last time i took this test..

now:

Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.59

last time:

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.79

[sytaylor]

CHRIST... last time i took this thing i was -4 libertarian and 4 economic right...

Hows that for messed up :p

[Riptide]

Just goes to show you how most people are more or less a hodgepodge of different views and tough to nail down 100% one way or the other.

[sytaylor]

Me more so than most :p (is that a poor attempt at satire? YESH (crazy) )

[retsam]

did anyone stop to notice that on the sample chart they have people that they can never really know what there answer's would have been considering the issues that they apply in this questionare would never have come up in there time/location ..... im just looking at that sample as some sort of base line...... if this is even there baseline..... what would be there baseline to compare people too....


retsam