JJRousseau

Oh Yakk. You're no fun... It's not meant to be the be all and end all. It's an intersting quiz that can generate some interesting discussion. Political ideology is a terribly messy thing but as far as attempts to quantify it go, I think this particular quiz has considerable validity. Certainly more than any other I have seen.

I certainly agree that some of the questions are difficult to answer because your intellect and your emotion respond differently. The first time I took the test, I tried to answer intellectually to the "Sentiment" that the statement made. I took the test again, answering emotionally and was slightly more extreme. i consider that the first is my cynical real world answer. The second is my "what-if", utopian answer. ???

While the two dimensional model was created by a Libertarian, I don't see on this website that these people are necessarily Libertarians. In fact, the two names they credit are socialists. Further the two dimensional model is well respected by educators and supporters of various parties. Specifically, this web sites model is not the same is the one on the American Libertarian site. It is rotated 45 degrees counter-clockwise and the left/right axis is somewhat different. Comparing the philosophy behind differences in interesting.

I strongly disagree. Too many people label themselves incorrectly (myself included) and too many political labels mean different things. You can not co-relate American Republicans because they are all over the map on most issues. As you can not co-relate Libertarians, etc. I don't think you can read that much in to this quiz. It is simply asking you for you opinion on social and economic issues and plotting where you fall. Once you see where you land, you can call yourself what ever you want. Yes, I guess they could be weighting the test so that most people fall in the bottom left but I hope most won't make any dramatic life altering choices based solely on this quiz.