Challah

Here's a political test that might be of interest. The questions are good and the results seem pretty accurate. If you don't mind sharing, I'd like to know where you stand according to the test.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

My results:
Economic Left/Right: 2.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.10

tecoyah

And Mine:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08


Not a bad quiz...relatively accurate, and at least the questions were pertinent

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RenaissanceII

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74

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LoganSnake

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.51

I think I've taken this once before, but yeah. I guess it's pretty accurate.

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Baraka_Guru

My result:
Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26


I think this is accurate enough, though I question the integrity of many of the questions. Some of my responses I think may have been misinterpreted by the quiz. This is because most of the questions were simplistic even though the issue is complex. Many questions made me think: "I agree because it is logical, but I don't support it." For example, I agreed with the question about the one-party state.

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Reese

Yah, I agree with Baraka, Some of questions were overly simplistic and I felt a agree or disagree wasn't a valid answer...

Economic Left/Right: -3.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

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ubertuber

We did this thread about 4 years ago in Tilted Politics. I'm not going to merge the two because the last post is from so long ago. By the same token, people may have drifted in the intervening time. However, if anyone wants to check the old version out, here's the link:

Political Compass Thread

I am going to move this one into Tilted Politics, where it may be met with more enthusiasm.

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Willravel

Economic Left/Right: -8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.33

Looks like Im close to the Dalai Lama.

JustJess

Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74


Huh. This was Very Interesting, and quite educating as well.
Now that I've read their intro, your sentence makes sense, Willravel, but at first I was thinking "what an egotist!!" Hahahahahaaha.

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Challah

Very strange, I expected to see more people in the blue and purple quadrants.

albania

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.67

I used to be closer to the center, stupid liberal college.

The graph(url cause pic was red x):
http://www.politicalcompass.org/prin...1.88&soc=-2.67

ASU2003

I'm Ghandi.

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64



Are their any countries that are led by people in the green section? I wonder where the presidental candidates place on the graph?

ubertuber

ubertuber of May 31, 2003 came out as follows:

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -5.08
Left/Right: 6.88

52 months later I'm here:

Economic Left/Right: -0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87

So I'm roughly as libertarian as ever, but the last 4.5 years have brought me significantly left, just past the center.

I think I could have predicted that, based on my lessening support for unfettered corporate rights. Interesting to look back and compare the old me to the present me.

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Frosstbyte

Economic Left/Right: 2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33

Guess I'm the only one in the purple box, eh?

djtestudo

I'm near...nobody...

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connyosis

Yup, seems pretty accurate to me.

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Kadath

Coming in like most people, in the green. And probably where I was years ago, too.

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MSD

May 2003
Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.87

September 2007
Economic Left/Right: 2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

Least surprising result in the thread.

Also, I used to be more liberal than Willravel

mixedmedia

Economic Left/Right: -7.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.23

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Grasshopper Green

Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.31

I think I took this a couple years ago and was in about the same spot.

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JumpinJesus

You all realize that this is marketing for the Libertarian Party, right?

Think about it...has anyone...ANYONE...landed above the horizontal?

I'm going to test this theory...I'll be right back.

okay, it is possible, if you are silly and answer "Strongly" with everything and think like Mussolini would think.

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nonplussed

I see the overwhelming majority of members are libertarian in their social views with a significant minority translating their libertarianism into right wing economics. I'd have to say that the latter is a well intentioned but misguided expression of personal freedom.

If I had taken this quiz in my earlier days I would have been on the lower right side of the graph, but as I age I increasingly see that pure economic freedom only benefits society in theory. The power of the market is real and needs to be exercised. But the power of the state needs to be used to regulate its inevitable dis-economies and unintended negative consequences.

I'm -6.25 on the economic spectrum and -4.46 on the social.

Willravel

TFP isn't frequented by authoritarians. It's that simple. BTW, I'm not Libertarian, I'm socialist. I showed up as far left socialist.

MSD

Look at the old thread, people landed above the line with the same questions.

ASU2003

They could have put democrat, socialist, republican, communist, and anarchism on the compass too. Take a look at this picture that is rotated a little to see the other groups. I'm not sure we are all anarchists, but the test does tend to put people into that quadrant a lot.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slark/491554200/

Shauk

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59

ubertuber

On the surface, I'm not sure your labels work. Democrat and republican are not polar opposites, nor are socialism and communism.

I may be missing something - I'll have to think about it more.

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cj2112

Economic Left/Right: 4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77

snowy

Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

compass.png

About the same as willravel. Odd how that worked out.

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Infinite_Loser

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.85

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Rekna

Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69



It would be cool to combine these into one image with labels showing where everyone is on TFP

aceventura3

There were some interesting questions. I thought I would have been further right and more libertarian.

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