Cheers Lurkette, I was just about to make a post saying what a cretin I am as I can't work out how to post the plots I've made of the data. If you could tell me how you did it, I can post my plots of IQ vs each of the other data. It's a bit tricky cos the data are skewed, but there is some kind of trend.

Economic Left/Right: -4.12
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.95

IQ: 130


IQ tests seem to only test your book smarts. IQ means little in the real world.

Hey JH. I just used Excel - selected the data, chose a scatter graph, and gave it min and max values for the X and Y axes. I'm afraid that exhausted my statistical capabilities ;) Anything you can add will be greatly appreciated.

I didn't do much other than plotting a scatter, but I couldn't work out how to put my graphs into a post, so I was just wondering how you did it.

I took a screen shot of the graph and pasted it into an image editing program, cropped it and saved it as a jpg.

I tried to be as wacky liberal/anarchist as I could and got
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05

I wonder which ones I didn't get on the libertarian/authortarian side. :(

you so crazy Utswo :p

well here goes; 129-IQ 3.5-l/r 2.8-pol.

Thanks for putting up with my lack of intelligence

-3.88 and 1.85 just beside Gandhi and what is this IQ that you talk of ??

Since the Political compass gives historical names as reference points, I have provided a URL where one can match up the IQ scores with famous people:

http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-80790/Index.htm

(1.38,-1.18) 144

IQ 143
L/R 4.62
Lib/Auth -0.41

I guess I am the right wing nut ball here, sorry to skew the curve, though with all the hi iqs here, I guess I prove the theory.

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90
IQ: 144

(-4.50,-5.54) IQ: 139

IQ: 136
Economic Left/Right: -0.12
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

Btw if people are still interested: I could do a multi-variate regression analysis, check for IQ/compass corelations and see how statistically significant they are with the statistical software package SPSS.

would appreciate it if you could. I was just going to do a coupla sucky scatter graphs, but I couldn't even manage that.

Its nice to know that the TFP has such a concentration of geniuses and near geniuses.

All brought together, for their love of boobies.

Ok, I'll post the results later this week :)

(-3.50, -4.92) & 183 baby yeah.
Edit: High IQ, but I can prove it, I think. Also, IQ doesnt mean much, what about formal education?

Here are the results of the analysis:

-Means

IQ: mean = 140.65, standard deviation = 12.94 (with N = 57)
Economic Left/Right: mean = -2.31, standard deviation = 3.88 (with N = 59)
Libertarian/Authoritarian: mean = -3.15, standard deviation = 3.12 (with N = 59)


-Correlations (2 tailed pearson correlation)

IQ vs. Economic Left/Right = 0.022, statistical significanse: p = 0.873
-> absolutely no correlation, any correlation that exist is purely due to chance
IQ vs Libertarian/Authoritarian = - 0.129, statistical significanse: p = 0.339
-> very small negative correlation, however the correlation that exist is purely due to chance
Economic Left/Right vs Libertarian/Authoritarian = 0.598, statistical significance: p < 0.01
-> strong correlation, fact that this correlation exist is very unlikely to be due to chance

Simply put:

- IQ has nothing whatsoever to do with ones political affiliation (at least not with the people who have participated on this thread).

- There's a strong relationship between ones political views regarding economics and Liberty/Authority - the more to the right one is on economical issues, the more one believes in tight authority structures.

-> oh well whatever, never mind :p

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.69
and my IQ is 124
I stupid and bow down to thoes smater than me

Politcal standing: (-5.38, -3.9)

IQ: 136

(-3,-4)

iq 137

-3.88
-6.67
144

-6.00 x -5.69

Last tested out at 154

There are also individuals who are good at taking tests (like myself) but who really did not do well on the day-to-day homework sort of effort.

2Wolves

Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.41
IQ: 133

I'm one of those 6 inch guys when it comes to IQ. My results on the test were:
-1
-1.49
I don't think that many of those questions are the "yes or no" variety. I scratched my head a lot.
I do not agree with my score.

Wow you are all uber-smart. Me, I guessed on EVERY question and got a 110.

i did it again and gueesd 'a' on every questoin and got a 82.

EDIT: And btw, who are some of you kidding. Socres approaching 160....please

Economic Left/Right: -5.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.03
iq: 127

IQ: 133

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.79

(-2.25, -3.38) and an IQ of 105

I randomly clicked and got.....

So I can conclude that average intelligence is just acting randomly. You know there MIGHT be something to that :p

An Inventive Inquisitor! You must've been the guy who made up all the Spanish Inquisition's torture devices.

Economic Left/Right: 3.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.92
IQ: 139

Interesting set of questions. Somwhow I ended up in the same quadrant as the Dahli Lama - go figure.

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79

IQ 120

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41

Graph here

IQ: 129
"iHawk, you are a Visual Mathematician."

3.75, 0.67

The wording of some questions presuppose the outcome and make it impossible for some to answer. For example, on page 6 the question "It's fine for society to be open about sex, but these days it's going too far" can be broken into two statements. If you disagree with the first part, you might answer "strongly disagree". That answer will be interpreted as the exact opposite of what the tester intended, though. There were a number of these type of questions.

Repost:

Since the Political compass gives historical names as reference points, I have provided a URL where one can match up the IQ scores with famous people:

http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-80790/Index.htm

HOLY SHIT! IQs around here are off the fucking charts!

It just so happens that my IQ is 277. I can tear steel with my thoughtwaves.

Let's start a "How much can you bench press?" thread real soon.