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Title: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: evolve on July 27, 2011, 07:02:30 PM take the test here: http://www.politicalcompass.org/test http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/internationalchart.gif my results: http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-5.75&soc=-3.85 Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: myrkul on July 27, 2011, 07:23:16 PM This is a little backwards from what I'm used to seeing (The Nolan Chart), but I think that may be a good thing. Removes some of the bias.
You'll find me due south, and straight on til morning. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: ascent on July 27, 2011, 07:29:05 PM You'll find me due south, and straight on til morning. You're such a proud one. You wear your ideology like a costume. And a costume is what it is. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Bitcoin_Silver_Supply on July 27, 2011, 10:19:09 PM A great number of questions in the political compass are flawed and geared towards the conventional left/right paradigm, which is why so few people end up in the "libertarian right."
Despite this, whenever I grind my teeth through their test I tend to end up around the middle of the libertarian right zone. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: grantbdev on July 27, 2011, 10:42:52 PM Libertarian-left
Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Sannyasi on July 27, 2011, 11:09:21 PM A great number of questions in the political compass are flawed and geared towards the conventional left/right paradigm, which is why so few people end up in the "libertarian right." Despite this, whenever I grind my teeth through their test I tend to end up around the middle of the libertarian right zone. i noticed the same thing- quite bias but still fun... seems im more of a lefty libertarian that mr dali llama..... Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: rainingbitcoins on July 28, 2011, 04:04:13 AM I took this a while back. I was all the way to the left and about three or four squares down. But some of the questions weren't nearly specific enough and depending on your interpretation of the question or the circumstances the question could be applied to, my answer would have changed. Still, close enough.
Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: nafai on July 28, 2011, 04:30:54 AM I started to take the test and couldn't get past the first page because the questions all seem loaded.
"No one chooses his or her country of birth, so it's foolish to be proud of it." Agree or disagree? "Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races. " Agree or disagree? "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Agree or disagree? Ridiculous questions that either seem loaded or politically irrelevant if you ask me Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: myrkul on July 28, 2011, 04:42:51 AM Well, this one is also a little biased, but at least it's not biased left/right:
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: evolve on July 28, 2011, 05:13:14 AM Well, this one is also a little biased, but at least it's not biased left/right: http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz i got 80/30; pretty much the center of the liberal section Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Xephan on July 28, 2011, 05:31:35 AM Interesting, I'm a moderate economic left and social centrist on the first, but a moderate right libertarian on the other :D
Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Bitcoin_Silver_Supply on July 28, 2011, 07:16:05 AM A great number of questions in the political compass are flawed and geared towards the conventional left/right paradigm, which is why so few people end up in the "libertarian right." Despite this, whenever I grind my teeth through their test I tend to end up around the middle of the libertarian right zone. i noticed the same thing- quite bias but still fun... seems im more of a lefty libertarian that mr dali llama..... Beyond just being biased, it fails to take into consideration how people can hold personal views without calling upon society to do anything about them. Someone may think that sex outside of marriage is the most immoral thing a person could do without believing that any state measures should be taken to regulate such, but they would still be thrown up the "fascism scale" for such. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: BioMike on July 28, 2011, 08:05:13 AM Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33 So, around Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: wumpus on July 28, 2011, 09:29:59 AM Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67 WOohoo, I'm pretty close to the Dalai Lama :-) Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: GideonGono on July 28, 2011, 09:48:51 AM Economic Left/Right: 4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.0x10^1,000 ;D Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: m0Ray on July 28, 2011, 10:57:52 AM Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.36 That's strange. I passed an analogous test in russian, and got ultra-right position... Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: compro01 on July 28, 2011, 02:39:20 PM Well, this one is also a little biased, but at least it's not biased left/right: http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz 80/30 (liberal) on that one. http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.75&soc=-6.10 Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: LastBattle on July 28, 2011, 05:10:37 PM Economic Left/Right: 8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36 http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=8.62&soc=-4.36 Yeah, far right and quite libertarian. Frankly though, a lot of these questions are loaded. Several times it seems to give you the option of either the state doing A or the state doing B with no option to say that it is a matter of personal preference (look at a lot of the third section) Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: cbeast on July 28, 2011, 06:32:33 PM Two-dimensional compasses are so 19th Century, and very undependable. I choose the bright light of science to go where I will.
Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Quantus on July 28, 2011, 06:36:51 PM I'm a Utopianist, and a cynic of every thing that is now.
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/9798/unledhrk.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/unledhrk.png/) Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: The Script on July 31, 2011, 09:45:52 PM Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: The Script on July 31, 2011, 09:47:10 PM Two-dimensional compasses are so 19th Century, and very undependable. I choose the bright light of science to go where I will. As a former Math Prof. of mine would say: "Well aren't you something!" Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: myrkul on July 31, 2011, 09:48:34 PM Wait, What?!? Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: The Script on July 31, 2011, 09:52:45 PM Wait, What?!? I know. I've failed the Fuehrer. I'm 2 grid points too low and to the left. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: myrkul on July 31, 2011, 09:58:56 PM Wait, What?!? I know. I've failed the Fuehrer. I'm 2 grid points too low and to the left. That test is so full of fail. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: The Script on July 31, 2011, 10:04:22 PM Wait, What?!? I know. I've failed the Fuehrer. I'm 2 grid points too low and to the left. That test is so full of fail. Ha ha, which is why I don't take them seriously. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: niemivh on August 24, 2011, 05:30:33 AM Charts like this are cute but don't deal in specifics so two people in the exact same spot on the chart could literally disagree on 80% of what they think should be done.
Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: FlipPro on August 25, 2011, 01:53:28 AM Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.10 Pretty accurate. Just gotta be honest with yourself, and the questions. Socially I am a socialist. Economically I feel that I am pretty centrist. http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.75&soc=-2.10 Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: MatthewLM on August 25, 2011, 02:17:29 PM The test is stupid, very stupid. If lower on the graph represents higher civil liberties and more right respresents more economic liberties such as property rights then I'd go here:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=10&soc=-10 Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: FlipPro on August 25, 2011, 11:15:16 PM The test is stupid, very stupid. If lower on the graph represents higher civil liberties and more right respresents more economic liberties such as property rights then I'd go here: LOL :) Then I think that chart is PRETTY accurately representing you...http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=10&soc=-10 Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: AyeYo on August 26, 2011, 01:47:21 AM HAHAHA! RIGHT ON THE MONEY! Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: The Script on August 26, 2011, 08:31:09 AM HAHAHA! RIGHT ON THE MONEY! I'm glad someone appreciates my attempt at humor? Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Nicolai Larsen on August 27, 2011, 08:25:00 AM Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Vitalik Buterin on September 05, 2011, 11:27:38 AM The test is stupid, very stupid. If lower on the graph represents higher civil liberties and more right respresents more economic liberties such as property rights then I'd go here: Not all people agree on what "economic liberties" are. For some people, their idea of economic liberty is what you call trespass. For some people, the right to monopolize the product of your intellectual labor is just as legitimate as the right to physical property, and they might even have a point - in terms of economic impact, sneaking into movie theaters (trespass) and copyright infringement for personal use can get scarily similar to each other. For other people, this same logic is why only consumptive use of someone else's property should constitute a property rights violation, and from there it's only two steps to Proudhonianism (lower left corner on this scale). Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: MatthewLM on September 05, 2011, 10:08:57 PM Freedoms to destroy freedoms can not cause freedom.
Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: niko on September 07, 2011, 06:17:41 AM Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Bind on September 07, 2011, 08:12:02 AM Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: SuperTramp on September 07, 2011, 11:06:27 AM WOW, very nice !! You guys all got those colorful charts and what not. Mine just came back as text.
It said: "You Sir Are An ASSHOLE." "Please Do NOT Visit This Site Again." WTF ? O' well. -ST Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Vitalik Buterin on September 08, 2011, 12:50:54 PM Freedoms to destroy freedoms can not cause freedom. The problem is that that's a circular argument. If you believe that being able to fence off any land you grab before anyone else is a freedom, then yes, trespass is a violation of that freedom. But what if you believe that the key freedom is the freedom to use whatever natural (ie. not other people's labor) resources you want? Then the fence becomes a violation of freedom. As long as there are multiple people who want to use the same resource it's necessary for all but one of the people to be blocked. Is it the first one to get to that particular resource that gets lucky? Is it the first one to build a fence around the area of nature that produces the resource? Does it depend on who has not taken their fair share of nature's production yet? Unless you can justify your theory as to what the "just coercion" is, then you have to accept that your theory is no better than anyone else's. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: zmcmoto1 on September 08, 2011, 04:13:57 PM Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21 Not worth much to me. For instance, if I believe abortion is always murder the test aligns me as authoritarian/right. I don't believe that stance is authoritarian because I see it as defending a person who can't defend their self rather than a protection of an individual's(the mother) rights. So what makes this test unreliable is that the test maker aligns answers with views different than the test taker intended the answer to mean. Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Bind on September 08, 2011, 04:36:42 PM whoever created the test certainly has opinions.
this is not a test without partisan bias IMO Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: niko on September 08, 2011, 11:38:37 PM whoever created the test certainly has opinions. this is not a test without partisan bias IMO What do you mean? Title: Re: Where do you fall on the political compass? Post by: Rassah on September 09, 2011, 08:16:11 PM At least it's nice to see that no one (seriously) got a result above the horizontal.
Mine kinda surprised me http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=3.62&soc=-6.77 I was quite convinced that I'd be on the left side, and was somewhat more pro Keynesian regulation just 6 years ago (though still considered myself socially liberal and economically conservative). What have you done to me, Bitcoin!? |
