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http://www.politicalcompass.org/test


Interesting. Here are my results - no great surprise, as a centrist with libertarian leanings.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64
[img]http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=0.00&soc=-5.64[/img]


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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.08

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Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.00

Cuz I didn't take the test. I don't find that online tests accurately measure my political leanings as my reasoning for feeling certain ways politically are different than most people who I share the overall end result belief with.


whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.15


But, yeah, it's a dopey test. There were a fair number of loaded questions that wanted to push you to a particular answer and/or were clumsily and simplistically phrased.

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 Originally Posted By: thedoctor
Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.00

Cuz I didn't take the test. I don't find that online tests accurately measure my political leanings as my reasoning for feeling certain ways politically are different than most people who I share the overall end result belief with.


QFT. I looked over the test and it generally fails to reflect the test taker's political leanings and more accurately presents the taker's leanings as seen through the subjective eye of the test maker. So, whatever biases the creator has are reflected quite well in this test. For example, my feelings on many social issues come from my more paleo-con/libertarian position of this is none of the government's business. However, on tests like these, I'm painted as a liberal even though my own thought is that liberal readings and offerings of "protection" for such rights by their very nature inject these things into the public sphere and make them a matter of business for the government.

For what little it is worth:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.67

What kind of dumbfuck question is "which is more important businessmen or artists?"?!?

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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64

It looks like mine is close to Ghandi's.


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I never realized that Ghandi was an empty vessel who adopted whatever views the Democratic Party told him to on a given day.

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 Originally Posted By: the G-man of Zur-En-Arrh
I never realized that Ghandi was an empty vessel who adopted whatever views the Democratic Party told him to on a given day.


It's a good thing I have so little respect for your opinions


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No test which takes you no more than 10 minutes is going to be perfect, and its brevity means it is very unlikely to have controls in it. I answered it honestly, to see how I calibrate on an ostensibly impartial scale. As I said, I thought it was pretty accurate for me anyway.


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The questions were a bit loaded...

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21



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