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political compass test
« on: May 20, 2009, 12:03:20 PM »
Thanks to thundley here, who found this for me.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

This test of political ideology was first posted on Skins's island.

Normally, things posted by primitives are of dubious values, but as someone who has taken professional political ideology tests administered by professionals, franksolich has found this particular one to be the best, of such "tests" roaming around the internet.

This test uses scientific measurements of ideology, and not measurements of ideology as perceived by the primitives.

Not surprisingly, the primitives have usually scored way over to the left-hand side, in the "extreme" area, while decent and civilized people who imagine themselves "conservative" usually find themselves vaguely somewhere near the middle; i.e., the mainstream.

This is mine--gotten despite my own opinions about freedom of speech and expression of religion, the Second Amendment, the inalienable right to life, frugality in governmental taxation and spending, unwavering support for the wars for the liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq, &c., &c., &c.

Which would, one assumes, make the primitives think of franksolich as some "extreme far-right-winger," when in fact franksolich is a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet.


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Re: political compass test
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2009, 12:16:46 PM »


Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 3.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.92
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2009, 08:46:16 AM »
The Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: 4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.44
 


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Re: political compass test
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2009, 08:56:18 AM »
The Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: 4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.44
 



You rabid right-wing extremist, you.
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2009, 09:09:06 AM »
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2009, 09:47:01 AM »


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Re: political compass test
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2009, 10:44:44 AM »
You rabid right-wing extremist, you.

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Re: political compass test
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2009, 10:00:42 PM »
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2009, 10:32:09 PM »
Liberals are like Slinkies...

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Re: political compass test
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2009, 10:45:00 PM »
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.13

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Re: political compass test
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2009, 03:23:19 PM »

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 5.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.03
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2009, 04:07:59 PM »
I don't think its accurate. Hitler was not on the right, he was a socialist after all.



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Re: political compass test
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2009, 04:14:22 PM »


I seem to have slid slightly rightward since the last time I took this test - I used to be almost exactly in the middle.

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Re: political compass test
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2009, 04:20:47 PM »


Above. DU, In graph form
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2009, 04:22:45 PM »


I seem to have slid slightly rightward since the last time I took this test - I used to be almost exactly in the middle.

You know, it's really weird.

I answered all of the questions in a manner which the primitives construe to be "extreme right-wing," and the test accurately portrays me as middle-of-the-road anyway.
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2009, 04:25:45 PM »
Not so weird. compared to them the average American is very right-wing

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Re: political compass test
« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2009, 06:18:20 PM »



Hmmm...I've actually moved slightly right.  But that's because I'm a right wingnut fundie, of course.   :-)
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2009, 06:34:47 PM »
thats almost exactly where I was last time - except slightly further in Libertarian

I guess this test makes us all a bunch of fundie whackjobs..

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Re: political compass test
« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2009, 07:04:06 PM »



Hmmm...I've actually moved slightly right.  But that's because I'm a right wingnut fundie, of course.   :-)

This, madam, is the Nebaska-Kansas populism in us.

I suspect what pulls us "left", into the middle, and the same thing in former U.S. Senator Robert Dole (R-Kansas), is the traditional populist mistrust of Wall Street and the northeastern states, and our concern for the environment (after all, most of our livelihoods depend upon a healthy environment).
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2009, 07:26:12 PM »

I seem to be in the same general area.  I might have moved a little in one direction or another, but not by much.
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #20 on: August 19, 2009, 04:01:40 AM »


I seemed to have moved down slightly since I got married...

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Re: political compass test
« Reply #21 on: September 17, 2009, 08:47:51 AM »
I retook the test at the suggestion of franksolich.



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Re: political compass test
« Reply #22 on: September 17, 2009, 12:14:33 PM »
The Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: 3.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.33
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Re: political compass test
« Reply #23 on: October 05, 2009, 07:24:14 PM »
Economic: 5.88
Social: 0.05

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Re: political compass test
« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2009, 08:29:01 PM »
Economic Left/Right: 3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.56


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