The Political Compass

[DukeLeto]

I din't really like that one; way too short. Still, I got left-liberal.

Your Personal Self-Government Score is 90%.

Your Economic Self-Government Score is 20%.

Wish they explained what the percentages mean a little better, though.

[Birdfolly]

Economic Left/Right: -10.00

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -8.97

I agree that the questions were definately geared toward the left. The chart that they showed with the British politicians, I'm sure was based on what the writers thought their actions would translate to in this survey. The way the questions were presented made it hard to feel right about picking many of the conservative viewpoints. But maybe that's just me, my score is out there!

[DukeLeto]

Here are some examples leto the leftist:

"I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong."

So conservatives are willing to support their country regardless of morality and liberals will always champion what's right?

Total leftist bull.

Doi you support Bush's going to war with Iraq? Yah? Well, did you answer "agree" to that? No? Then you lied. ::)

[number6]

The only problem with your last statement is that right or wrong is context sensitive. A liberal sees right and wrong differently than a conservative. The question on the test assumes right as "left" and wrong as "right". You are saying that because someone supported Bush during the Iraq war that person supported the country when it's wrong? That's a perspective thing and not quantifiable. As I have said before the questions make no sense.

[DukeLeto]

The only problem with your last statement is that right or wrong is context sensitive. A liberal sees right and wrong differently than a conservative. The question on the test assumes right as "left" and wrong as "right". You are saying that because someone supported Bush during the Iraq war that person supported the country when it's wrong? That's a perspective thing and not quantifiable. As I have said before the questions make no sense.

Ah, but 90% of the world thinks Bush is wrong. Thusly, we can assume that he is wrong with simple averages.

Anyways, I didn't like your test. You can't accurately evealuate someone's political and economic attitudes with 10 questions. besides, some of those were rather weighted, too. I mean, "All foreign aid should be privately funded."? What type of question is that?

[ordos45]

Economic Left/Right: -4.62

Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.00

Of the major leaders its mentioned of the century, I more or less fell directly on top of Gandhi, one of my personal favorite nonconformists of the century.

[Acriku]

I'm sure somewhere along the line, 90% of the people in the world thought Christianity or any other religion for that matter, was right. The point is, that it doesn't matter if 100% people believe something, it doesn't make it right. It does in their context, but if you are an alien looking at them all believing something - does it?

[ordos45]

Umm...was that a reply to someone else? Because Gandhi was Hindu.

[Acriku]

Towards DukeLeto's proposition that since 90% of the people believe Bush to be wrong, he is wrong.

[SurlyPIG]

Ah, but 90% of the world thinks Bush is wrong. Thusly, we can assume that he is wrong with simple averages.

BS. Nothing recent says that. You aren't even in the ballpark. Even if you were it means nothing. 90% of Americans at one time or another thought slavery was ok and I'll bet a lot more than 90% of Germans thought Nazism was right at the time. And exactly how are you able to absolutely poll the millions of people under dictatorial rule to reach that 'global' statistic? You think their government speaks for them? Hogwash. Pure hogwash.

That's terrible logic. People need to learn to think for themselves instead of "Oh, he says this is bad and so does this guy and all these people so it MUST be wrong! It's GOT to be!"

[number6]

The only problem with your last statement is that right or wrong is context sensitive. A liberal sees right and wrong differently than a conservative. The question on the test assumes right as "left" and wrong as "right". You are saying that because someone supported Bush during the Iraq war that person supported the country when it's wrong? That's a perspective thing and not quantifiable. As I have said before the questions make no sense.

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Anyways, I didn't like your test. You can't accurately evealuate someone's political and economic attitudes with 10 questions. besides, some of those were rather weighted, too. I mean, "All foreign aid should be privately funded."? What type of question is that?

You think that question is weighted? I think that question is straightforward and is in no way biased. Either you think aid to foriegn countries should be funded by companies or the opposite would be you think the government should. It's not a moral question where one answer makes you a bad person and the opposite makes you good. It's a valid political question. Only 10 questions you say? Well at least they are 10 legitimate questions. I had a hard time finding 5 questions that I could answer without bias on the polictalcompass quiz. "Size matters not" as Yoda would say.

[DukeLeto]

"Astrology accurately explains many things."

"Religion and morality are closely linked."

"Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged."

"Some people are naturally unlucky."

"Faith-based schools have a positive role to play in our education system."

There's five right there that, IMO, are very unbiased questions. And they're all from one page!

Though I think an "undecided" option would have been nice.

[number6]

"Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged."

That's the only question that you provided that is remotely close to belonging in a political quiz. The rest are moral or commen sense questions. Again I ask the question: "Questions like the one below will build a political profile of me?"

"Astrology accurately explains many things."

How is this question computed into the score when you answer "Strongly Agree"?

How did you answer that question Leto?

Again you have proven nothing to me.

[Acriku]

I personally don't see how religion issues can affect or represent your political stance. Ethics, maybe but then again even those under the same classification have different ethics.

[SurlyPIG]

Hehe Acriku beat me to it. I concur.

"Religion and morality are closely linked."

How can that possibly be indicative of your political stance or your economic stance?

[DukeLeto]

"liberal" and "conservative" don't apply solely to political stances.

[number6]

<-- Raises his hands in disgust. Leto, you are definitely

"Stone Deaf"

[SurlyPIG]

"liberal" and "conservative" don't apply solely to political stances.

And religion does??? BS. At least half the questions on that test were terrible.

[Chani]

Of the major leaders its mentioned of the century, I more or less fell directly on top of Gandhi, one of my personal favorite nonconformists of the century.

I was very close to Gandhi too. hat made me happy : )

However when I looked at anothergrid I was also very close to HH Dalai Lama, which made me even happier : )

[Edric O]

Well, this is how I answered them:

"Astrology accurately explains many things." - Strongly Disagree

"Religion and morality are closely linked." - Strongly Agree

"Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged." - Disagree

"Some people are naturally unlucky." - Strongly Disagree

"Faith-based schools have a positive role to play in our education system." - Strongly Agree

[DukeLeto]

"liberal" and "conservative" don't apply solely to political stances.

And religion does??? BS. At least half the questions on that test were terrible.

Dude, I mean that religion factors into "liberal" and "conservative". ::)

[SurlyPIG]

How? How can you possibly make such a connection?