Political Compass: Where do you fall?

Economic Left/Right: 0.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

I am more of a libertarian than you as indicted by my score of -6.97 and (in all likelihood) more financially savvy as indicated by my score of 0.12.

I think I've taken this test before.. so I wasn't surprised. In fact I've been trying to remember recently where I saw these graphics, besides that Craven brought them up at some point in a2k's early years.

Anyway, I'm -4.12 on Eco/LR and -7.64 on SocL/Auth -- which puts me somewhat south of the Dalai Lama. Cough.

Here's a thread on it from 2003 -

http://www.able2know.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=483303#483303

I haven't looked at all the pages on it to see if I posted earlier scores. As far as I've read, I agree with a lot of folks' comments about the test.

Cool! Forfun I might plot out the results of the two threads and post it on one of my blogs in a few days.

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We've had other recent threads on this too. I think I've already taken 3 political quizzes. I'll take it again...........

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67

And, on the thread I linked, Craven linked others, I dunno what page.

Among other variables, sometimes I just said I disagree, as opposed to extremely disagree, whatever the phrase was. I was clear on my entire disagreement when it move on from econ, never my forte.

I do think there could be better tests of a more complex sort, starting with a place to choose middle, instead of apparent outrageous(?) ideas to various sides, though they should be in there. Maybe a test built on middle (oh, but where?) and then moving outward. I remember wavering when I felt middle and choosing near haphazardly, and no, not always left.

All very smudgey, but interesting.

and once again I wonder what I'd do if I had to vote in the U.S.

right, right or unelectable
great options




I'm southwest of Kucinich again. It varies month by month - sometimes I'm on Kucinich's knee, sometimes I'm further south on the libertarian scale.

I ended up on the "n" in "Kucinich" in ehBeth's pic...

Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.18

EhBeth, I'm way south of both of those and I'm from the US. I think I'm two or three flicks directly south of the Dalai Lama. On today's test, anyway. I figure that is from my non adamance on econ, and that my natural place is somewhat, but not all that far, to the left of that.

Sure, it's a perplexity living in interesting times and places. You are indeed lucky, ehBeth, to have a cultural group around you of some comfort.

Economic -3.75 social -2.56
No wonder I prefer Kucinich. I am almost in the same place as him according to the graph.

I'm compiling! Keep them coming!

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Of the many variations of this test living on the internet, this must be one of the worst. Between a third and half of the questions made me want to answer: "Not applicable: Underlying assumption incorrect" or "Not applicable: False choice". For the sake of producing some result, though, I consistently chose "disagree" whenever my true answer would have been "not applicable". The test identified me as a libertarian, as expected.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

Do you know of any that you particularly favor?

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Haven't taken the test.

Since it identifies nearly all the candidates as populating the political 'Right' , I think we can toss it's accuracy.

I am lower left to Nader.

Indulge us.

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