This questionnaire has serious flaws (like any 'what are you' questionnaires) but is interesting to play with. It certainly beats the usual left-right scale though.
It landed me in the Social Libertarian Economic Right; the fourth quadrant of the chart (where I would have thought).
You don't have to post your results.
Edit: But if you do, and there are enough coordinates, I might be able to graph them. It might be an interesting statistical study, and we could settle those arguments over whether Hatrack is liberal etc. On the other hand, it might be creepy. Please discuss.
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We've discussed this here before. The compass lands almost everyone in a libertarian category.
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Economic Left/Right: 2.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.64
I might have had a slightly different score if there was a neutral category. I had to pick an agree or disagree several times when I really would have prefered something in between.
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Euripides- The hatrack search engine is notorius for being awful. I just spent a long time searching for the hug thread and couldn't find it, although I found several on Hugh Laurie.
I wasn't faulting you for posting it, I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware that it was biased.
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I believe it's The World's Smallest Political Quiz that has a libertarian bias, not The Political Compass.
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The Political Compass is reputed to have a Libertarian bias. The source code is not available, so it can't be verified that way. Hence the Political Survey linked above.
So, no interest in a Hatrack graph? Perhaps if we use the second questionnaire?
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I've had so many of my own difficulties with the search engine that I don't blame others for not finding things.
Also, I think a lot of the time it was best that the original thread stay dead, and I'm very upset when someone brings it back to post something that could have very well been its own thread. I remember a time recently in particular when an old, very acrimonious thread I'd been involved in was resurrected to post a semi-related bit of news. I didn't appreciate living again through a fight that had taken me a long time to get over originally.
Which is really just a semi-related rant that I've never been able to use, so sorry.
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*makes mental note to bump this thread in a year for Kara, so that she may relive this mini-rant*
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Fascnating. Great link Euripides, I'd not seen it before. Apparently I am somewhere between Nelson Mandela, Ghandi and the Dalai Lama:
Economic Left/Right: -4.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92
So, two terrorists and a religous agitator. My TSA file will be flagged and I'll be carted off to Gitmo next time I try and enter the US of A.....
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Economic Left/Right: -7.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08
I believe that puts me further left than anyone in the thread. While I'm certainly a social libertarian, I definitely have an authoritarian bent in other areas. These quizzes usually peg me as a liberal authoritarian -- actually, I may have some old results in a couple of those links. I'll check later. Anyway, specifying social libertarianism separately is probably more accurate.
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I tried taking it, but couldn't even get started. The first question was:
quote:If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.
What's that about? It starts with a premise that is ridiculous on the face of it, and then asks whether we should be slaves to "society" or corporations.
No thanks, I prefer not to serve.
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That's fine. That was one of the questions that bugged me too; 'Are you an idealistic socialist philanthrope or a greedy unprincipled capitalist?'
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Economic Left/Right: -3.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00
I'm surprised I wasn't placed further left/libertarian than I was. I must be feeling sick or something. Posts: 1321 | Registered: Sep 1999
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This thing is inherently flawed. Too many of the questions fail to separate what I think is moral/good from what I think the government should do.
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Economic Left/Right: -2.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41
I think it was a fatally flawed in a lot of ways too, but it's just a quiz. Since these quizzes usually try to tell me what astrological sign is my soul mate, I don't expect much out of a political affiliation quiz.
From the same quiz two years ago (almost to the day):
quote:Economic Left/Right: -5.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33
Your scored -2 on the Moral Order axis and -8 on the Moral Rules axis.
Matches
The following items best match your score:
1. System: Liberalism 2. Variation: Economic Liberalism 3. Ideologies: Ultra Liberalism 4. US Parties: No match. 5. Presidents: Ronald Reagan (80.24%) 6. 2004 Election Candidates: John Kerry (73.12%), George W. Bush (66.34%), Ralph Nader (56.47%)
Statistics
Of the 279550 people who took the test:
1. 0.1% had the same score as you. 2. 98.8% were above you on the chart. 3. 0% were below you on the chart. 4. 48.7% were to your right on the chart. 5. 30.5% were to your left on the chart.
System: Authoritarianism Variation: Moderate Authoritarianism Ideologies: Social Republicanism US Parties: No match. Presidents: Gerald Ford (76.93%) 2004 Election Candidates: John Kerry (73.39%), Ralph Nader (66.56%), George W. Bush (65.41%)
0.2% had the same score as you. 17.6% were above you on the chart. 69.9% were below you on the chart. 22.8% were to your right on the chart. 71.4% were to your left on the chart.
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Omigod, is that Moral Politics thing messed up.
quote:Your Score
Your scored -1.5 on the Moral Order axis and -5.5 on the Moral Rules axis.
Matches
The following items best match your score:
System: Liberalism Variation: Economic Liberalism Ideologies: Progressive NeoLiberalism US Parties: No match. Presidents: Bill Clinton (88.95%) 2004 Election Candidates: John Kerry (83.17%), George W. Bush (71.19%), Ralph Nader (65.06%)
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Any quiz that has Lisa as a Bill Clinton voting Liberal and me as a social Republican needs to get its head reexamined.
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I agree that the Moral Politics thing seems sort of broke.
quote:Your Score Your scored -0.5 on the Moral Order axis and -2.5 on the Moral Rules axis.
Matches The following items best match your score: System: Liberalism Variation: Moderate Liberalism Ideologies: Capital Democratism US Parties: Democratic Party Presidents: Gerald Ford (96.88%) 2004 Election Candidates: John Kerry (88.73%), George W. Bush (73.30%), Ralph Nader (71.19%)
Your scored -3.5 on the Moral Order axis and -3 on the Moral Rules axis.
Matches
The following items best match your score:
1. System: Liberalism 2. Variation: Moderate Liberalism 3. Ideologies: Capital Democratism 4. US Parties: Democratic Party 5. Presidents: Bill Clinton (96.88%) 6. 2004 Election Candidates: John Kerry (95.06%), Ralph Nader (79.15%), George W. Bush (61.41%)
Statistics
Of the 279725 people who took the test:
1. 0.4% had the same score as you. 2. 69.8% were above you on the chart. 3. 25% were below you on the chart. 4. 69.5% were to your right on the chart. 5. 22.5% were to your left on the chart.
The Moral Politics quiz pegged me fairly accurately, although I seem to be the only one who thought so.
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