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Yuri
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 Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:12 pm Post subject: Take the Political Compass Test |
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| Quote: | Welcome to The Political Compass™
There's abundant evidence for the need of it. The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left', established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape. For example, who are the 'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of conservatives like Margaret Thatcher ?
On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as 'right-wingers', yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook.
That's about as much as we should tell you for now. After you've responded to the following propositions during the next 3-5 minutes, all will be explained. In each instance, you're asked to choose the response that best describes your feeling: Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree or Strongly Agree. At the end of the test, you'll be given the compass, with your own special position on it.
The test presented on this website is entirely anonymous. None of your personal details are required, and nothing about your result is recorded or logged in any way. The answers are only used to calculate your reading, and cannot be accessed by anyone, ever. |
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Yuri
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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My scores:
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Truthie
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Well here I am again, stuck in the corner with you... I seem to have drifted left- and down-ward since the last time.
-8.25 economic
-7.03 social |
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Yuri
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Oooh. -8.25 economic. That's pretty hardcore. I'm impressed. 
More context, based on the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections:
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SocialistScott
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject: stuck in that same corner |
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Move over guys here comes company! 
The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.77 |
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Truthie
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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I would have been disappointed, SocialistScott, if your result was different. 
Actually, I can't believe anyone would answer in such a manner as to put him/herself in the upper right quadrant. It would seem impossible, with that set of questions. Must be a huge score difference between the "strongly agree" and "agree" selections.
What's with the Obama score!!!  Those guys don't score themselves, so who does it for them, and what do they use for data? Oh never mind, the website answers this and a bunch of other interesting questions!
(I'll never finish editing this post, I see. Sorry, I removed the bit about the Meyers-Briggs test in which I came out, like Donald Rumsfeld, an INTJ. I think there's an online version of that, too.)
Also, someone could make a "cloud of friends" based on this test, if they were inclined to use facebook, which I am probably never, ever, EVER going to use. (http://apps.facebook.com/thepoliticalcompass/friendscloud.php)
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SocialistScott
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject: I don't |
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The movements and collectives that I am involved with contend that the MAJORITY of people are social-Anarchists in nature.
We work towards our own best interests.
I am an ENFJ! |
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SocialistScott
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject: Actually |
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| Unless you have convinced yourself otherwise, Anarchists can only be social. |
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Tom
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:43 am Post subject: |
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Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92
Don't know why, but I couldn't get my graph to post.
If you go to the lower left corner, and count four spots in the diaganal upward direction.... that is my 'hood."
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Yuri
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| Tom wrote: | | Don't know why, but I couldn't get my graph to post. |
I didn't mean to give the impression that the site allows one to create a postable graph. The one that I posted is a screen capture.
| Tom wrote: | | If you go to the lower left corner, and count four spots in the diaganal upward direction.... that is my 'hood." |
Howdy, neighbor. |
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Yuri
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:45 am Post subject: Re: stuck in that same corner |
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| SocialistScott wrote: | Economic Left/Right: -8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.77 |
Your scores reflect your posts in the forum. I'm glad to see you didn't fall off the lower left side of the graph. |
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Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64
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PumpkinSmasher
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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ELR:8.75
Right: 1.26
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Bill Frank
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Economic: -8.50
Social: -7.38
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Truthie
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| My husband: -6.5 on both scores. (We do have a very politically harmonious household, including our children and inlaws - and neighbors!) He thinks the answers should be so obvious that he wondered if it was a "push poll". I'd like to ask our pumpkin friend how he came out so different from the rest of us? This is not meant to cast aspersions, I'm just curious because apparently nobody in my immediate circle of friends and family would leave the lower left quadrant without being tortured! |
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PumpkinSmasher
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It is still in the green just getting close to the red. I am more left than our current president and vp. A lot more.
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AZBlindRage
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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economic left/right -8.75
social libertarian/authoritarian -6.97 |
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tanuki
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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Figured I'd start out here by getting an official determination of my place on the socio-political landscape. Looks like I'm pretty solidly in that sunny SW corner of the SW corner. Nice to be among friends.
Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95
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Yuri
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Welcome to the Malloy board, tanuki. |
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Don Smith
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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ec-9.88
so-7,85
Couldn't quite get off the chart...
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