Political Compass

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Go here:

http://politicalcompass.org (http://politicalcompass.org/)

and post your score!!

(Sorry if this is a repeat)

(This is somewhat of a followup to this thread: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=158727
)

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Hmmm...I just noticed in the first question that it is a bit biased towards the liberal answers being the "right" ones.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

This might be a better test:

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-politics-test

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Well, here's how I did on the second test:
Social Liberal

You scored 70% Personal Liberty and 31% Economic Liberty!

A social liberal believes in little to moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate to high government intervention on economic matters. They tend to be opposed to war, police powers, victimless crimes, and what they may consider to be a corporate state or rogue capitalism. They generally support personal liberty and believe in a social safety net or welfare state. They support self-ownership and privacy. Social liberals are essentially the "mainstream" left and left of center.

http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/250x250/250x250/0x0/0x0/0/1014856008466562761

http://www.okcupid.com/quizzy/results?quizzyid=1391298482069756899&userid=

[Shearwater]

Hmmm...I just noticed in the first question that it is a bit biased towards the liberal answers being the "right" ones.

According to them, almost every politician seems to be gravitating towards 'right wing authoritarian' (including Obama, btw).
The site appears to be pretty anti-right, if you will - you have to be pretty on the left until they say you're 'left'. And note that I scored in the bottom left when I answered the questions (i.e. Libertarian Left, and I'm quite comfortable with that). Being left is perfectly fine, but they have some strange definitions of being left ...

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9817/statesbysenatorphp.png

That's the result for all of the US Senators' positions (http://politicalcompass.org/usstates?al=on&ak=on&az=on&ar=on&ca=on&co=on&ct=on&de=on&fl=on&ga=on&hi=on&id=on&il=on&in=on&ia=on&ks=on&ky=on&la=on&me=on&md=on&ma=on&mi=on&mn=on&ms=on&mo=on&mt=on&ne=on&nv=on&nh=on&nj=on&nm=on&ny=on&nc=on&nd=on&oh=on&ok=on&or=on&pa=on&ri=on&sc=on&sd=on&tn=on&tx=on&ut=on&vt=on&va=on&wa=on&wv=on&wi=on&wy=on). All of 'em neatly crammed in the upper right square.
Seems like the center of US politics is pretty much off-center :roll:

[Sailor Steve]

Of course it's a repeat, and one was done here about a month ago.

Here's my result from that one.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/pcgraphpng-1.png

[nikimcbee]

Now that's a long test with a handful of weird questions:doh:. It would be fun to do that test with interperating the Constitution.:know:

[Sailor Steve]

Paleo-Liberal

You scored 70% Personal Liberty and 57% Economic Liberty!

A paleo-liberal believes in low to moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate government intervention on economic matters. They tend to be opposed to war, police powers and victimless crimes. They believe in a social safety net, but to a lesser extent then most leftists. They generally believe in protecting personal liberty. They support self-ownership and privacy. Some Paleo-liberals may lean towards embracing capitalism as an economic system. Paleo-liberals are reminiscent of the attitude of the "new left" of the 60's and 70's. Strong Paleo-Liberals border on Libertarianism.

Some of that is close, some not even a little bit. I'm not against victimless crimes - I think there should be no laws against drug use and prostitution. Some of the rest is fairly close. You think this may be a "better test"?

[Skybird]

Ah, is it that time of the year again...? :DL

[onelifecrisis]

Well I did the test from the OP and it came out roughly where I expected:

http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.12&soc=-4.05

[antikristuseke]

Paleo-Liberal

You scored 71% Personal Liberty and 43% Economic Liberty!
A paleo-liberal believes in low to moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate government intervention on economic matters. They tend to be opposed to war, police powers and victimless crimes. They believe in a social safety net, but to a lesser extent then most leftists. They generally believe in protecting personal liberty. They support self-ownership and privacy. Some Paleo-liberals may lean towards embracing capitalism as an economic system. Paleo-liberals are reminiscent of the attitude of the "new left" of the 60's and 70's. Strong Paleo-Liberals border on Libertarianism.

[Stealth Hunter]

http://i25.tinypic.com/2r6yz2h.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/8wftqh.jpg


Haha, I got dibs on Gandhi.

[Snestorm]

I tryed to copy the picture, and set it in here, but it wouldn't take. (I still have much to learn). The link to the picture, however, did take.

http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-1.00&soc=-1.38

From the center, they placed me 1 line left, and 1 and a third lines down.

Hmmm. And I always seem to be labeled Far Right. Very interesting.
Perhaps the Far Left is a little to fast to label people as "right wing extremests"?

[Stealth Hunter]

Paleo-Liberal

You scored 70% Personal Liberty and 44% Economic Liberty!


A paleo-liberal believes in low to moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate government intervention on economic matters. They tend to be opposed to war, police powers and victimless crimes. They believe in a social safety net, but to a lesser extent then most leftists. They generally believe in protecting personal liberty. They support self-ownership and privacy. Some Paleo-liberals may lean towards embracing capitalism as an economic system. Paleo-liberals are reminiscent of the attitude of the "new left" of the 60's and 70's. Strong Paleo-Liberals border on Libertarianism.

[Snestorm]

OK. Here's the second test.

Here's how I show up on the graph:
http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/250x250/250x250/0x0/0x0/0/11654520581412517319

Total Result:
http://www.okcupid.com/quizzy/results?quizzyid=1391298482

The results are quite different from the first quiz!

Darn, I can't upload the graph pictures.
If anyone can, and would be kind enough to, post both of my result graphs, from these links, I'd be very grateful. I guess it could be titled "Snestorm Results".

About 82% on both personal and economic freedom!
And right up the center of Left and Right? Interesting.

[Platapus]

I have serious problems with the Okcupid test.

2. The Federal Government should spend more on welfare programs.

More? more than what? How can one answer this question if we don't know what the more is in relation to?

4. We need to raise taxes on the rich.

I can't answer this as agree or disagree. My answer is that we need to cut spending

6. The Patriot Act is a violation of our individual rights.

The USPATRIOT Act is not a violation of our individual rights. The USPATRIOT Act had the potential of violating our rights if it was abused. How can this question be answered (Agree/disagree)?

10 Gun control is a useful tool for fighting crime.

Depends on how "gun control" is defined. If it means enforcing existing laws, that's one thing. If it means additional laws, that's another. If it means infringing on the Second Amendment, that's yet another matter. Unless "gun control" is defined, different people taking this survey will answer this differently.

13. The federal government should cut spending by at least 1/3 or 1/4.

Well that depends on where the cuts will be. Without them being defined, different people will answer differently. Are we talking about an across board cut or cuts of specific areas??

15. People have an obligation to live up to society's standards.

Sheesh, and where are these standards defined and who gave them the right to define "society's standards"? Dumb question

I found similar issues with the rest of the questions to the point I was unwilling to complete it. :down:

[VonHesse]

I scored right in between Stalin and Gandhi...:arrgh!:

[Torvald Von Mansee]

http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.00&soc=-5.44

Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44


This one makes me more extreme than the other test.

[onelifecrisis]

Haha, I got dibs on Gandhi.

From that pic... you are Ghandi! :rotfl2:

[TarJak]

I have serious problems with the Okcupid test.
So do I. It is so skewed to US residents that it has almost no value for anyone else on the planet.

[JU_88]

^Yes, questions like the one about abortion isnt even a matter of national debate here in the UK.
There are anti abortion groups and the church, but there numbers are not significant enough to have any real impact on the system.
At the other end of the spetrum: Gun laws, -which is, either have a licensed firearm or an illegal one.

[Blacklight]

And I guess this is why I butt heads with so many conservatives here. :DL


http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/129/pcgraphpngphp.png

[TFatseas]

I took the Political Compass test the last time around, and it scored me about center right.

The OkCupid test said:


Libertarian

You scored 72% Personal Liberty and 72% Economic Liberty!

A libertarian believes in little to moderate government intervention on both personal and economic matters....




While I tend to agree on the results of the OKCupid test more, it is said that "...there are both sides to the issue and the truth lays somewhere in the middle."

Besides I know my own political beliefs more than what some test off the internet can tell me.