The Political Compass

emzie

emzie

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Is this really a true mark of where one might fall in the political spectrum? Are there any critques about it? There is often little context, leaving the user to fit a situation or event to the question.

I ask because I keep comming up around (-6.5,-6.5); yet I consider myself far to the right of this economically (though still left of centre).
 
I find it a rather accurate representation on me. Very right on the economy, and moderate on social issues.
 
It tends to lump answers from the extreme left and extreme right together as "centrist".

So for example, Greggor Strasser is a centrist according to the chart :D
 
I think its flaw is there's no centrist line, althoug that's not really a problem for me as I know I'm centrist anyway.
 
It fluctuates a bit everytime I take it, but an average would be somewhere around 4.0-4.5 on the horizontal and 3.0 to 3.5 on the vertical. I'm not going to take it again today, so I cannot recall which axis is for what now, but I'm way over there in the upper right.
 
Yeah there's no neutral option. No "I don't know?" option. Nor "I don't give a hoot!" option. I'm being forced to decide which is worse, inflation or unemployment. I went with unemployment, but I don't know every bad effect that comes with inflation. Really "I don't know" would have been my best option.
 
I just found out that I'm -1.63 economecly and -1.23 socailly.

Who are Thatcher and Friedmen?

I just took the test to try to be as close to hitler as possible, I got 7.88 and 7.33. Hitler is economicly central and socailly a ten so I was way off. But I did turn out to be thatcher.
 
Drool4Res-pect said:
I just found out that I'm -1.63 economecly and -1.23 socailly.

Who are Thatcher and Friedmen?
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Thatcher is a former UK PM
 
Drool4Res-pect said:
I just found out that I'm -1.63 economecly and -1.23 socailly.

Who are Thatcher and Friedmen?
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Milton Friedman is a Nobel Prize winning Economist.
 
I believe it is moderately accurate, but it's questions aren't very discerning, they really just broadly generalize. For example, I'm far more centrist than they say I am--they say -9.5, -7.5 now, where I think I'm more like -5, -5, simply due to the fact that I do support the free market, but not mega-corporations, which they seem to equate as the same thing.
 
It's annoying and innacruate, because it's idealogical and does not take praticalities into account.
 
I keep on moving further and further left on it.

:(
 
Would it help if the questions refrained from vague generalities and in turn asked about specific (fictional or real) events?
 
tomsnowman123 said:
Left is right. ;)
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Nah, I think its my hatred of George W. Bush that is clouding my thinking. I connect him to fiscal conservativism, when it is really fiscal idiocy.
 
Well, as I don't know how it calculates the score, I can't vouch for its accuracy or methods.

But there should be an "abstain" option for subjects that one has no opinion on.
 
As ever, I'm still next to bloody Gandhi. :p

Edit: While I'm here: I hate, absolutely HATE the fact that political alignment seems to be becoming the new religion. "Oh my, you're slightly left/right of me, well let's fight!"
 
My score is in my signature, where I also record my results on a different political survey (I think there's a link to it in Cuivienen's signature).
 
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