Economic Left/Right: -5.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26
Swung slightly to the right (something like -7 when I last took it) and major swing toward the Libertarian (originally something like -3) though oddly I feel since I would have last taken the test I've drifted away from some elements of social libertarianism.
Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36
Can we rant about the questions:
People are ultimately divided more by class than by nationality.
What does this mean?
The state imposes greater barriers between those who are in different countries than those within the same country, they are called borders
Peoples needs, desires and motivations are more common between those in similar economic conditions than those in the same country
A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies.
This is more to do with the definition of "free market" than any individuals politics
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
Is a thing people say and do, what is the question? Is the Taliban an appropriate legislative system?
It’s natural for children to keep some secrets from their parents.
There is strong evidence for intentional dishonesty in non-human primates. Are they asking if you have read the paper?
There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures.
Are they just asking if UFC/Tatmadaw exist? I guess they mean are some people more predisposed to savagery, and are some people more predisposed to be civilised, but that is not what they say.
Multinational companies are unethically exploiting the plant genetic resources of developing countries.
So the one specific economic question they ask is a really esoteric and technical intellectual property law one? And they ask it in a way that applies ethics to commercial behaviour in a way that kind of never comes up in the real world?
Astrology accurately explains many things.
I mean, where the planets are? I think they mean predict terrestrial behaviour, but that is not at all what they say.
Some people are naturally unlucky.
What are they getting at?
Some people draw a worse hand in life than others
There are some people who, if they do a coin toss and need a head, are actually more likely to throw a tail?
No one can feel naturally homosexual.
What does "feeling homosexual" feel like? Surely they mean can be naturally sexually attracted to someone of the same sex, but that is not what they say and what does "natural" mean in this situation? What would unnaturally feeling homosexual feel like, and how could anyone distinguish the two?
I have problems with the questions too: is what is good for big business good for the people? Well, there are cases where I would answer yes and cases where I would answer no. Big companies, acting in their rational self-interest, will lobby for policies favorable to them at the expense of the population even if the good ultimately produced provides some benefit for society.
There’s also no weighting for the questions beyond strongly (dis)agree. If I had the option to give importance to some answers and lesser to others, I think I’d move up a few points and probably over to the right a few points too.
Some of the questions make me wonder if they were compiled 70 years ago.
While Samson is ranting about the questions:
The question "A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system. " has been bothering me. I do agree with that, but I really don't want to have it. So what do I pick?
EDIT: Just saw that I wrote nearly exactly this in the last thread .
Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15
Previously:
Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03
Jokes aside, I took two Japanese political quizzes and ended up with two different results even though the questions covered a lot of the same ground and my answers were largely consistent.
Economic Left/Right: -9.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95
Holy poop.
... This is not how I vote.
Maybe I entered "strongly agree" too much, but half of that stuff would be completely aligned by the majority of Western Europe by my impression.
A lot of the questions were outright insane in a modern liberal society. I also noticed some of the questions were new. I wonder how much weight in the questions has come from recent affairs in the US.
Broken down issue by issue there are some things that would have me permanently barred from both major parties. The quiz just doesn’t know me that well.
They're as old as day - tests like this are used to profile a user account and then target them with political propaganda or worse, Cambridge Analytica used something similar iirc.
Best be careful - in particular where they can be linked to your personal details like FB.
Only correct answer to such questions is 'None of your bloody business'
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