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Let's compare political compass coordinates! |
kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002
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At http://www.politicalcompass.org you can answer (quite a lot of) questions and in return get a coordinate of your political beliefs. How accurately they pin point you through those questions is unknown, still it could be interesting to compare coordinates. My results: |
Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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I've done this before.. |
Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
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Stupid Firefox did that thing where it suddenly decides to reload a page for apparently no reason, with the effect that I've just lost almost my entire post. So imagine a <blah blah blah> here concerning the questions and the shown results of famous politicians and religious leaders, and behold my results: Economic Left/Right: -4.00 Making me closes to the Dalai Lama of the people evaluated. Quote: I've done this before.. I've done one like it, possibly an earlier version of the same one, but this had questions that definitely weren't on the last one I did, e.g. about the curbing of civil liberties since the dawn of the "war on terror". [My site] [Tetrominoes] |
Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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On the left side of the graph and extremely close to the middle. Somewhat accurate, but only in as much as the few questions can ascertain. --> |
Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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FrankyR
Member #243
April 2000
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Me: Fun little quiz. |
Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
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Well then apparently I have drifted 0.12 left and 0.72 more libertarian in the past three years. Anybody else going to take the opportunity to assess their drift? [My site] [Tetrominoes] |
Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: Marijuana should be legalised.
What does it means should be? Anyway, The Thing said:
Economic Left/Right: -7.00 EDIT: Ye gods! I'm slowly becoming a right-wing authoritarian... |
FrankyR
Member #243
April 2000
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Quote: Anybody else going to take the opportunity to assess their drift? Hmm, looks like I have shifted (0.5, 0.56) since May 2003. |
Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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2.75 Some stuff really made me think... and I contradicted myself all over the place. Whitman? "I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am many, I contain multitudes" They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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Over the years I feel myself drifting ever so slightly closer to 'the middle', which is fine with me. I'd hate to be all the way toward any one end. Extremism sucks. --> |
kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002
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Sorry for being the third person to post this. I counted the number of answers with coordinates in the two previous threads, 6. So I guess this is an opportunity to participate for those who didn't and an opportunity to check if their values have changed for others. We all seem to have pretty much the same opinions if this test is accurate. |
Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
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Quote: Hmm, looks like I have shifted (0.5, 0.56) since May 2003. Towards the centre or away from the centre? Is there anything as useful as a scattergraph or some sort of coloured representation showing how "the general population" spread out on the graph? Quote: We all seem to have pretty much the same opinions if this test is accurate. Wait until SonShadowCat does it. I'm predicting (+20, +50) [My site] [Tetrominoes] |
Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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FrankyR
Member #243
April 2000
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Quote: Towards the centre or away from the centre? Towards the centre. I went from (-4.25, -3.59) in 2003 to (-3.75, -3.03). |
Onewing
Member #6,152
August 2005
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Economic Left/Right: -2.75 [EDIT] - Now let's take everybodies (allegro members) scores and plot them on one graph and see if there's anything of significance! ------------ |
SonShadowCat
Member #1,548
September 2001
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Economic Left/Right: -6.00 Quote: EDIT: Ye gods! I'm slowly becoming a right-wing authoritarian... Welcome to the club, but I'm sure you don't want to be included with me. |
Jakub Wasilewski
Member #3,653
June 2003
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Guess I have pretty balanced beliefs... Economic Left/Right: -1.63 --------------------------- |
Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Quote:
Economic Left/Right: -7.63 Cough.. hello Gandhi. My god, I'm a fundamentalist and a labour voter! |
Neil Walker
Member #210
April 2000
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Well I'm not close to anyone on that chart at, other than I am somewhere between the Dalai Lama and Robert Mugabe left/right: -4.64 Which I guess makes me perfect as I am leaning towards socialism yet have a balanced view on authority Neil. wii:0356-1384-6687-2022, kart:3308-4806-6002. XBOX:chucklepie |
Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Actually I think this makes me officially a hippy. My old results: Quote:
Economic Left/Right: -6.00
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Thomas Harte
Member #33
April 2000
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Quote: Which I guess makes me perfect as I am leaning towards socialism yet have a balanced view on authority I don't think they asked very balanced questions on authority. I found a lot of questions quite strange. E.g. Quote: All authority should be questioned. I agreed, because the alternative is to allow acceptance of at least some arbitrary authority. That doesn't mean there aren't authorities I respect. Quote: A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system. I had to agree with this, as it is the main advantage of a one-party state. I did not get the opportunity to explain that nevertheless the disadvantages outweigh the advantages by a substantial degree in my opinion. Quote: Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, only wrongdoers need to be worried. The second part appears to be a question about the degree of surveillance, not the ease with which it can be done. Quote: In a civilised society, one must always have people above to be obeyed and people below to be commanded. This personalises the question ("one must"), so doesn't make sense. There cannot always be people above to be obeyed unless there are infinitely many people. Plus the sudden rush of religious questions towards the end. If you've been raised religiously then you see religious institutions as an authority. If you have been raised securarly then it quite possibly hasn't even been suggested to you that any religious body is an authority. Then there were questions which seemed to invoke bigger questions than the authors intended - although I may have been unnecessarily second guessing. For example, on the questions about non-marital sex, homosexual relationships, etc: Quote: What goes on in a private bedroom between consenting adults is no business of the state. Taken literally this pulls in questions about euthanasia, GBH and even whether things like conspiracy should be individual crimes and as a result whether you should be able to arrest people for planning a crime before they have a chance to carry it out. [My site] [Tetrominoes] |
kdevil
Member #1,075
March 2001
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My results said:
Economic Left/Right: -4.25 Hmm, I thought I'd be closer to the center than that. ----- |
Jakub Wasilewski
Member #3,653
June 2003
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More fun . What is your extremist factor? Are you fit to be called a tree-hugging hippie, a god-damn ultra-right-wing control freak? Perhaps you have more extreme beliefs than Adolf Hitler himself? Just calculate your distance from the safe center. Mine is 2.465, so I guess my ideal would be NationStates' inoffensive centrist democracy . --------------------------- |
Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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I missed the selection box entry of indifference on every question. a statement said: Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all.
I agreed here but only under the premise that there can be abstract art that represents something. wtf, it's an "abstraction" of something after all, that is why it is called "abstract", how could it not represent anything? Even if it is verbally inexpressable by the artist, what the creation is an abstraction of... it will still be an abstraction of the state of mind the creator was in, when creating it. --- 0xDB | @dennisbusch_de --- |
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