[W:583] Political Compass Thread

[David_N]

Here is mine:

 

[Mr Person]

I hate this kind of thing because you can't have any nuance. Take "Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment."

My answer depends entirely on the level of inflation, the level of unemployment, the complete economic picture of the country, the possible effects of policy on our relation to the world economy, the degree to which my Chicago School PHD friends want to talk to me about it and the degree to which my friends who studied in schools Keynesian perspective would have to say, etc etc etc.

But what if I was an absolute libertarian or anarchist? I might want to say "government should not make any attempt to control either, ever". In which case I can't answer the question.




Then there are ones like "When you are troubled, it's better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things", which have nothing to do with politics.

Or "The businessperson and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist." Existence would be far worse without any art, writing included. It would also be pretty awful without manufacturing or business. They're both important... Bleh. But I bet saying "disagree" gets scored as if I'm saying "writers and artists are more important"

Not sure I agree with being scored as being slightly authoritarian as opposed to libertarian. (For one thing, they didn't even touch drug law issues, which would likely shove me the other direction since I am pretty much a pure libertarian on those questions)


https://www.politicalcompass.org/images/bothaxes.gif

(Just barely left, just barely authoritarian). I consider myself a bit left of center, a bit towards libertarianism, but pragmatism takes precedence over all else.


Edit: It also failed to score me on the moron vs. intelligent index, since I have just noticed that if I scroll down, I get

Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=-4.0&soc=-5.33

In other words, I copied the example of a score that goes with the explanation....not my score and explanation.

(Both more left and more libertarian than I consider myself). Oh well.

 

[Candor]

 

[Alyssa T.]

I have just finished this, and we'll see if I can get it to post here.....



Not sure what these numbers mean, but here are the numbers I was assigned:

Left: 8.52
Libertarian: 1.24
Foreign Policy: -7
Culture: -7.31

It called me a "far-left moderate social libertarian."

 

[le bouffon]

Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: 1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92

 

[dale2000]

Post your test results here.

Anyway, here are mine:

Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.28

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My results a few months ago were around {-4,-4}, so you could say that my views have shifted significantly.

Moderator's Warning:

Stickied this, and note the second quiz mentioned here: http://www.debatepolitics.com/general-political-discussion/123332-political-compass-thread-6.html#post1060382148 Quiz mentioned by link above can be found here: Political Spectrum Quiz - Your Political Label Thank you mpg for the second quiz

Newbie here. In fact, this is my first post on this forum.
Just took the quiz.
I am a centrist social moderate.
<b>My Political Views</b><br>I am a centrist social moderate<br>Right: 0.49, Libertarian: 0.92<br>

 

[RedAkston]

I don't think that I've done this and posted it at least.



I guess this confirms what I already knew - that I'm a conservative who leans Libertarian.

 

[Juan.gonzalez]

New here also. I am from southern europe, so the result is unexpected:


Left: 6.32, Libertarian: 0.22

 

[Mr. Furley]

First post here. Hope this place is the tits.

Anyway, I landed exactly where I thought I would.

 

[marco]

Economic Left/Right: 1.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.56

 

[JunkyardDogma]

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Mine has changed over the years but is always not too far from the center economically and fairly liberal on social issues.

Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -1.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79



Actually just looked at mine from back 2014, and its nearly the same: http://www.debatepolitics.com/gener...litical-compass-thread-22.html#post1062653635

 

[Shooterman35]

Right 5.26

Libertarian 3.55

 

[Gathomas88]

Took the second quiz this time.

Right Social Moderate.

Right: 4.12

Libertarian: 0.01

I seem to have drifted just a smidge to the Left, and a tad towards the Libertarian side of things.

Frankly, however, I think that has more to do with the questions they asked than anything else. If they'd gotten more into "the weeds" with regards to economic, philosophical, and criminal justice issues, I likely would have come out more to the Right and more Authoritarian.

Personally, I think I come in somewhere between Nixonian and Reaganite Republicanism. I share the former's taste for pragmatism and a more foreign affairs centric policy focus, while also sharing many of the latter's social and economic principles, if not his overwhelming optimism and faith in them.

INTJ... Obviously. :2razz:

 

[Barolo2010]

Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

 

[devildavid]

Mine came out like this:

Economic left/right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56

 

[NeoconHippie]

Economic Left/Right: 5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97

 

[LowDown]

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No surprise.

It has been pretty stable since I took the quiz in 2012:



According to the Political Compass web site, I'm to the left of and much less authoritarian than Hillary Clinton, who is almost as far to the right as Trump and the other Republicans. Sanders is shown as being slightly left of center.

 

[Mithrae]

Basically same as last time:

 

[Viking11]

Economic Left/Right: -5.7
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.8

 

[BitterPill]

6.5 and 9.18. All positive!

 

[Celebrity]

My Political Views
I am a left moderate social libertarian
Left: 3.54, Libertarian: 1.85

Political Spectrum Quiz

Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.85

I consider this to be verification that I embrace more libertarian than authoritarian principles. On the second test, there was no 'neutral' option, however I wasn't allowed to rate issues according to importance, and ended up scoring more centrally.

 

[Renae]

Interesting.

 

[NGNM85]

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/ Authoritarian: -7.13

As a libertarian socialist, this result, or something like it, was entirely expected. Whenever I take the test, I get about the same result. I agree some of the questions could use some tweaking, but it'seems pretty damn accurate. The political compass is a far more accurate way to visualize, and understand political ideologies than the single-axis, 'left-center-right' spectrum, which is hopelessly inadequate.

 

[HK.227]

Results are slightly off, as some questions had no right anwer, but not by much.
But no surprise there. Conservatism is essentially balancing individualism with collectivism, authority with freedom.