Political Compass
Political Compass
With the labels getting used elsewhere, left, right etc I thought this quiz might be of interest. It places you on a graph showing both on the left - right spectrum and on the libertarian - authoritarian spectrum.
I was suprised by how far to the left it put me, I thought I'd be around the center. On the authoritarian/liberetarian scale I'm pretty much in the middle as I expected.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
I was suprised by how far to the left it put me, I thought I'd be around the center. On the authoritarian/liberetarian scale I'm pretty much in the middle as I expected.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
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irc wrote:I was suprised by how far to the left it put me
i am too
got a linky?
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hubgearfreak wrote:irc wrote:I was suprised by how far to the left it put me
i am too
got a linky?
It's not that you're far left so much that the middle ground has gone further right...
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Apparently I'm sat in exactly the same position as Gandhi (painful).
Having done a proper psycho-metric test today ("as used by many leading blue chip companies" yadda yadda yada), again I must say, why can't anybody write questions that it is possible to answer properly?
Having done a proper psycho-metric test today ("as used by many leading blue chip companies" yadda yadda yada), again I must say, why can't anybody write questions that it is possible to answer properly?
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Just call me Ghandi
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Re: Political Compass
Here's mine
I'm also further left than I would have predicted, but almost exactly the same place as Nelson Mandela so can't complain.
I'm also further left than I would have predicted, but almost exactly the same place as Nelson Mandela so can't complain.
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I'm surprised just how far right the middle ground has shifted.
What manner of creature's this, being but half a fish and half a monster
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Come on, there must be somebody outside the green quadrant?
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
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irc wrote:Come on, there must be somebody outside the green quadrant?
Sorry to disappoint but I wasn't surprised to find I was diametrically opposite to Thatcher
Though I was surprised to be a little to the left and more libertarian than Gandhi
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
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What more proof could you need to show the test is deeply flawed or [rude word removed].
Yma o Hyd
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Looks like I somewhere below Ghandi. I am most definately left wing and Like to call myself a socialists, but perhaps I am more liberal than I thought
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Looking at the questions and the choice of answers, I think that the test is designed to put most people in the bottom left corner.
I wasnt very far down or left but that is because I am a fan of understatement and never really go for "strongly" anything.
Also I imagine that I voted the same as some rightwingers for exactly the opposite reason.
eg. A woman's primary role is as a housemaker. I went for this one and strongly so because I believe that EVERYBODIES primary role is as a housemaker not because I am a male chauvinist who believes it is a lesser job just for women.
I am so far left that I appear to agree with the fascists (like Thatcher (a woman))!!!
I wasnt very far down or left but that is because I am a fan of understatement and never really go for "strongly" anything.
Also I imagine that I voted the same as some rightwingers for exactly the opposite reason.
eg. A woman's primary role is as a housemaker. I went for this one and strongly so because I believe that EVERYBODIES primary role is as a housemaker not because I am a male chauvinist who believes it is a lesser job just for women.
I am so far left that I appear to agree with the fascists (like Thatcher (a woman))!!!
Yma o Hyd
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I seem to have matched reohn2...which is no surprise as I suspect I have similar views on that woman.
But not necessarily everything else
But not necessarily everything else
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meic wrote:What more proof could you need to show the test is deeply flawed or [rude word removed].
Though you couldn't possibly be
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
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Me:
When the pestilence strikes from the East, go far and breathe the cold air deeply. Ignore the sage, stay not indoors. Ho Ri Zon 12th Century Chinese philosopher