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Political Compass

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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.

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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
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irc wrote:I was suprised by how far to the left it put me


i am too :lol:

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hubgearfreak wrote:
irc wrote:I was suprised by how far to the left it put me


i am too :lol:

got a linky? 8)

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?
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Just call me Ghandi :shock:
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Here's mine

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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.
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Come on, there must be somebody outside the green quadrant?
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irc wrote:Come on, there must be somebody outside the green quadrant?


Sorry to disappoint :wink: 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 :shock:
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What more proof could you need to show the test is deeply flawed or [rude word removed]. :wink:
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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))!!! :lol:
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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 :wink:
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meic wrote:What more proof could you need to show the test is deeply flawed or [rude word removed]. :wink:


Though you couldn't possibly be :roll:
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