The Political Compass

Turtwig · 01-05-2014 6:02pm

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P_1 · 01-05-2014 6:50pm

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

Spotting a trend here...

PopePalpatine · 08-07-2014 11:06pm

I decided for the craic to try answering the political compass test as our favourite whipping boy, Eamon de Valera. :pac:

Knasher · 08-07-2014 11:48pm

I'm -5, -4.31 and I've added myself. Mostly trying to hide in the clump of other usernames.

Must say I'm pretty suspicious of the whole thing though, absolutely none of the mods ended up in the authoritarian side, obviously something fishy going on there.

Waitsian · 09-07-2014 1:28am

Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62

I'm where I figured I'd be - I added my name.

Gbear · 09-07-2014 2:02am

It's hard to see in the big mess in the center.

Got -0.8,-7.1.

Seems accurate enough.

It feels like some of the questions that would effect the "libertarian/authoritarian" axis didn't really belong.

I might be a giant racist and that would skew it towards the top but I mightn't have any problem with living in a free and secular society which is more important in determining your x-axis position, IMO.

Naz_st · 09-07-2014 10:25am

Hasn't changed much the last few times I've taken it...

Economic Left/Right: -8.35
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92

westernfrenzy · 12-07-2014 9:23pm

Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38

Usually somewhere around there whenever I take it.

bnt · 12-07-2014 10:46pm

I took it (and added my results to the chart), but I found it a bit depressing. Several questions seemed to offer choices between (a) people doing unwise things or (b) being forced to do the wiser thing. They seemed to exclude the possibility of people choosing to do the right thing, without being forced to by "authority".

the way ayyyy 55 · 15-07-2014 4:30am

looking at the graph, the results seemed interesting.

so I took a weighted mean average for each quadrant, to see what it might look like, and came up with this:
i.imgur.com/XnIFUHK.jpg

JaseBelleVie · 02-01-2015 2:12am

I took this and while yeah, it's very biased towards the United States and so on, I enjoyed taking it. It pretty much summed me up. Very centrist, but with just a dash of left-leaning. According to the graph of famous politicians, I'm close to Francois Hollande.

I would be very, very centrist in my views. I would lean very to the left on certain issues (I'd be very much in favour of same-sex marriage/civil marriage, legalisation of cannabis, I'm very pro-choice, etc.). However, I would have the so-called "evil" libertarian streak in me as well; in that some things should not get support from the state at all if they are not able to stand on their own two feet and all that.

Largely, I would like a lot of the ideals of the left-leaning parties and politicians, but I realise fully that they are, by and large, just fantasy and in reality will not work. I think that, and being controversial here, most realistic people are centrist. Society cannot function with just one set of principles (left/right, libertarian/authoritarian); it needs a blend of both. Idealistically, we would all be equal. Realistically, we are not. There will always be a hierarchy. In the caveman days, it would have been the fittest, the strongest. Nowadays, it is the richest, the cleverest. Sadly, this is not ideal. But this is the only way society can function in its present state.

Anyway, enough philosophy, here's my chart:

nice_very · 07-01-2015 8:13pm

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36

K4t · 15-01-2015 12:08am

robindch wrote: »

Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

Should be "Liberal", not "Libertarian"!

Agreed.

Gbear · 15-01-2015 12:12am

K4t wrote: »

Agreed.

Terminology for political leanings has massively different meanings through time and in different parts of the world.

Libertarianism as a concept isn't necessarily the same as the Libertarian party in the US, anarco-capitalism and so on.

K4t · 15-01-2015 12:49am

Gbear wrote: »

Terminology for political leanings has massively different meanings through time and in different parts of the world.

Libertarianism as a concept isn't necessarily the same as the Libertarian party in the US, anarco-capitalism and so on.

Of course.

I consider myself a liberal but many would consider me extremely conservative in some of my views nowadays, mostly my opposition to any limits on speech or expression, my hope that the world is rid of religion and my support of the Iraq war amongst other things.

Permabear · 21-01-2015 3:47pm

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recedite · 21-01-2015 5:29pm

In its basic opposition to state interference, libertarianism is the opposite to authoritarianism, as they have on the graph. So being against any state imposed limits on free speech is a libertarian stance.

Karl Stein · 21-01-2015 6:06pm

K4t wrote: »

my opposition to any limits on speech or expression

Weren't you arguing that a passenger shouting 'I HAVE A BOMB' on a plane should be considered 'free speech'? That's not conservative/liberal or any political position - it's just naive, unworkable and ridiculous.

and my support of the Iraq war amongst other things.

Oh, you support a war that was brought about by lies? You support a war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and is projected to cost a total of $6tn (six trillion USD)? The war that spawned a brutal sectarian conflict and has left the world with ISIS?

Permabear · 21-01-2015 7:43pm

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newmug · 24-01-2015 1:28pm

Just added meself there. Shocked to see so many similar thinking people on it. I knew Boards attracted an alternative view than your average Irishman, but I didn't know just how close yiz all are together!

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Tar.Aldarion · 24-01-2015 8:32pm

I am also absorbed by the masses

Here is one I did in 2009

PopePalpatine · 24-01-2015 8:33pm

newmug wrote: »

Just added meself there. Shocked to see so many similar thinking people on it. I knew Boards attracted an alternative view than your average Irishman, but I didn't know just how close yiz all are together!

Define "average Irishman".

robindch · 24-01-2015 8:39pm

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Define "average Irishman".

Enjoys chips, doesn't like Irish Water, ambivalent about Gerry Adams, follows at least one ball sport that isn't golf, likes his mammy's cooking, believes pineapples are fine on pizzas and has a limited understanding of economics.

Not exactly the norm hereabouts.

shruikan2553 · 24-01-2015 10:01pm

Exactly 0 somehow.

Calibos · 25-01-2015 12:19am

Seeing as this thread was bumped I did the test again. -4.12, -2.05. I had done it before and my position on the A&A chart was way off. ie. Numbers entered wrong. It shows me as extreme left authoritarian right where Stalin is in the example on the site when in fact I should be in the main grouping around Gandhi. How does one go about amending the chart. I'm nothing like Uncle Joe Godammit!!

newmug · 25-01-2015 11:48am

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Define "average Irishman".

More like Mickey Harte than Rory O'Neill.

MrPudding · 25-01-2015 1:00pm

Calibos wrote: »

Seeing as this thread was bumped I did the test again. -4.12, -2.05. I had done it before and my position on the A&A chart was way off. ie. Numbers entered wrong. It shows me as extreme left authoritarian right where Stalin is in the example on the site when in fact I should be in the main grouping around Gandhi. How does one go about amending the chart. I'm nothing like Uncle Joe Godammit!!

I think you can just remove yourself and then add yourself in again with the correct numbers.

I am 5.5/5.5. Stayed fairly stable on this over the years since it first appeared.

MrP

One eyed Jack · 25-01-2015 1:45pm

Some of those questions are blatantly loaded, but here's mine anyway -

Economic Left/Right: 3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.62

MrPudding · 25-01-2015 3:12pm

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Some of those questions are blatantly loaded, but here's mine anyway -

Economic Left/Right: 3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.62

Careful now. Do you not know that if you aren't the green square you aren't allowed to post in this forum?

MrP

PopePalpatine · 25-01-2015 3:22pm

newmug wrote: »

More like Mickey Harte than Rory O'Neill.

So, someone who defends a borderline rapist?

Brian Shanahan · 25-01-2015 5:24pm

MrPudding wrote: »

Careful now. Do you not know that if you aren't the green square you aren't allowed to post in this forum?

MrP

I think there's a loophole where he's (apologies if you're a Ms., Jack) allowed provided he buys the other posters a pack of jaffa cakes per diem.

looksee · 09-08-2019 1:50pm

Economic Left/Right: -3.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15

Though I was not impressed by the ambiguity of some of the questions.

Anyway I am in there with the Boards masses.

The Political Compass

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