Your political/social leanings - take a test

bou

I thought I'd link this post from the Christian forum and from the Politics forum before that.

Sir Baralot wrote: »

Hi everyone, out of curiosity I posted a thread in the politics forum with this same post but I would like to get a Christian and Atheistic/Agnostic viewpoint too and see if a religious/non-religious view translates towards someones political views.

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For those of you who are confused, the further towards the bottom of the chart the red dot goes the more socially liberal you are and the further upwards it goes the more socially conservative you are.
The further left it goes the more anti-business you are, and the further right it goes the more pro-business you are.

Sir Baralot wrote: »

Go to The Political Compass Website and clcik 'Take the Test' when you have completed the quiz save the picture of your graph and upload to a website such as www.imageshack.us and post your result here.


Here's mine:

I took the test. My results were:

Economic: -6.38
Social: -4.87
and I'm buddhist.

gnu

Interesting quiz.

I got:
Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.46


Not very far off your score Bou and I'm in the process of becoming Buddhist.

[-0-]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.13

I'm buddhist.

Cabal

Very interesting! I've never taken a quiz like this before.

Economic left/right: -6.12
Social Libertarian / Authoritarian: -3.54

Again, my results aren't a stones throw from anyone else here, and I am also here to learn more about following Buddhism.

I guess buddhism does attract a certain type of person, or at least people of a particular mindset?

KamikazeKenny81

Whoops, I closed the window without copying my score! But it was around -6 -6, well in the bottom right corner like yourselves!

conor.hogan.2

I would find it interesting to see if there is any buddhist (here or anywhere) who scored outside the bottom left square?

coffee_cake

I won't buck the trend. I've taken this quiz countless times but took it again for the hell of it:

Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08

nesf

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

I would find it interesting to see if there is any buddhist (here or anywhere) who scored outside the bottom left square?

Not a Buddhist but considering the plunge:

Economic Left/Right: 5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.00

Asiaprod

Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36
No I have to go and read it all

Chuck Stone

Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.21

efb

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-4.62&soc=-5.03

Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03

conor.hogan.2

nesf wrote: »

Not a Buddhist but considering the plunge:

Economic Left/Right: 5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.00

Cool, in the end i suppose it has nothing to do with buddhism. (im not a buddhist myself, either.)

nesf

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Cool, in the end i suppose it has nothing to do with buddhism. (im not a buddhist myself, either.)

Well the way I see it is that you need to look beyond the stereotypes of left and right economically. I mean, you can be a rightist and still believe in social supports etc and you can be a leftist who still thinks the market is the best way to do many things.

E.g. I believe in universal healthcare but I think a market based solution with mandatory insurance that is the same cost for all regardless of age or health is a better option than a State run health system, and so on.

eyescreamcone

Economic Left/Right: -2.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77

conor.hogan.2

nesf wrote: »

Well the way I see it is that you need to look beyond the stereotypes of left and right economically. I mean, you can be a rightist and still believe in social supports etc and you can be a leftist who still thinks the market is the best way to do many things.

E.g. I believe in universal healthcare but I think a market based solution with mandatory insurance that is the same cost for all regardless of age or health is a better option than a State run health system, and so on.

Very good point.

helibelly

Economic Left/Right: -0.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.90

A fairly basic test, but I'd love to see if there's a correlation between the green sector and buddhists?

Lab_Mouse

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87


in the green qaudrant like alot of other people here..

JonnyMacM

The questions force you to either agree or disagree with the question when you may not have an opinion on the matter.

EmmaAstra

Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38

Surprised to see I'm so far in the green part!

colly10

Surprised i'm not a good bit more right, I would disagree with socialists on most things

firedancer

-6.25
-5.74

so I'm somewhere between Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama

coffee_cake

i took it in november and got

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

bluewolf wrote: »

i took it in november and got

you used to be cool

coffee_cake

my mom says im cool

Crann na Beatha

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A_Sober_Paddy

A little more left than I would have expected...But in saying that most of my right views are based on crime & punishment

[-0-]

[-0-] wrote: »

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.13

I'm buddhist.

Three years later I took this again.

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.31