Political Compass Test

Plumpynutt

This test gives you a fairly good idea on where you stand in the political spectrum, it was also a good distraction from studying


http://www.politicalcompass.org/



My results are in the attachment, libertarian left apparently

PRAF

Ditto!

Manach

This thread/subject matter seem a perennial favourite.

Still Authoritarian right, next to Ed Milliband on the chart so I'm unsure which of us should be more worried.

biko

Lib left as well.

endacl

Plumpynutt wrote: »

This test gives you a fairly good idea on where you stand in the political spectrum, it was also a good distraction from studying


http://www.politicalcompass.org/



My results are in the attachment, libertarian left apparently

I'm just half a square above you, and about one to the right.

You tree huggin' pinko hippy!

Nino Brown

Right on the same dot as Maggie Tatcher.

belcampprisoner

it said I was up with hitler and stalin

Chuck Stone

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97

Lib left.

im invisible

somewhere between Nelson Mandella and the Dalai Lama, (maybe .5 more libertarian, if i took the test again i'm sure i could get it spot on...)

Boulevardier

It looks to me that if we could persusde all the politicians in the top-right square to disappear, the world might be a far better place!

P_1

Economic Left/Right: 1.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.49

Seems I have no politicians who agree with my viewpoints, ah well

nesf

Boulevardier wrote: »

It looks to me that if we could persusde all the politicians in the top-right square to disappear, the world might be a far better place!

You want to keep the top left and Stalin, Mugabe et al?

P_1

nesf wrote: »

You want to keep the top left and Stalin, Mugabe et al?

Well a good few of those lads are gone at this stage

Must say I'm surprised to see Hu Jintao so far over on the right wing.

nesf

P_1 wrote: »

Well a good few of those lads are gone at this stage

Must say I'm surprised to see Hu Jintao so far over on the right wing.

The test is a bit all over the place, I honestly thing the centre is not placed correctly but I do realise that there is nowhere we could place the centre point of that graph which we would all agree on. Personally I think it could go up a nice bit and slightly to the left for Ireland.

When every EU country is decently up into the Authoritarian half of the axis I do actually wonder about the validity of this scale. When Ireland is placed economically as far right as Mitt Romney, again I do wonder. I do think that one would require a socialist republic with very heavy redistribution of wealth to even nose your way into the left half of that plot. France on the extreme of the centre right economically? Ireland out as far as the US? Really, this boggles belief unless the scale is logarithmic.

awec

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PRAF

nesf wrote: »

The test is a bit all over the place, I honestly thing the centre is not placed correctly but I do realise that there is nowhere we could place the centre point of that graph which we would all agree on. Personally I think it could go up a nice bit and slightly to the left for Ireland.

When every EU country is decently up into the Authoritarian half of the axis I do actually wonder about the validity of this scale. When Ireland is placed economically as far right as Mitt Romney, again I do wonder. I do think that one would require a socialist republic with very heavy redistribution of wealth to even nose your way into the left half of that plot. France on the extreme of the centre right economically? Ireland out as far as the US? Really, this boggles belief unless the scale is logarithmic.

A bit odd alright. Nevertheless, anything that gets people thinking in more than 1 dimension is a good thing

nesf

PRAF wrote: »

A bit odd alright. Nevertheless, anything that gets people thinking in more than 1 dimension is a good thing

Oh I agree, if I had a penny for every time someone said "Oh, so you're economically on the right, so you're conservative like Thatcher then?" I'd be a wealthy man.

P_1

nesf wrote: »

Oh I agree, if I had a penny for every time someone said "Oh, so you're economically on the right, so you're conservative like Thatcher then?" I'd be a wealthy man.

Well that sounds appropriate

Conmaicne Mara

Social Libertarian, sort of surprised me.

spot_light

that test isn't near nuanced enough , unless you believe strongly on every question , your somewhere around the middle and usually to the left