Political Compass Thread

[Point Given]

Every year I take this political compass quiz and save the results to compare my political ideology over the years. I'm curious to see how yours all are. The link: www.politicalcompass.org/test


My latest results (since for some reason the image tag doesn't work for this type of link):
www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-4.00&soc=-4.97

Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97

Interestingly, I've been slowly moving to the center on economic and social issues, though quicker on economic ones.

[brokenquill92]

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38


I'm apparently extremely liberal

[Nahara46]

Economic Left/Right: -3.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13

Didn't know what three of the questions meant, and not quite sure what these scores mean (Hey, I'm 13- give me a break) but, I think it's good....

[Ithiarel]

That's an interesting test...
I'll try, but looking at the questions I fear that my result will be incorrect. Why?

Take a look at those questions on the first page for example:
"I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong."
"Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races."
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
"Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified."

As a German I feel morally obliged to answer each of these questions with "Strongly Disagree" (my personal opinion doesn't matter in this case). And I think this will heavily distort the end result.

"All authority should be questioned."
Again as a German, of course, my answer willhave to be "strongly agree".

"It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product."
Is it like that in the US??
(I'll just click "agree" even though I don't get the question...)

"Governments should penalise businesses that mislead the public."
Say what? I thought every business does that... Huh? Maybe I'm too jaded for this test.

"A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies."
This test is not overly representative, you know that, right? The way the sentences are formulated is manipulative by using words that carry negative connotations. My professor at university (as well as my lecturer in research methods) would have failed me in class if I had handed in a test like that...


So having clicked my way through all the questions (half of the answers were clear because the topics are completely foreign to me), my (very German) result is:
Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

Obviously, I am Ghandi!
(just maybe a bit more anarchistic)

The really interesting thing is that I am actually a Machiavelli-loyalist. (A result of my studies in political theory).

[Chameleon]

Well... I got

Economic Left/Right: -3.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.64

Disagreed with the most points, and agreed to some of them xD

[lucyolsen]

I got

Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.51

No one so far is on the right or authoritarian.
Does this indicate that people who read Harry Potter fanfic are leftist socialists or does this mean that only leftist socialists take these tests?


The one question I had the most trouble with was "People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce."

Because I don't want to put restrictions on the rights of anyone, and reproduction is one of those inalienable things that really can't be restricted unless you're talking about very invasive and scarring medical procedures, but I want to say that people who know that they are likely to have children with those types of diseases/disabilities should come to the conclusion themselves that they should probably adopt. There are enough extra children in the world that not everyone has to go create their own.

[Nahara46]

My main problem is I have no idea what the very first question means... So I'm just putting 'agree'. (I've decided to take the test again, and see if I still have the same opinions.)

[Nahara46]

My new score-
Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26

[19811945]

I got

Economic Left/Right: -3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.00

My dot is actually panted between four people - Alexis Tsiprias, Francois Hollande, The Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, and I am not making it up, which is on the international chart.

[Trilonias]

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.67

Huzzah?

[physicssquid]

I got: Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.18

Close to Gandhi. Interesting.

[teflonbilly]

I feel very lonely.

Economic Left/Right: 0.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.08

[Dimcairien]

People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.

For me this was a really hard question to answer because I have a genetic disorder that, while it doesn't prevent me from having children, they could have it, and the spectrum is very wide. I'm blessed to barely have any of the affects, but I don't want to pass it on, so my personal decision is to not bear children and I will adopt.

I too feel rather alone with my score.

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.00

I just checked what the left/right policies for an authoritarian are, and I found that there were policies I completely agreed with and disagreed with in both, so I guess it fits me. I do consider myself a Conservative Republican though and will be voting Republican in the upcoming Presidential election.

[brokenquill92]

Geez am I the only independent liberal?

[brokenquill92]

I was so far left I went pas ghandi

[Dimcairien]

I was personally surprised how far left I was. I was expecting to be more on the right side, but, our own minds can surprise us at times.

[brokenquill92]

I knew I was liberal I just didn't know how liberal

[19811945]

Jul 28, 2012 18:18:04 GMT -5 Dimcairien said:

People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.

For me this was a really hard question to answer because I have a genetic disorder that, while it doesn't prevent me from having children, they could have it, and the spectrum is very wide. I'm blessed to barely have any of the affects, but I don't want to pass it on, so my personal decision is to not bear children and I will adopt.

I too feel rather alone with my score.

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.00

I just checked what the left/right policies for an authoritarian are, and I found that there were policies I completely agreed with and disagreed with in both, so I guess it fits me. I do consider myself a Conservative Republican though and will be voting Republican in the upcoming Presidential election.

For that question, for me, it's more to do with the person with the disabilities. It's their decision to make. People can give advice but the ultimately decision is that person with disabilities.

[brokenquill92]

Jul 29, 2012 6:02:31 GMT -5 19811945 said:

Jul 28, 2012 18:18:04 GMT -5 Dimcairien said:

For me this was a really hard question to answer because I have a genetic disorder that, while it doesn't prevent me from having children, they could have it, and the spectrum is very wide. I'm blessed to barely have any of the affects, but I don't want to pass it on, so my personal decision is to not bear children and I will adopt.

I too feel rather alone with my score.

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.00

I just checked what the left/right policies for an authoritarian are, and I found that there were policies I completely agreed with and disagreed with in both, so I guess it fits me. I do consider myself a Conservative Republican though and will be voting Republican in the upcoming Presidential election.

For that question, for me, it's more to do with the person with the disabilities. It's their decision to make. People can give advice but the ultimately decision is that person with disabilities.

I would rather not have the government start up forced sterilization again

[Dimcairien]

Jul 29, 2012 6:06:07 GMT -5 brokenquill92 said:

Jul 29, 2012 6:02:31 GMT -5 19811945 said:

For that question, for me, it's more to do with the person with the disabilities. It's their decision to make. People can give advice but the ultimately decision is that person with disabilities.

I would rather not have the government start up forced sterilization again

Agreed. There are many private matters that the government shouldn't stick their noses into and this is one of them.

[Chameleon]

Hm. I agree that people should decide whether they get children or not. Some people may risk it, other may not risk it. Reminds me of that we had a episode for a few years ago, where everyone got checked for CTD, as tests had showed, that our country had a larger procent number of people with CTD.

It was because we're a small nation, that someone long ago married each other and then it has passed down, and yeah... Reminds me slightly of the Pureblood who married the cousins. (Not that we're pureblood, just that the sickness got carried down) ... You understand me right? I feel like I'm terrible to explain it. Well, the chance is only one of four children, if both parents are carriers. So it's up to them to risk that.

[19811945]

You're lucky. If your island were more closely related to each other ie less people (either hundreds or thousands) couple hundred years ago, you could have had more genetic problems, disabilities, etc.

[G. Novella]

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49


I was surprised, I thought I's be far more liberal than left-wing, to be honest. Then again, I made my family do the test after me. My saunt and uncle were more liberal than me, but they're modern day hippies, and my mum leaned towards authpritarian, but I wasn't too surprised, she does tend to have different views than me after all.

[brokenquill92]