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How's your political compass?

#41 User is offline   NickRW 

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Posted 2008-November-14, 11:53

helene_t, on Nov 14 2008, 02:31 PM, said:

Maybe, but they have to add apples to oranges on some arbitrary scale.

That problem exists of course, but I think you're now rationalising the fact that the test is skewed. Put it this way, nearly all of us have scored below zero on both the numbers they give. That means we pretty much are all a bunch of left leaning libertarians or there is a skew in the test. It is possible, of course, that we are mostly left leaning - we aren't a random cross section of the population after all - but I seriously doubt that bridge players are any more left inclined than any other group of people.

I definitely doubt that I am left of centre - which is what the test said I was - certainly not by European standards anyhow.

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Posted 2008-November-14, 12:01

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If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.

Is that supposed to ask "are you a knee-jerk conservative that will stop parsing a sentence as soon as he finds 'interests of corporations' in there, or are you someone who can actually read and knows what the word 'humanity' means?"

My views on globalization are closer to conservatives than to lefties, I would think, but I am sure the test put me in the left corner. There were a lot of other weird questions.
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Posted 2008-November-14, 14:50

I have a feeling that politics self-selects for authoritarians...it certainly self-selects for those who want power, and without subjects, power doesn't mean much.
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Posted 2008-November-14, 16:11

mikeh, on Nov 13 2008, 06:26 PM, said:

cherdano, on Nov 12 2008, 11:34 PM, said:

Yeah a lot of questions are very weird:
economic left/right: -2.88
social libertarian/authoritarian: -7.03

I didn't realize I am an anarchist.

We appear to be soul-brothers :)

I was -2.38/-6.21

-2.75
-6.62

Anyone up for a party?
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#45 User is offline   helene_t 

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Posted 2008-November-14, 17:02

cherdano, on Nov 14 2008, 07:01 PM, said:

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If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.

Is that supposed to ask "are you a knee-jerk conservative that will stop parsing a sentence as soon as he finds 'interests of corporations' in there, or are you someone who can actually read and knows what the word 'humanity' means?"

Yes. The only way a sane person could be "against" that one is if he considers it a cliché that in fact means that freedom for corporations is against humanitiy's interests.
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Posted 2008-November-14, 17:20

Purple (3.62 / -4.00)

Happy the famous dad of one of our posters is in my grid.
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Posted 2008-November-14, 17:22

hey, Elianna has company!
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Posted 2008-November-14, 20:48

Kimi is -2.75 / -1.54.
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Posted 2008-November-15, 16:14

This morning

econo -5.88
liber 0

Early evening


econo -6.38
Liber -0.92
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Posted 2008-November-15, 17:47

-5.38/-5.28
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Posted 2008-November-15, 19:40

Woo hoo! Me and Ghandi!

Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77
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Posted 2008-November-17, 04:56

I fell off the map B)
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Posted 2008-November-17, 08:41

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -1.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.56
SCBA National TD, EBU Club TD

Unless explicitly stated, none of my views here can be taken to represent SCBA or any other organizations.
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Posted 2008-November-17, 09:23

I am -2, -2 which is not that surprising. I always describe myself as a left-wing Republican. Conservative on Economics, Liberal on Social issues. But I think some of the questions were very leading.
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Posted 2008-November-17, 10:31

4.50/-4.77
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Posted 2008-November-17, 12:06

Economic: -4.38
Social: -4.62

I kind of felt that I took a very moderate approach to answering the questions so the fact that some of these politicos are so far to the top/right of me is really quite surprising.
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Posted 2008-November-17, 12:49

I also think that the questions were very leading, although some people still managed to score well on the fascism scale so apparently they were not as leading as we think they are.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2008-November-17, 13:34

BTW what is "Abstract art that doesn't represent anything" ? Who decides what art represents something and what art represents nothing?
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Posted 2008-November-17, 13:51

someone needs to plot the BBO results. I nominate Csaba.
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Posted 2008-November-17, 14:10

matmat, on Nov 17 2008, 02:51 PM, said:

someone needs to plot the BBO results. I nominate Csaba.

name	econ	social
lobowolf	-0.75	-4.46
matmat	-5.38	-3.69
Elianna	1.62	-1.59
cherdano	-2.88	-7.03
Mbodell	-8	-7.44
effervesce	-8.4	-0.345
akhare	-6.75	-4.1
codo	-4	-3.33
luke warm	1.25	0.36
david c	-3.75	-1.28
hrothgar	-3.38	-4.82
helene t	-0.5	-5.49
y66	-1.12	-4.67
TimG	-3.5	-5.08
P Marlowe	-5.12	-4.72
MickyB	-3.75	-3.9
gwnn	-4.12	-2.05
Gerben42	-1	-3.74
NickRW	-1.38	-1.85
mikeh	-2.38	-6.21
jikl	-4.62	-5.64
cphastrup	-2.75	-6.62
pclayton	3.62	-4
Kimi	-2.75	-1.54
sceptic	-6.13	-0.46
skaeran	-5.38	-5.28
Al U Card	-7.75	-4.77
Rossoneri	-1.25	-0.56
Askolnick	-2	-2
blackshoe	4.5	-4.77
kfay	-4.38	-4.62
But, I can't figure out how to make Excel label the points on a chart.
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