The Political Compass- Where are YOU?

adambyte

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I'm going to apologize ahead of time... I have no idea where I got this, but if I got it from somehwere on this board, feel free to point out my idiocy.

Take the quiz found here:
http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/questionnaire.pl?page=1

...and tell us where your dot lies on the political compass.

Mine's right near Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. And as I recall, I haven't heard a bad thing about Ghandi. :D

(Another interesting pages is the "US Primaries 2004" chart on the left menu thingy.)

So where are you?
 
My political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21
 
Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.44
 
Economic Left/Right:-4.00 `Social Libertarian/Authoritarian:-1.13 That puts me in the league of Mandela.::love::
 
Ha Ha Ha, i come out as L/R -7.25 Lib/Auth -7.74, so i must be the local lefty-liberal wimp, ahh well, there are worse things to be. :)
On the other hand, who is gonna put in anything but strongly disagree to "People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce." I mean really!
 
-6.75, -3.03

I think it's interesting that so far, nobody here has a positive number for either score.

I did not, however 'strongly disagree' with "People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce."

I would make no blanket statements about "disabilities" in general -- that covers MUCH too wide a swath (including my own wife, who has MS).

However, there are some disabilities which are serious enough that it would be an inexcusable cruelty to knowingly pass it along - or even take a 50% chance of passing it on - to an innocent child. Further, parenting is an awesome responsibility, not to be entered into lightly. Far too many "healthy" people become parents without any sort of real understanding what they are getting into. Someone with a serious mental impairment is even less likely to appreciate the magintude of the task beforehand, and may have far greater difficulty living up to those responsibilities. The consequences of bad parenting - especially VERY bad parenting - can affect families for many, many generations.
 
What a bunch of $%&*ing liberal dope-smoking hippies! All of you! Commie bastards!

Except for Ricky. Ricky's the crazy right winger, what with him being in the center and all. lol

:D
 
Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

Yep. Us Mac using commies... Funny, if anything it's Linux users that are the (to me) weirdo Libertarians; even though they used to be the ones branded as commies a few years ago.
 
Ah, a headwinger like me. 0.17 and 0.28. Middle of the road is the dangerous place to be ('you karate do yes- ok, you karate do no -ok, you karate do maybe - get sguish rike grape!' :D ) but it is probably closer to correct.

The questions themselves are quite skewed and have many prejudices hidden within. I don't think that access to better health-care is a right, but an opportunity, so how should I respond to the hidden question in a question. In general the other stuff on the site were useful, like the who-said-that bit. It was fun with my history class.
 
You raise a good point; the wording of a question can reveal almost as much about the asker as the answerer.

Consider the questions: "A) Should we forbid X?" and "B) Should we permit X?"

The two have opposite meanings, so if 20% of people say "no" to A, then 20% should say "yes" to B.

But historically, this isn't what happens. In many cases, both questions make people want to answer "no", because in each case the wording suggests that the asker considers a "yes" answer to be shocking or scandalous.
 
Economic Left/Right: -0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.59

There were maybe 5 questions or so I didn't feel 100% comfortable answering.

Funny, I thought I'd be much more towards the traditional right side.
 
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