The Political Compass test!

[Darken12]

Well that was fun.
And by fun, I mean some of those questions made me fold up into the fettle position. (seriously, Why would anyone ever care about what other people do in they bedroom?)

Cynical answer: Because religion.

Less cynical answer: Because paternalism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternalism].

 

[Pebkio]

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13.

No map, just... assume it looks much like everyone else's. Although, I am slightly more Authoritarian than before.

Edit: Y'know.. I've got a crazy notion: It seem that America's political leaders are all in the blue section. And despite how you might feel about them, they're making a mess of our society. A lot of us might be in the green... because it's opposite of the people who are mucking things about...

 

[Zaik]

Spoiler

It'd probably be a lot farther towards the bottom and closer to the middle if it had an "I don't care" option for the questions, or multiple choice type answers so I didn't have to choose between what I disagree with and what I disagree with even more than that.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

A lot of people sitting right in that lower left green corner..

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=3.88&soc=1.08

 

[ECasThat]

Well that was fun.
And by fun, I mean some of those questions made me fold up into the fettle position. (seriously, Why would anyone ever care about what other people do in they bedroom?)

Cynical answer: Because religion.

Less cynical answer: Because paternalism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternalism].

Wow. When I first saw your less cynical answer, my brain momentarily collapsed and I thought that it had something to with patents and copyright laws... Kinky, kinky copyright laws.

 

[Darken12]

Well that was fun.
And by fun, I mean some of those questions made me fold up into the fettle position. (seriously, Why would anyone ever care about what other people do in they bedroom?)

Cynical answer: Because religion.

Less cynical answer: Because paternalism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternalism].

Wow. When I first saw your less cynical answer, my brain momentarily collapsed and I thought that it had something to with patents and copyright laws... Kinky, kinky copyright laws.

HAH!

No, it's more like "we tell you what's considered sexually acceptable for your own good."

 

[Lonewolfm16]

Economic Left/Right: 3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.49

Don't know how to post images but there you go, right in the purple quadrent of the graph. Kinda what I expected being a free market Libertarian.

 

[malestrithe]

By its very nature, the test is very biased. Why do you need to have authoritarian and libertarian in it? The answer is that you are trying to get people to adopt a different mindset about life.

Also, why does it avoid the actual titles? We all know what colloquially what left and right thinkers are, but why not call them democrat and republican?

I question the agenda of the people that made the test in the first place. They want you to think that you have some libertarian mindsets, because the closer you are to the evil people, the worse you actually are.

Had I designed the test with marxism in mind, I can manipulate the answers to make sure that most people are thinking they are marxist.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

Haha, I'm very green. infact, I'm more green than the Greens!

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

By its very nature, the test is very biased. Why do you need to have authoritarian and libertarian in it? The answer is that you are trying to get people to adopt a different mindset about life.

Also, why does it avoid the actual titles? We all know what colloquially what left and right thinkers are, but why not call them democrat and republican?

The answer to the first is that liberal economic and social stances need not result in a large government. Or they could. The fact you can have such views on the first two but have different views on the role of government in enforcing such things means the second axis is needed.

Secondly we dont "all know" that because a LOT of us are not American. Some of our european liberal parties are actually more to the right than our other parties. You have to remember that "liberal" and "conservative" are about moving away or toward the norm. In Europe big government is normal. Moving away from that is a "liberal" idea and sticking with it is "conservative". As far as i know only the US uses Democrat and republican, id say the ONLY global constant is left and right like the graph uses. We have conservative, labour and liberal democrats as our three main parties. So no. We dont all know. Dont be so presumptuous.

 

[lacktheknack]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-0.25&soc=0.05

Yay me?

I think I'm one of the most central people in this thread, if not THE most central.

That said, this test is silly. I'm much farther to the right, but not according to this one, because I dislike multi-national corporations. If they actually asked decent questions on smaller scale, I'd be way to the right.

http://www.theadvocates.org/images/bd/quiz/red_dots/60_70.gif?1351125729

This one makes marginally more sense.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

<spoiler=2nd website, http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz>the other test
Evil Smurf's issues Score is 80%
Evil Smurf's issues Score is 40%
http://www.theadvocates.org/images/bd/quiz/red_dots/80_40.gif?1351125729

I prefer the second test that you've brought to the table. It is more straight forward and makes more sense.

The first test the OP brought had bad wording and too many almost moral ultimatum type questions that where pretty close to: Should we kill all the babies? Plus the listing of famous people board for the test is stupid, because Obama and Romney should be nowhere near each other.

50% personal
100% economic(Yeah! A+ on economics, at least that is how I think it should work).

I knew I was mostly conservative. I'm of course very vocal about freedom. Though I think that National ID card bit had no place in the personal freedom section. Of course we need a National ID card is needed, we already have them, and they make sense because being able to cheat systems because nobody knows who you are, is not a part of personal freedom.

So in that case, I should at least be 70% on freedom and not 50%.

Though right now looking at you Evil Smurf, considering we are on near opposite ends of the political spectrum, it is the law that we must get together and have a fist fight. =P

Edit: Yeah, I can post again. Some stupid program had attached itself onto my PC and interfered with the sites posting mechanics. I had to delete sections of it out of its program folder to get the uninstall for it to work; I guess it had anti-uninstall fail-safes. Now I've got to find out who's been messing with my computer.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Well...there you go. I'm a little less left and a little more liberatarian than I though. I was challenged a bit in the first 3 but then it was like "Religion? Sex? This is the cakewalk part". Seems like a lot of you are similar, at the very least 3rd quadrant.

 

[Davey Woo]

I was pretty close to Ghandi, I think -3 Left and -1 Down. I don't really have any strong political beliefs at all, as so far I feel I've been largely unaffected by my own Government, though that's likely to change in the next few years.

 

[Worgen]

Wow, almost everyone is in the green.

I feel alone

Despite what xbox live would have you believe (what with all the homophobic kids) most gamers are left leaning.

I wonder how Teddy Roosevelt would have done on that test.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Well...there you go. I'm a little less left and a little more liberatarian than I though. I was challenged a bit in the first 3 but then it was like "Religion? Sex? This is the cakewalk part". Seems like a lot of you are similar, at the very least 3rd quadrant.

 

[Chrisscogg_teh_Newbie]

I appear to be a little more conservative than most of my fellow escapists, but I've seen similar results. Surely we can all remain friends, right?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=1.25&soc=-1.90

Here's the other test. Seems accurate.

http://www.theadvocates.org/images/bd/quiz/red_dots/80_100.gif?1351125729

 

[MammothBlade]

My views are hard to describe with a label, but Progressive Individualist is acceptable. I favour strong individual freedom, to the point of eliminating victimless crimes; and a mixed economy - balancing good welfare and a healthy free market. I'm neither pro nor anti-business, but I think deregulation and privatisation are generally bad, most public services & utilities shouldn't be run by the private sector, and so on. In return, sales taxes and national insurance should be abolished and the minimum wage should be replaced by either negative income tax or guaranteed minimum income.

Though I have more typically "right-wing" views when it comes to crime and foreign policy - pro-capital punishment, pro-intervention. Freedom and prosperity are hard won, and shouldn't be left to chance either domestically or internationally.

 

[Johnny Impact]

On the other hand, I am hugely in favor of the death penalty for serious crimes. Some folks just aren't going to rehabilitate, no matter how much time, counseling, incarceration, etc is spent on them. When you get weeds in your garden, you don't carefully move them to their own little plot, where they receive more time and resources than the plants you ostensibly want to keep. You pull the weeds, throw them over your shoulder, and don't spare them another thought. The left likes to whine about compassion. I have loads of compassion. I just have it for the victims.

There's an issue with what you're saying. It costs more for us to use the death penalty on prisoners on death row than it costs to just keep them in prison, thanks to the many levels of appeals and so forth. But we can't cut down on our appeals process, because we already let innocent people be killed with the death penalty.

I agree that the victims should receive our compassion, not hardcore criminals that are not able to be rehabilitated. But the cost of killing innocents and the cost of money dictates that we cannot continue the death penalty.

Would you be happy if you learned your new neighbor had brutally killed four people without provocation, but was out of jail after just a few years because prisons are overcrowded and it was "too expensive" to put him to death? What are you going to say to the friends and family of his next four victims....assuming of course that you aren't one of them?

You say we cannot continue the death penalty. I say murderers cannot walk our streets. I know it's expensive to kill them. That's why we need to reform the system. We don't need to do away with capital punishment, we need to do away with red tape.

As for killing innocent people, the only way to ensure innocents were never punished would be never to punish anyone for anything, ever. I think we can agree that doesn't work. In the real world we simply have to accept that punishment is necessary and errors will be made. From there, we decide on an appropriate level of punishment and an acceptable level of error. I guess we just differ on what's appropriate and acceptable.

 

[Scipio1770]

the quiz has quite a few libertarian loaded questions, not very accurate for testing social leanings.