The Political Compass

[Adorno]

Recent thread:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,234258.msg5605985.html#msg5605985

Old thread:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,179868.msg4319024.html#msg4319024

Very old thread:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=4395.0

Mine:

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

There's already a political compass thread. I'd find it but I'm on my phone at the moment.

 

[Anthropoid]

Won't disagree that the test is far from perfect. The whole idea that any leader in a democratic nation might get anywhere near a world famous autocrat like Hitler on the authoritarian axis strikes me as being rather hard to accept.

But consider this: is it possible to create a 'better' test of a similar sort?

My guess is: not really.

Given that, I am led to conclude that: if this effort to use a two-axis paradigm with aggregated scores from multiple question items is inherently problematic for characterizing how political actors compare and contrast, then how can our homogenized one-axis models suffice?

 

[Sir Saladin]

This is stupid. If you have a left and right then you also need an up and down and/or back and forth and maybe some sideways, diagonal and undecideds. "Wrong" and "stupid" should also be possible results for an accurate political test.

 

[rebelsquirrell]

I was a authoritarian libertarian.... How does that even work? "yeah dawg do whatever you want man, BUT YOU BETTER TOW THE LINE!"

 

[Untitled.]

Can't be arsed to take the test again, but I'm way in the corner of the purple.

[me=Untitled.]high fives Gamerwiz.[/me]

 

[Haresus]

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.03

In the green libertarian/left corner.

 

[Arnas]

Back in June:

Now:

 

[Adorno]

Looking good. Keep it going.

 

[Haresus]

Yep, Amontadillo got almost the same as me, except being slightly more left.

 

[Bulle]

隐藏: Used to be this

隐藏: Now I am this

 

[Harkon Haakonson]

The big problem is that it takes two separate things (social and economic policies) and melds them together, causing someone who may be socially very liberal and economically very conservative to be represented incorrectly.

Indeed.

 

[AWdeV]

Fine, geez, I'll do it again.

隐藏: thar she blows.

 

[gamerwiz09]

Can't be arsed to take the test again, but I'm way in the corner of the purple.

[me=Untitled.]high fives Gamerwiz.[/me]

[me=Gamerwiz]ass slaps Untitled.[/me]

 

[gamerwiz09]

You probably want the government in on it too, dirty socialist.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Original Political Compass thread.

Slightly newer Political Compass thread.

Political Compass thread from five months ago.

I'm not doing a fourth one.

 

[AWdeV]

They've been mentioned and linked. Not necessarily relevant though as there's new people and shifted positions here now.

 

[Toffey]

It's still a really poor quality test. For example, somebody might support freer markets as they believe it will lead to increased wealth and happiness for society, not just because they want corporations to make more money.

Anyways, I remain in the green bottom left square, somewhat close to the centre. It's too hard to resist taking it, no matter how crappy the questions are.

 

[Vieira151]

I dislike the test, and since I'm not all that politically minded I didn't understand some of the questions fully, but whatever. Here are my results:

Don't think it's all that different from tests I have taken previously.

 

[Sushiman70]

I've moved left and down since last time;