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[Aldaris]

Take the test! See if this forum is also full of Gandhi-clones!
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
See if you are liberal enough to call yourself Elite Liberal!

[Leafsnail]

I tried before and got slightly to the left with a libertarian slant.  Bah.  I'll now try to answer each question as Marion would and see what happens.

EDIT:  Wait, how can she be only Economic Left/Right: -7.75, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.74??  She's an elite liberal!  Damn, looks like I got some questions wrong.  In other news, Gordon Brown is surprisingly far to the right of things.

[Dakk]

I'm slightly libertarian left.



Awww I'm only an average liberal.

[E. Albright]

I've never liked this test overmuch due to its annoying libertarian bias; despite its claims to the contrary, pure left-anarchist answers aren't going to put you in the far bottom left corner.

[Zangi]

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.28

[Luke_Prowler]

Here is one of the questions:

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

What. The. Fuck.

[cowofdoom78963]

I do think some questions are somewhat poorly worded, but I guess its ok.



So I got that, witch seems about right.

Also ghandi was a racist, I dont know what hes doing all the way down there.

[Christes]

The person who wrote it has a libertarian bias.  It's not inherent in the test mechanics as it is in the questions themselves.

[Luke_Prowler]

nvm, technical difficulties.

[cowofdoom78963]

The person who wrote it has a libertarian bias.  It's not inherent in the test mechanics as it is in the questions themselves.

Also the examples make it pretty clear

[E. Albright]

Obviously it's the question writer who has the bias. The test mechanics are nothing more than a way to map a series of 5-choice questions onto a 2d grid. I've seen far more distorted versions of this floating around that make Political Compass look like a shining beacon of objectivity.

Oddly, they slanted towards libertarian as well. I suppose it's not all that surprising, since the authors would be interested in showing the shortcomings of one-dimensional political classification, and libertarianism is amongst the most popular Western political outlooks that runs afoul that.

[Ampersand]

Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51

I win.

[Servant Corps]

Straight down Libertarianism, no move either towards left or right. I stayed within the "Moderate" zone too, but just barely.

I'm looking for the "RWA scale" and the F-Scale, they'd likely be more useful for determining if someone is an L+ person.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I should really think about checking out "The anti-authoritarian personality", by William P. Kreml. I really should. But I'm too lazy to.

EDIT 2: Actually, I wonder. Should one answer the test in how you personally believe...or how you want government to behave? There can be huge differences between the two, mind you.

[Megaman]

It is biased towards liberalism, i answered most questions CONSERVETIVLY once and got libertain.

[Servant Corps]

Hm. How hard it is to create your own political compass test?

EDIT 1: I took another Political Compass test and got...this.

My Political Views
I am a centrist social authoritarian
Left: 0.18, Authoritarian: 4.43

Political Spectrum Quiz


Well...um...

Straight down Libertarianism, no move either towards left or right. I stayed within the "Moderate" zone too, but just barely.

When I took the Political Compass test, it was a long time ago. I may need to retake the original Political Compass test, and see the new result. Stay tuned.

EDIT 2:

Economic Left/Right: 4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.97

Oh. Whoops. Seemed I might have forgotten what Libertarianism meant according to this test. When I took this test in the past, I was heavily economically right, and did not shift either Social Libertarian or Social Authoritarian. This still is true today...altough it seemed I am no longer Moderate (boo!).

This still conflicts with the other test though...which claims that I am heavily Authoritarian, and centrist on economic issues (slightly Economically Left). Do any of these tests have validity? I have answered in what I personally believe in, as opposed to how I want government to run.