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JoelP - 23/11/08 at 11:21 PM

Sure to rouse a good debate! Take the test, compare yourself to hilter, stalin, pol pot or even Dubbya!

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Im -2 both axis in the bottom left, slightly communist libertarian.


bilbo - 23/11/08 at 11:55 PM

I'm the following:

Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64

Which leaves me closest to the Dalai Lama, Gandhi and Nelson Mandela

To be honset, it's the best company compared to some of the other people on the graph!

Actually, it's pobably all a bit rubbish as you are forced to choose positives or negatives where as a lot of the questions I was looking for a 'no preference' - maybe that say's something about me too


Andi - 24/11/08 at 12:07 AM

bottom left but I demand more choices to the questions. Maybe Im a troublemaker
http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.25&soc=-2.41


mediabloke - 24/11/08 at 12:46 AM

It posed some interesting questions, but most credible politicians would reword some of the questions easily to coerce different answers...

No prizes for guessing I was in the bottom left:

Economic Left/Right: -3.75, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79

So whereabouts should "healthily cynical" appear in the graph?


DorsetStrider - 24/11/08 at 02:36 AM

Economic = -4.12
Social = -2.26

So when do I start running the country?


smart51 - 24/11/08 at 08:20 AM

economic -6.38, Libitarian -1.23. Quite close to Ghandi, aparently. Almost diametrically opposed to Thatcher.

Interestingly, it puts Gordon Brown as about 50% right wing and 20% authoritarian.


coozer - 24/11/08 at 08:29 AM

Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.67

And I've no idea what that means. Maybe Hitler was on the right path?


blakep82 - 24/11/08 at 08:43 AM

i didn't understand the questions


mcerd1 - 24/11/08 at 09:26 AM

It puts me here:
Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59


can anyone else see a trend here ? (at least with those admiting there results )


quote:
Originally posted by bilbo
Which leaves me closest to the Dalai Lama, Gandhi and Nelson Mandela

To be honset, it's the best company compared to some of the other people on the graph!

Actually, it's pobably all a bit rubbish as you are forced to choose positives or negatives where as a lot of the questions I was looking for a 'no preference' - maybe that say's something about me too

I think that about sums it up for me too


smart51 - 24/11/08 at 09:32 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
can anyone else see a trend here ? (at least with those admiting there results )
We're all anarchic lefties?

quote:
Originally posted by bilbo
Actually, it's pobably all a bit rubbish as you are forced to choose positives or negatives where as a lot of the questions I was looking for a 'no preference'
Perhaps it's deliberate. Few people are absolutley neutral and lean one way or the other if they stop to think about it.




Is our collective leftieness a feature of our car building tendancies or our willingness to do internet quizes?


NS Dev - 24/11/08 at 10:07 AM

another anarchic leftie here as well! not too far from dead centre actually!


bilbo - 24/11/08 at 10:12 AM

quote:
Originally posted by smart51
We're all anarchic lefties?



Sounds about right

I thought about this as my new avatar, what do you think

Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama


DarrenW - 24/11/08 at 10:35 AM

Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.49


Im close to Ghandi and Nelson too.

For several questions id prefer to see a neutral answer but was forced to choose agree or disagree.


scootz - 24/11/08 at 10:41 AM

Eeek... I'm an Authoritarian Leftist.

Me and the Pope... we park our cars in the same garage!


smart51 - 24/11/08 at 10:55 AM

quote:
Originally posted by DarrenW
For several questions id prefer to see a neutral answer but was forced to choose agree or disagree.


Their FAQ section has a few words on this. They want to make people think rather than let them cop out on trick questions.


JonBowden - 24/11/08 at 10:59 AM

I gave up half way through the second page. I refused to be forced to either have a positive or negative point of view on many of the issues.
I felt the questions were forcing me to take a far left position


StevieB - 24/11/08 at 11:27 AM

I'm slightly right wing libertarian, but just about straight down the middle of the compass.

Might not have been so had there been more questions about my views on criminals and other leaches of the state!


Benzine - 24/11/08 at 12:29 PM


adithorp - 24/11/08 at 05:02 PM

Well I'm sat with Nelson Mandela so I'm in good company.

adrian