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Subject: Political Compass From: Ringer Date: 05 Sep 01 - 09:36 AM I was reminded by the "Folk Politics" thread of this site (Click). It purports to place your outlook not only on a left/right continuum, but also on a liberal/authoritarian one as well. I've always considered myself to be right-wing (economically more so than politically), but was placed bang in the middle left/right (0.0) with just a teensy-weensy bit of the authoritarian (0.1). Any one else like to play (and, preferably, disclose the results, which is where the interest will lie)? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: jeffp Date: 05 Sep 01 - 09:53 AM I wound up at Economic Left/Right: -4.63 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -5.49 That puts me in the Libertarian Left quadrant, which I am happy to share with Gandhi. I consider that quite an honor. I see that my place on the grid is near to that of Ken Livingstone. Could someone in the UK please tell me if this is a good or a bad thing? Interesting quiz. jeffp |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Sep 01 - 09:54 AM I find these tests generally don't reflect how flexible humans actually are when we are operating rationally. But if it is of interest to anyone, I tested as pretty libertarian left. I came up just to the right of Gandhi, or Economic Left/Right: -4.13 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.56. Sort of at the other end from the religious right, which is where a shckingly large number of people (who should know better) often EXPECT me to be. Surprise! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: KingBrilliant Date: 05 Sep 01 - 09:55 AM I come out in the same location as Ghandi. That makes me a lefty-libertarian. I thought I had a bit more right in me actually - but I expect its about right. Kris |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Bagpuss Date: 05 Sep 01 - 09:59 AM I played. I scored -4.25 and -4.46. Making me a leftist libertarian. I never knew I had so much in common with Ghandi!! Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Bagpuss Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:02 AM Jeff P - do you have a collection of newts? Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:03 AM Well, I show up as somewhere between Charles Kennedy and Tony Benn - I could have told you that without doing that test, actually. What a thing it is to know oneself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Bagpuss Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:06 AM Just checked the politicians. I knew my version of the labour party would be more like the lib dems than Tory Tonys new labour. Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: jeffp Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:15 AM No, should I? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: GUEST,mgarvey@pacifier.com Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:15 AM close to dead center. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: MMario Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:16 AM -5 and -4.15 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Bagpuss Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:24 AM Jeff P _ was just checking you weren't the *real* Red Ken Livingstone (who does indeed own newts). ;-) KT |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: KingBrilliant Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:29 AM We've got newts in the garden - d'you reckon there's a significance there? Perhaps the newts are controlling us. Wouldn't surprise me in the least. Did Ghandi have any? Kristin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: jeffp Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:32 AM Well, my sister used to have a pair of salamanders - named Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Christopher Marlowe. Does that count? jeffp |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: KingBrilliant Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:36 AM I think our newts are all called Isaac. Kristin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Ringer Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:40 AM I've got a pair, too, but I don't boast about it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Bagpuss Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:44 AM I call mine "Tiny"............... The old jokes are the worst eh? Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: mooman Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:50 AM -4.88 and -6.05 About as left as Ghandi but a little more libertarian. mooman |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Jack the Sailor Date: 05 Sep 01 - 01:12 PM Economic Left/Right: -1.88 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.00 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Sep 01 - 01:59 PM -1.75 left/right and -6.92 auth/lib - I'm with Ghandi too but am apparently a lot less left-wing than I'd have thought - but at least this has settled the argument I was having with my politico friend who was claiming that the extreme of my view was communism and I was sure it wasn't - anarchy makes a LOT more sense! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Gareth Date: 05 Sep 01 - 02:52 PM I was shocked -0.72 ib/auth and -8.25 left right Damn, I demand a recount. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Roger in Sheffield Date: 05 Sep 01 - 02:59 PM Economic Left/Right: -6.75 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -5.59 I have loads of Newts in the garden and always think Tony Benn makes more sense than NEW Labour. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Jack the Sailor Date: 05 Sep 01 - 03:25 PM I think Newt would probably be something like
Economic Left/Right: 6.00 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: toadfrog Date: 05 Sep 01 - 07:09 PM Left/Right -4.38 Auth/Lib -4.46. I feel awful wishy-washy. I also found it hard to figure out what some of those questions meant. Basically, I figure what this proves about me is that I'm sucker enough to waste time on dumb tests. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Skeptic Date: 05 Sep 01 - 07:49 PM Economic Left/Right: -5.38 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.62 I thought I'd come up a little less libertarian and a bit more to the left. My mission today is to see if Troll will take the test. Bald Eagle, thanks for a fun link. Regards John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Shields Folk Date: 05 Sep 01 - 08:23 PM Economic Left/Right: -5.25 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.72 I must admit I'm confused. Its a position I would like to think I was in but I know I'm flawed, and I sometimes drift more to the authoritarian. Conciously taking the test must influence your position but overall I'm happy with it. No I must admit I am not as liberal and left wing as Ken Livingstone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: AliUK Date: 05 Sep 01 - 08:36 PM left/libertarian a bit down and behind Gahndi...that was fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 05 Sep 01 - 08:49 PM Economic -0.63 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Sorcha Date: 05 Sep 01 - 09:03 PM Left libertarian, a bit high and to the left of Ghandi. And the asshole guest continues to call us racist???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 05 Sep 01 - 09:13 PM Authoritarin-1.33 Why is everybody getting higher scores than me? What does this mean? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: toadfrog Date: 05 Sep 01 - 11:20 PM Some of the questions baffled me. What does it mean to say "think globally but act localy"? That sounds like a non-political platitude. Is it somebody's slogan? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Amergin Date: 05 Sep 01 - 11:58 PM not surprisingly...I was very left.... Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -6.75 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.05 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: GUEST Date: 06 Sep 01 - 02:12 AM Interesting. -4.38, -5.90. I'm with john in hull though- not sure what it's actually telling me. Pretty limited list of historic figures- can you imagine coming up as a dead match for Hitler. Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Roger in Sheffield Date: 06 Sep 01 - 03:30 AM I think it tells you what you already know so its not really telling you anything I guessed I would be opposite in views to Mrs T I did think at times that I would like to sit on the fence with some of the questions but that isn't allowed John in Hull it isn't about good/bad it just reflects how you see the world, higher 'scores' suggest peoples views are more extreme and possibly that they are less likely to be able to 'see' both sides of an issue I would love my boss and his wife to try it though to see if they are far right of Mrs T as I expect |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Ringer Date: 06 Sep 01 - 04:07 AM All those negative scores: what a wishy-washy load of pinko liberals you all are *BG* ! However, from my own score, I estimate that you have to correct the results by adding at least 8, so I think you are all really mildly conservative. Which is a big relief to me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Terry K Date: 06 Sep 01 - 04:08 AM Great fun. At 0.00 and -1.44 I fall exactly between Robin Cook and Charles Kennedy. Oh dear. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: BlueJay Date: 06 Sep 01 - 04:18 AM Lib/ Left, a few squares below and to the right of the center of the quadrant. Hmmm. A bit farther to the right than I would have expected. Fun, anyway. BlueJay |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Linda Kelly Date: 06 Sep 01 - 06:23 AM Lefty/libertarian -well no surprise there. Fell between Tony Benn (who is my hero) and Ken Livingstone (who isn't).Surprised I am not more authoritarian, given that people tell me I'm a control freak. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: John P Date: 06 Sep 01 - 08:45 AM I ended up about where I expected to: -6 right/left and -7 auth/lib. Maybe I usually see the word "Libertarian" used differently, because the Libertarian candidates in elections usually piss me off. I believe in strong laws about how we treat each other, but think laws about what we do privately are terrible. Ickle Dorritt, I'm a control freak also, but only with myself. I don't try to control other people -- and my day job is being the manager of a small company with 40 employees! John Peekstok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: English Jon Date: 06 Sep 01 - 11:58 AM Economic Left/Right: -6.25 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.67 About what I'd expected... EJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Gervase Date: 21 Sep 01 - 08:35 AM Economic Left/Right: -4.50 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -8.00 Dunno what to make of that! Thought I was a tad more left that that, but ho-hum. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Sep 01 - 02:47 PM I came out near Gandhi and Ken Livingstone. Good enough for me.
But I think this Political Compass one is a lot more sophisticated than the Torygraph is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Sep 01 - 05:35 PM That is to say:
Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Mind, I think there needs to be a third dimension around whether you tend to like things to change or to stay the same, other things being equal. Bit hard to show on a screen though. That gets mixed up in the left right spectrum, but it's different, as was demonstrated when they started referring to communists in Russia as "conservatives", or when Tony Blair starting using forces of conservatism as a ragbag to include all the people on they left who thought he was too right wing.
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Kim C Date: 21 Sep 01 - 05:59 PM Hmm. I am a leftist Libertarian. Damned if I know what it means... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Penny S. Date: 21 Sep 01 - 06:24 PM -6.75, -6.21, Benn and Ken territory. But I think there's a bias in the test. I suspect some of the +, + statements are so stereotypical that the only ones likely to agree are not very bright members of far-right groups. (Though I did once hear a member of the National Union of Teachers claim that as we were a democratic union, it was for those elected onto the committee to tell everyone else to do, and they would obey. If the expression had been around then, I would have been, like, hello?) Some of the characters on the graph did not assess themselves, as we did - and we can't tell which ones entirely. Maybe none did. And the assessment from outside will be different from that from personal assessment. Interesting that there is a distinct trend from bottom left to upper right, with some people oddly off it. And the directions of proposed movement are curious. Could the political development of types be plotted like the life of stars on the main sequence diagram? Does anyone ever move down to the left? Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: John Routledge Date: 21 Sep 01 - 06:24 PM Economic Left/Right -1.50 Auth/Libitarian -3.44 Seems right where I would put myself intuitively - Creepy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Metchosin Date: 21 Sep 01 - 06:47 PM Another Leftist/Libertarian here too. L/R -5.75, A/L -6.72 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Sep 01 - 06:49 PM Some of the time I found myself neither agreeing nor disagreeing with the point of view, but having a point if view that didn't really fit in.
For example we were asked to agree or disagree with the statement "I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong". But I believe that anybody who loves their country has a duty to oppose and resist their government when it goes wrong, and in doing so they are in fact supporting their country.
And there are other questions like that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Paul from Hull Date: 21 Sep 01 - 07:02 PM Hmmmm....questions seemed rather 'black & white', though I was surprised, when I saw the results, how Leftist AND Libertarian it suggested I was (no bad thing)...but from the slant of the questions (& a lack of opportunity to be non-committal on some very 'fixed' questions) I was surprised that I didnt come out both slightly into the Authoritarian AND Right-ist zones... Frightening thas I'm close to the same area as Tony Benn & Arthur Scargill.... Economic Left/Right: -6.25 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.26 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Political Compass From: Jim Dixon Date: 21 Sep 01 - 07:04 PM I'm left -5.50 and libertarian -5.23. It seems most Mudcatters are firmly down in the liberal-left quadrant. I only wish they had some American politicians listed for comparison. I'm down with Ken Livingstone and Tony Benn but I have no idea who they are. Should Americans be rated on a different scale from Brits? I mean, liberal compared to what? I would guess the American "center" is more right-libertarian than the British center. Would you agree? |