Now better! We have a Poll! Thank you Mods!
Please reference the following grid number to identify yourself.
KevinNash has gone through the trouble of putting reference labels on the grid. This is the updated version that's no longer hampered by my flawed grid. Naturally, it's still no perfect indicator of your individual position, so don't let it get to you.
KevinNash' Grid
I present to you the first ever PA D&D Political Compass poll.
The idea is simple. Each of us takes a short, ~40 question political quiz to identify our ideological leanings. We will be using the
Political Compass test. Naturally, any Internet instrument I choose for this is subject to heavy criticism. To keep this thread from becoming too meta however, please post your bitching about the instrument in spoilers. Like so.
This test totally sucks! We should be using
that test instead.
Please include in your bitching what test you would prefer. Who knows, it may become the choice for the next such thread.
Would you kindly:1. Follow
link. Take test.
2. Post your coordinates, so that others can do fancy statistical analysis. You find your coordinates in the URL of the printable graph version of the results. They are found after "ec=" and "soc=". If you look at the URL of my picture below, you will find that I score ec=4.25 and soc=-5.79.
3. Post a picture of your graph, in spoilers, like so.
Please note that the axes are labelled using the British meaning of the terms, not the American. Left => Liberal, Libertarian => Anarchist, Right => Conservative.
This is based on a short discussion on the political leanings of the PA D&D subforum in the Rand Paul thread.
Enjoy!
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Yeah, this thing was all over the presidential election threads for a short while.
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.26
Really because I'm pretty damn far from big L Libertarianism on this scale. I think they just suck at labeling their axis.
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.21
me:
for reference:
"A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."
Why yes, speed of decision making is an advantage of a one-party state. But I don't want one no matter how advantageous that is.
So, remembering the last time I took this, I seem a lot more vehement in my choices. I used to only rarely choose "strongly."
Also, please post your alternative. I'm wide open (:winky:) to suggestions.
I find the left/right axis to be meaningless other than for historical discussion of the French revolution.
This test neatly sums up why, as it classified me a slightly left (oh wow) and slightly authoritarian (correct). Must have been all the anti-corporation responses.
You and me, we're like this.
Hey cow, we're pretty close.
Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67
Economic Left/Right: 5.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.59
Though posting it now is quite appropriate given the recent discussion in the Rand Paul thread about the efforts by Ron Paul supporters to use deceit (spam etc...) to give the false impression that their ideology is more widely accepted than it is.
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10
Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18
Go, Go Gadget lower left quadrant!
If I want to add a poll to this thread to compile responses, do I have to ask a mod? How does it work?
I should have mentioned. The axes follow the British meaning of these terms, not the American. Replace "Libertarian" with "Anarchist," and it makes more sense in an American context.
Anyway...
Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.49
Turns out I'm left-wing. I am so not shocked by this.
-3.62/-4.77
Guess I gotta break out the Patchouli
http://www.bcaplan.com/cgi-bin/purity.cgi
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian = -1.49
Results from Advocates for Self Government(text only; couldn't upload image):
Yeah, pretty much what I expected.
1) Which do you like more?
a: Libertarian policy
b: Kicking puppies
B.
Also, ya'll are a bunch of hippies.
So which is it? Commie Statist or Libertarian? Make up your mind.
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.72
That other test is ridiculous. It's probably the most biased test ever.
A. Vote for Obama
B. Elect a corpse and a G-MILF
The second one I linked is designed to make almost everyone come out libertarian.
Libertarian as opposite of authoritarian is not the same as "Libertarian as espoused by the American Libertarian Party."
It just means "in general, liberty is better for people than strictures".
Here's mine:
Erm... American Liberal.
Spoilered by request.
Fascist. :P
Run, Galahad! Before the liberals get you!
I dunno about liberal/conservative.
I've been described by friends on either side of me on the political spectrum as "stubbornly naive."
Edit: I think I skew to the right because I don't see big corporations as boogymen.