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Last time I took the test, I was in the green quadrant near the center.
 
Look on my views, ye Mighty, and despair!

Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36
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I don't think the Authoritarian/Libertarian split is very accurate for my views; I'm fairly libertarian towards social issues but not economic. The big issue that should send that dot northward is that I believe strongly that we should have single payer health care. However, I feel that the left/right split is pretty accurate. It might be a bit too far to the left but I have no quibbles with it.

(PS. Anyone want to guess what region I'm from?)
 
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Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: 1.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92
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Not too surprising. I've moved more towards the center in the past few years.
 
HipstrsGonnaHip said:
Look on my views, ye Mighty, and despair!

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I don't think the Authoritarian/Libertarian split is very accurate for my views; I'm fairly libertarian towards social issues but not economic. The big issue that should send that dot northward is that I believe strongly that we should have single payer health care. However, I feel that the left/right split is pretty accurate. It might be a bit too far to the left but I have no quibbles with it.

(PS. Anyone want to guess what region I'm from?)
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New England?

Anyway
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Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.36

Funny, I consider myself to be more right-winged...maybe it doesn't work if you're european? idk.
 
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I would recommend to reupload your result image to imgur/saving then uploading since they seem to expire on this website.

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Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: 7.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74

I expected to be rated more Libertarian and less Right winged.
 
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...I think I broke it.

It apparently has labelled me an anti-authority anarchist, and anyone remotely familiar with me on this forum knows that shit isn't right.
Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.95
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I've move a little farther down since the last time I took this test.
 
Forgive me as I special snowflake... but a few of the questions I neither agreed or disagreed with. Like "first generation immigrants never fully assimilate to their culture". That's a false dichotomy. Culture is constantly changing.

There was a point no one would say that "Curry" was a British dish. The culture has completely embraced that food and now call it it's own. So now someone coming to that country from South East Asia would not have to abandon their 'food identity' which would be a big part of assimilation.

Here's my chart and I give it as much credence as 'which Smurf are you' polls:

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Economic Left/Right: 2.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.9

Hmm, I would have expected a bit more north, but I guess not hating gays is what drove it further south. The questions about sexuality really just seemed out of place.
 
Glaive said:
Your explanation of the employment versus inflation question sounds very correct to me. Employment would push it left, lower inflation would push it right.

As for the patriotism question, agreeing would push you south, disagree would push you north. Because nationalism is high up on the north side, while more mutalism and cohabitual pluralism type stuff is down on the south side. I wonder who our first user to break the X axis will be and go authoritarian? If anyone at all.
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Glaive you handsome devil, I'm sorry I missed your reply a few days ago. Not sure what happened. Anyway, your words moved me and I went ahead and took the test. While I don't necessarily agree with some of the assertions like somehow patriotism expresses libertarian or authoritarian notions, I did the best I could with answering. When I felt the question was loaded or going to be misleading I always chose "disagree"

Here is my result.

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Economic Left/Right: 7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 5.18
 
This test really isn't my favorite, as I feel that it puts too much weight on certain questions. I also especially dislike it in regards to distinguishing the level of salience among each question or topic. Given, any attempt to plot political beliefs along a scale or plane or something is going to have issues.

klystron said:
Then there are questions you cannot answer with the choices given. Like the first one about globalization. Should it benefit people or corporations? Really? In the free market corporations only survive when they benefit the people. Perhaps the asker is eluding to there being no free market.
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The point is to be vague and generalist in the questions. They're trying to make it as black and white as possible, when most people would probably be in a shade of gray. The reason for doing so is logical, but it's still one of the reasons that I dislike this test.

klystron said:
Regardless of which, I feel too @Cowlick to complete this test.
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I, too, would like to see this.

Anyway, here's mine:

Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: 5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.1

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EDIT: I just reread this five hours later. I cannot fucking type when I'm sleep deprived.
 
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Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.44

This doesn't really surprise me. I've ways tended toward anarcho-communism and have always been pretty 'radical' in terms of liberation philosophy.

:ween:
 
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