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http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

my result:


(close to gandhi!)
Interpret it:



Its an interesting test and it hits the result quite good

Here's mine for reference:

Here's my results

Nice test



[Edit]
Even closer to Ghandi

I don't feel like going to the trouble to upload a pic, so here's the text version of where I stand:

Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56

That puts me about as far left as Gandhi, but a fair bit more libertarian.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.90

I remember when this went around the powerbasic forum, about 60% of the people were well into the blue

Defintely setup by a leftwing programmer, or at least a marketeer. Talking about suggestive questions...

... what a bull. After filling it in (and more then once being baffled at the questions and what they suggest) I'm now totally convinced this thing is as biassed as possible. I'm pretty much a right winger, though not an extremist, yet filling out this thing leaves me somewhere close to the middle.

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.38

Bull.

Another 3 minutes of my life wasted.

You know who should be really pitied? Those that actually use this to decide how to vote! Laughable...

This really happened, it's from a game show on British TV:

Host: "What was Ghandis' first name?"
Contestant: "Goosey"

blueznl wrote: I'm pretty much a right winger, though not an extremist, yet filling out this thing leaves me somewhere close to the middle.

MAYBE YOU'RE JUST NOT AS RIGHT AS YOU THOUGHT YOU WHERE YOU NEO LIBERALISTIC FAGGOT

eventually i dislike communists. But so do i dislike people to the other side. Of course education and hard work and the thing you have a BRAIN should give you extra money and goods than if you don't bother taking an education etc etc. But on the other hand this doesn't mean the bottom of the society shouldn't be able to have a decently good life with also free choises for schools, free hospitals etc.

Agree, Some of these questions go nowhere and are ambiguous. These:
- military action that defies international law is sometimes justified.
- protectionism is sometimes necessary in trade

Sometimes? well, I guess whether you agree or disagree in general there's probably some sitation where these are justified :roll:

And this!!!!
- a genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies.

Are they asking if I agree with having restrictions on monopolies or are they checking if I understand the definition of a genuine free market? Or are they asking if I think free markets are bad because of this??

People will answer differently not because of their left/right bent but because of the interpretation of the question (trying to guess where the author is going to score it)

pdwyer wrote: And this!!!!
- a genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies.

Are they asking if I agree with having restrictions on monopolies or are they checking if I understand the definition of a genuine free market? Or are they asking if I think free markets are bad because of this??

Yes. Of course it's not free while there are restrictions, but that's why a free market is not desirable. And we just have to guess whether the makers of the test understood what they wrote...

pdwyer wrote:Agree, Some of these questions go nowhere and are ambiguous. These:
- military action that defies international law is sometimes justified.
- protectionism is sometimes necessary in trade

Sometimes? well, I guess whether you agree or disagree in general there's probably some sitation where these are justified :roll:

And this!!!!
- a genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies.

Are they asking if I agree with having restrictions on monopolies or are they checking if I understand the definition of a genuine free market? Or are they asking if I think free markets are bad because of this??

People will answer differently not because of their left/right bent but because of the interpretation of the question (trying to guess where the author is going to score it)

The first: yes of course. there is nothing weird about that. Disagree means "sometimes agree", agree means "sometimes disagree", but mostly the thing you chose.

Are they asking if I agree with having restrictions on monopolies or are they checking if I understand the definition of a genuine free market? Or are they asking if I think free markets are bad because of this??

I don't see what there is to misunderstand.

This is my chart:

Pretty accurate I'd say (although I would have thought I was maybe a tad more liberal).

When you look at the positions of the UK political parties on their chart they also look about right.

I get irritated when I hear main stream politicians referring to the BNP as extreme right wing, this is a party that doesn't even believe in a free market economy. They're real lefties.

Authoritarian? Yes. Right wing? No.

blueznl wrote:Another 3 minutes of my life wasted

thank me for saving your hand from another 3 minute wanking before going to work

Pretty accurate I'd say (although I would have thought I was maybe a tad more liberal).

Thats the general thought people have when trying it
I bet blueznl is just unhappy his spot didn't cover HITLER's while mine nearly bumbled in to Gandhi