Political Compass 2010

Yeah, no bias in that test!

Right there wil Milton Friedman.

Economic Left/Right: 4
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -3.95

Some of the questions are still stupid, for example:

"Mothers may have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers."

Well, I agree with that, but I also think it's the fathers first duty too. I think a parent should stay at home, but on the basis of who's the most appropriate. If the mothers sensible and the fathers a yahoo, then mother should stay at home and vice versa. If both are idiots then you've got a problem.

"A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."

Well, yes, that's a given - I selected 'disagree' on the basis I assume it was about if you'd approve of a one party state (I may do depending on the party - I'm more interested in individual freedom, and a libertarian leaning monarch may offer more of that a collection of statist parties to pick from) and generally I don't. Stupid question.

"Making peace with the establishment is an important aspect of maturity."

Yes, making peace with it is, bending over and getting reamed by the fuckers on the other hand... I like to think I've achieved a certain level of détente with the establishment - they don't try and fuck me over to much, and I don't try and extract their frontal cortex through their eyeballs with a corkscrew. Plenty of wiggle room left without making some molotovs.

Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

I seem balanced...

About where I expected:

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00

Yeah right.

Economic Left/Right: 7.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.00

For me, too.

Economic Left/Right: 8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51

Usually a little further to the right and down but broadly right.

I'm surprised at all of the liberals here. :beatnik:

:santa_huh:
The test and this thread are crap.
Sometimes the truth can hurt. :santa_sad:

:santa_grin:

Roughly as expected...

Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18

You either misunderstand the question, or you misunderstand the terms "agree" and "disagree".

FTFY

I figured if he misunderstood the term "strongly", he probably shouldn't be out and about without a caregiver.

About where I always come out on this one. It's been around and been popular long enough that you'd expect the ambiguous wordings and compound questions to be cleaned up by now. I also tend to think that the economic scale of the test is just hopeless as it conflates socialism and regulatory capitalism. It's not a great test, but it's far better than the other similar ones out there.

You could always take this biased one.
Personal Issues


Government should not censor speech, press, media, or internet.
Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft.
There should be no laws regarding sex for consenting adults.
Repeal laws prohibiting adult possession and use of drugs.
There should be no National ID card.

Economic Issues

Disagree Maybe Agree
End "corporate welfare." No government handouts to business.
End government barriers to international free trade.
Let people control their own retirement; privatize Social Security.
Replace government welfare with private charity.
Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more.

Or, you think that by servering the shareholders, it is serving the interests of humanity.

That question is purposefully framed to make capitalism look ridiculous.

I show up in roughly the same place in these, as well. In case you were wondering.

No. It's asking you if you think a global economy should focus on business or people.

We have welfare in this country - should a global economy help out the poor on a global scale.

And it assumes that by focusing on one, you are against the other. That's the bias.

Economic Left/Right: -3.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.21

Interesting.

I found this page interesting. http://www.politicalcompass.org/composers

Economic Left/Right: 8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97



Strange, usually I'm farther right than that... oh right, I didn't answer the "what's best for the most successful corporations is ultimately best for everyone" question the way I usually do, because they map that one incorrectly; what's best for the most successful corporations is the government mandating that we purchase their products and giving them subsidies, but that's clearly NOT what the test writers were thinking of, so when you answer that "strongly agree", it moves you to the right, rather than the left (and up) as it should.

I've moved a bit toward the libertarian end. Usually I'm really close to 0,0.

:wehaveawinner: Exactly the question falsely implies that it is an either or proposition. :smoking:

No it's not. Let me clue you in to something businesses are made up of people. I some cases by lots of people.

And it's a disaster.

I would venture that creating jobs where none had existed before is the best way to aid the poor anywhere.

And I think my years-long slide towards libertarianism/laissez-faire continues...

Economic Left/Right: 8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.64

I think I'm now sharing a square with Milton Friedman.

But, damn, some of those questions were just awful in terms of built-in bias.