If anyone has the ability to recover the oldest of the previous threads of this sort, please link them for honest comparison. After the mini-discussion of how my views have changed, I decided to go for a more objective assessment. Not that any of these such things are perfect but at least one can make comparisons over time. I tried hard to answer the "before" chart on the left as I would have 15 years ago, but it seems to put me closer to the middle than I recall being accurate. I've noted my opinion of my former views with an X, saved from being on the margins by virtue of NOT being a racist which some of the questions obviously fish for. Stlll the more interesting result here for me is the chart on the right, reflecting my answers according to my current politics. Nothing their colored by flawed memory. How would your answers be different than they were 15 years ago?
I would speculate that if you plotted a course between the two, you'd first see a dramatic dip towards Libertarian positioning, maybe 2 points below where it is now, then some helium back towards the middle as I drift left
I don't know what would have been different 15 years ago. I may have shifted a bit closer to center on the left/right scale but I think the strongly libertarian/anti-authoritarian spot would be consistent. It's a pretty fundamental part of my personality and value system. I value freedom over comfort/security and always have. I think that it would take a very extreme set of circumstances that I've been lucky to avoid this far in my life to change that.
Not too much change in position over the years, though I know my answers to some of the questions have changed. I’ve also noticed it makes a real difference whether you “strongly” agree/disagree with most items.
Hm. I think I may have been above the line and a bit farther right last time. But I'm pretty much a fence-sitter these days. I wish the questions had a neutral or "don't care" choice. Or a couple should have had a WTF??? choice. No gun control questions either - that would have moved me right.
Compared to 10-15 years ago, I'm several units south on the libertarian spectrum and 3-4 units left on the left spectrum. I was much closer to center a decade ago, but leaned slightly left and libertarian. Part of this change I attribute to my own education and work experience, and part of this I attribute to national and global events over the last 15 years. Your Political Compass Economic Left/Right: -4.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28
I'm about in the same place, maybe slightly to the left. I was neighbors with Milton Friedman many years ago, and I still am.
I've taken it three times since 2009 and saved The results come out pretty much the same every time. They are almost identical to @Paladin's but maybe two lines lower. I'm on my phone, but when I get the chance I will retake the test.
I work out the same every time I take the thing, a moderate centrist with libertarian leanings. Hasn't changed since the first time.
Mine from 2007: Economic Left/Right: 2.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.67 Mine from just now: Economic Left/Right: -0.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44
Same here. I thought I might get a look at the transition process of my beliefs, as 2007 would be right around the mid-point.
Current score: 15 years ago I was about the same on the social axis, but further right on the economic axis. 15 years ago I was 18, and I was pretty solidly Libertarian back then. I've since drifted left because being Libertarian is easy when one lives with their parents, but much more difficult when one is an adult and out on their own. I've noticed that a lot of people who were libertarian in their late teens/early 20s are liberals once they hit their 30s.
I still think a lot of these are scored as false dichotomies (and incorrectly at that). Not happy about that. Economic Left/Right: 6.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.72 2007: (7.75, -5.95) 2008: (9.00, -7.23) https://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/the-political-compass-we-havent-done-this-in-awhile.65700/ 2009: (10.00, -7.38) https://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/new-political-compass-thread.70245/ (I really, really didn't like the mapping of questions to scores that year, so I gamed it a bit. All my comments (on page 2) still apply.) 2010: (8.88, -6.97) https://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/political-compass-2010.84129/ (in which I rehash just how bad one question in particular is) 2014: (6.25,-7.23) https://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/its-that-time-again-political-compass-2014.105058/ Looks like I gave up on trying to game the test by now. This is the least libertarian I've been in ages, apparently, but oddly not the most left. I think it might be because I took the "it is a waste of time to try to rehabilitate some criminals" as retrospective rather than prospective (and so marked agree, because that's clearly true, but not strongly because it's possible that untried rehabilitation methods would have worked). I wonder why I did that. Seriously. Why would I do that?
Here's where I was in 2007: And here's me now. I seem to be one of the few people moving to the right, if only slightly. The only different answer that stood out to me was about the dangers of infotainment. I think we've all learned a lesson on that.
It is kind of interesting though that while people used to say you get more conservative as you get older, most posters here seem to be moving in the opposite direction.
