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General => Archive => Political and Religious => Topic started by: juice on February 09, 2010, 06:57:32 PM
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This tells you where you're political views are for the most part. I did it and got…
Economic Left/Right: -0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.10
https://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-0.75&soc=0.10 (https://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-0.75&soc=0.10)
Pretty close to the middle of the thing even though I always thought i leaned more to the right. ha What are your results?
https://www.politicalcompass.org/test (https://www.politicalcompass.org/test)
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I think this quiz is more accurate, to be honest.
https://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html (https://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html)
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Economic left/right: -0.62
Social Libertarian/Authortarian: -4.36
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I like your username :D
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I like your username :D
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I am a right moderate social authoritarian.
Right: 4.84
Authoritarian: 1.47
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-4.50&soc=-7.44)
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I like your username :D
If that was directed at me, I thank you, sir. I'm a huge Maiden fan.
Do you guys think that these tests are accurate? I do consider myself to be a libertarian as far as individual rights go ect. ect., but I'll be the first to admit that I'm very much in the dark about the financial/corporate side of things. I suppose that I can accept the results that the test gave me are accurate for me. Do others feel like they're accurate for them also?
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-5.12&soc=-0.77)
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I like your username :D
If that was directed at me, I thank you, sir. I'm a huge Maiden fan.
As am I, and PS is my favorite album by them.
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I like your username :D
If that was directed at me, I thank you, sir. I'm a huge Maiden fan.
Do you guys think that these tests are accurate? I do consider myself to be a libertarian as far as individual rights go ect. ect., but I'll be the first to admit that I'm very much in the dark about the financial/corporate side of things. I suppose that I can accept the results that the test gave me are accurate for me. Do others feel like they're accurate for them also?
I'm in the right quadrant, but as to where I belong there... don't really know, don't really care. It will depend entirely upon the criteria set up by the tests, and exactly what each tests means by liberal, libertarian, authoritian and conservative. In some tests, I come out rather moderate, others more radical.
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-4.50&soc=-7.44)
This, just a little bit higher up and a little bit closer to the right.
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I like your username :D
If that was directed at me, I thank you, sir. I'm a huge Maiden fan.
As am I, and PS is my favorite album by them.
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.25&soc=-4.56)
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-4.75&soc=-5.69)
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.25&soc=-4.72)
Weird, I thought I would be a lot more central...
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.50&soc=-3.95)
Whaddaya expect?!
Weird, I thought I would be a lot more central...
Same here. I consider my opinions pretty center. It would be interesting to see whether the average of all users really is the center of the graph, or whether the origin was simply chosen by the author as "center".
rumborak
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Same here. I consider my opinions pretty center. It would be interesting to see whether the average of all users really is the center of the graph, or whether the origin was simply chosen by the author as "center".
rumborak
I highly doubt it would. I think that the x origin is pretty close to the average, but from most of the responses I've seen (not just here), people on average are more libertarian than authoritarian.
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=1.62&soc=-3.44)
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-5.38&soc=-4.62)
I think this is correct
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I think this is correct
I'm pretty close to this. Perhaps a bit further down.
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.00&soc=-3.90)
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.00&soc=-3.90)
I got basically this, a little bit up towards Authoritarian but not crossing the line.
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Left: 6.02, Libertarian: 5.49
Nathan is a left social libertarian. He is also a non-interventionist and culturally liberal.
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I am the most libertarian left leaning guy that posted?
Weird.
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[img]https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-1.75&soc=-5.18[/quote]
Considering how much I disagree with NG and WW, I'm curious where they'd end up.
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omg ur all on my side lets b friends !!1!11
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omg ur all on my side lets b friends !!1!11
Post your results. I only base my friends on their results to this test.
If you are not near my red dot, we are not a match.
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omg ur all on my side lets b friends !!1!11
Post your results. I only base my friends on their results to this test.
If you are not near my red dot, we are not a match.
American politics in three short sentences.
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Hah, I'm more libertarian than tuneman. Suck on that constitution.
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Well, I'm still more libertarian than all of the none right wing extremists and scottish freedom fighters.
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That test seems silly. Most of these are fun, but really don't get to the heart of things.
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That test seems silly. Most of these are fun, but really don't get to the heart of things.
They don't give you someone's political philosophy, no, but they do a fairly good job of crudely graphing your political position.
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-5.25&soc=-7.38)
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38
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Foreign Policy:
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On the left side are pacifists and anti-war activists. On the right side are those who want a strong military that intervenes around the world. You scored: -9.36
Culture:
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Where are you in the culture war? On the liberal side, or the conservative side? This scale may apply more to the US than other countries. You scored: -6.24
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Economic Left/Right: .12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10
The economic results are skewed a little bit because the test is meant to measure attitudes rather than your beliefs on policy. The tests ask whether you think globalization should serve the interests of multinational companies or people. Well of course I think it should support people. The test also asks if Multinational corporations are unethically exploiting third world resources. I'd say so.
All those responses mean is that I would hope for the economy to work for the interests of the greater good. That doesn't mean (a) the greater good should trump individual liberties or (b) I think economic regulation is the best way to achieve the best results for humanity as a whole.
Maybe all the test is meant to measure is attitudes, which is fine. But I'm not quite sure.
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Yeah I started to take it and then quit. Among other things, the questions are overly simplistic to a ridiculous degree. I understand that it's "just designed to gauge general leanings", but these things are a pointless waste of time IMO.
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(https://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc449/Thecountofdetroit/pcgraphpng.png) I'd think I would be even more libertarian.
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It seems the majority of DTF are all pretty similar in their views.
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https://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=6.00&soc=3.44
Economic Left/Right: 6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.44
EDIT: I seem to be by myself here...
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I took the test again, and compared to the last results (on the first page) I moved one column over to the left.
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I took the test again, and compared to the last results (on the first page) I moved one column over to the left.
I've become slightly more of a libertarian in the last year.
(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=7.75&soc=-4.67)
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And far more right wing it seems as well.
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As I thought. I'm a fence sitter.
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William Wallace seems to be more right wing than I am, but everyone else is on the left wing side of spectrum. This is odd. :lol
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=1.50&soc=-3.38)
I expected myself to be more right wing.
I kind of feel some of the questions had no specific relevancy to any of the parties in question significantly more than another.
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Figured I'd redo this and its practically the same thing.
Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.15
(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-1.00&soc=-0.15)
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I've done the normal political compass a bunch of times too, ended up at slightly the same place last time around which was a few months ago.
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You are a far-right social libertarian.
Right: 8.88, Libertarian: 7.44
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Foreign Policy:
On the left side are pacifists and anti-war activists. On the right side are those who want a strong military that intervenes around the world. You scored: -7.53
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Culture:
Where are you in the culture war? On the liberal side, or the conservative side? This scale may apply more to the US than other countries. You scored: -4.01
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https://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=2.12&soc=1.44 (https://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=2.12&soc=1.44)Not surprised, seems to fit
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Economic Left/Right: -0.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.67
Well, can't say I wasn't expecting that; being an economist and all. Imagine how boring life would be if there were more of us :)
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Left: 6.02, Libertarian: 5.49
Nathan is a left social libertarian. He is also a non-interventionist and culturally liberal.
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Now the other test...
(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.50&soc=-5.64)
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Saw the link in that other thread adn was reminded of this thread. I always meant to do this, but I never got around to it. Finally took the quiz. Interesting stuff.
(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-2.12&soc=-4.92)
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Some of the questions were a bit loaded, weren't clear in what exactly they meant, or asked for the person to take a side when a balanced approach would be preferable. Though I still ended up in the correct quadrant, so there's that.
Edit: Also;
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Left: 4.63, Libertarian: 1.77
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You scored: -7.74
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You scored: -4.88
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Same as everybody else. How unoriginal.
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(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=6.50&soc=-6.21)
Economic Left/Right: 6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.21
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Bahaha. The way I was answering these I was expecting something a little more centrist, but what ever. :lol
(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=7.50&soc=-5.62)
I feel like this one was more my "pragmatic" side showing through, whereas the gotoquiz showed my more extreme beliefs in a "this is how I wish the world was" kind of way.
Oh well, that was fun. And all this thread does is reinforce my belief that there's a liberal bias to this forum, though there are certainly more right libertarians than I first suspected.
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I honestly think this compass is biased. The two people who got Authoritarian scores in this thread are the only ones who I've ever seen score so.
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Have you seen some of the questions though? Only hardcore authoritarians could agree with them, let alone strongly agree. I don't reckon many of the pollies listed in the top half of the chart could really be considered "authoritarian" (although by being the "big cheese" are you authoritarian by default?)
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Far-left weak libertarian on both tests. That's not really what I was expecting, but I realize that describes me pretty accurately. Socially, I'm almost as left as they come, but economically I prefer capitalism (though under some pretty tight regulations).
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Have you seen some of the questions though? Only hardcore authoritarians could agree with them, let alone strongly agree. I don't reckon many of the pollies listed in the top half of the chart could really be considered "authoritarian" (although by being the "big cheese" are you authoritarian by default?)
That's exactly my point, I think the questions are designed to skew it that way, so that anyone but a fascist would disagree with them. There should be more moderate questions like, "I believe government institutions can be relied upon to solve problems most of the time," or "Developed countries require large governments to sustain their size." Something along those lines.
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Second biggest lefty on the board! Whoo 'n' that.
Always thought I was fairly moderate in the grand scheme of things. I guess, on reflection, not quite so much!
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I've taken this one plenty of times and it always turns out pretty much the same:
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These tests are nothing more than propaganda by libertarians to convince everyone that they're really libertarians through convenient framing of questions and the assumption that the opposite of "libertarian" is something which sounds evil ("authoritarian").
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These tests are nothing more than propaganda by libertarians to convince everyone that they're really libertarians through convenient framing of questions and the assumption that the opposite of "libertarian" is something which sounds evil ("authoritarian").
They're not, though. The opposite of libertarian is authoritarian (that's not a word they just made up), and authoritarian is something that not a lot of people are.
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sup
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These tests are nothing more than propaganda by libertarians to convince everyone that they're really libertarians through convenient framing of questions and the assumption that the opposite of "libertarian" is something which sounds evil ("authoritarian").
They're not, though. The opposite of libertarian is authoritarian (that's not a word they just made up), and authoritarian is something that not a lot of people are.
I do agree with him though that the questions are a little skewed.
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Who knew we had a board full of libertarians?
Guess we should just change the name of the forum to RonPaulForums.Org.
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These tests are nothing more than propaganda by libertarians to convince everyone that they're really libertarians through convenient framing of questions and the assumption that the opposite of "libertarian" is something which sounds evil ("authoritarian").
They're not, though. The opposite of libertarian is authoritarian (that's not a word they just made up), and authoritarian is something that not a lot of people are.
I do agree with him though that the questions are a little skewed.
Maybe. It's probably the case that the test was made in a non-socialist country by a non-socialist group of people. However, I also believe the vast majority of Americans do prefer capitalism (in one form or another) to authoritarianism for a number of reasons.
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I think this quiz is more accurate, to be honest.
https://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html (https://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html)
You are a left social libertarian.
Left: 4.57, Libertarian: 4.64
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Did mine on my phone so couldn't grab graphic but i was nearly dead center in the right/top box
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These tests are nothing more than propaganda by libertarians to convince everyone that they're really libertarians through convenient framing of questions and the assumption that the opposite of "libertarian" is something which sounds evil ("authoritarian").
They're not, though. The opposite of libertarian is authoritarian (that's not a word they just made up), and authoritarian is something that not a lot of people are.
I do agree with him though that the questions are a little skewed.
Maybe. It's probably the case that the test was made in a non-socialist country by a non-socialist group of people. However, I also believe the vast majority of Americans do prefer capitalism (in one form or another) to authoritarianism for a number of reasons.
I don't think they're talking about command economics when they say authoritarian vs. libertarian. I was of the impression they were referring to governance style.
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I don't think they're talking about command economics when they say authoritarian vs. libertarian. I was of the impression they were referring to governance style.
As I understand it, the X-axis plots your social politics and the Y-axis plots your economic politics; in other words, the Y-axis is a measure of how much government you want in your economy. Naturally, I could be wrong.
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I don't think they're talking about command economics when they say authoritarian vs. libertarian. I was of the impression they were referring to governance style.
As I understand it, the X-axis plots your social politics and the Y-axis plots your economic politics; in other words, the Y-axis is a measure of how much government you want in your economy. Naturally, I could be wrong.
Well, that's kind of how it's supposed to be. But in anarchism or anarcho-syndicalism there is no state yet labor is in control of the means of production, so it's not a measure of how much government.
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Under anarchy I'm not sure how any one group can be in control of anything. All against all, you know.
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Not sure if serious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism
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Definitely serious. Anarchy is the absence of government, correct? If there is an absence of government, I'm not sure how anyone can declare control over anything, except where they take it.
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Well, you should read this:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/scott-of-the-insurgency-culture-collective-the-anarchist-response-to-crime (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/scott-of-the-insurgency-culture-collective-the-anarchist-response-to-crime)
You're definitely not going to be convinced, but understanding the point of view is important. This is kind of brief.
Anarcho-capitalism is a different beast though, it's more individualistic. Some ancaps arrive at the conclusion that the state has to be abolished because of its monopoly of violence. Some arrive there for pragmatic reasons. It's also called voluntarism because the thought is a Utopian one where everything is voluntary and there's no coercion. Ancap practical theory is based on the thought that it's economically unsustainable for private institutions to be in war and that there are DRO's or private arbiters as a private court system, etc.
It's complicated, I need to read up more on it myself. Probably need to read a few books too, like this one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinery_of_freedom).
To be honest, I'm not convinced myself. I'm bordering between an ancap and a minarchist.. Ethically I'm 100% behind the idea, but I have a hard time letting go of the consequentialist thoughts.
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Before I go ahead and read this, let me just say that it probably goes without saying that "utopia" is a red flag for me. After all, the word really means "no place" in Greek, and not for no reason.
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I am a center-right moderate social libertarian. Pretty interesting quiz. I was middle of the road on a lot of questions
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Another leftie.
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Seems like the fairly common place to be. Became slightly more liberal, and slightly more libertarian, since I last took it.
Really, too many of the questions have answers that are neutral/mixed
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It's just like a certain person's view of morality, and whether certain art should be considered art necessarily has ANY effect on the social policy they would push.
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64
(https://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.00&soc=-7.64)
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Lower region, right down the middle.