I found this quite an interesting quiz - and surprisingly accurate. It places you on a left-right / authoritarian-liberalist graph based on your political view point on social and economic issues. It's quite interesting to see where people fit on the scale. Of coarse it's not necessarily 100% accurate but I thought it was worth sharing... The Political Compass Go to the navigation bar on the left and click take the test. Not only that it's just interesting where some public figures seem to fit (Hitler isn't right wing, for example...very authoritarian but no surprises there and nelson mandela is very liberal, veering towards communism) Apparently I'm very liberal and quite far left for example (quite close to the Dalai Lama it would seem)....I actually didn't think I would be considered so extreme - but it would seem I am :razz:. It's just a fun test to see where you fit on the scale...
I remember someone posting this on the old board ages ago. Wasn't there actually a small argument in that thread over something stupid? Anyway, unsurprisingly, I tend to end up squarely in the left-wing liberal quadrant.
I remember it too. I am in the middle of the "green" qudrant, somewhere very close to the Daili Lama. However, maybe the argument was about the questions being a little bit suggestive, as the ones putting you into the conservative quadrants seem to sound less intelligible - or does that only sound so to me?
... Only slightly more Libertarian than Gandhi... Probably because I come from a land of collective farms, and it wasn't pretty! Something tells me that most Boardanians would end up so close to each other on this chart, we'd end up sitting on each other's heads. :smile: The only comfortable ones being Pixel and possibly Roman. Hi, Pixel and Roman ::waves::
Thank you Mowgli for putting actual words to something I was thinking very hard but couldn't get my poor tired braincells round.
0.88 Right, 1.54 Authoritarian. And yes, there were two fishy questions there. One was the "superior race" one, the other the segregation-related one.
You're welcome, Kat! :smile: :uffs up with pride, then remembers that it's early morning here, meaning a brain refreshed by that first cup of coffee. Deflates slightly:: Roman, my new name for you from now on is "The Iron Fist".
Don't sweat it Mowgli, I don't even drink coffee, so you can feel superior no matter what time of day :wink:
As I don't really like broad generally statements, I disagreed with most of them and ended up socially libertarian, economically slightly left of centre. (economic, -0.75, social, -4.05) But I think this my have more to do with the type of questions asked then my actual political beliefs.
Still a left libertarian. Although it's interesting that the Political Compass people consider most of the world's leaders to be authoritarian.
... Come to think of it, it's hard to imagine a libertarian world leader! "All right everyone - you're free to do what you want, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!" - "Piss off, you're not my boss!" - "Exactly!"
Strangely enough I get very similar results to everyone else (Economic Left/Right: -3.62, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15) making me a libertarian left on top of Ghandi and it seems everyone else, except Roman... Some of the questions are sort of slanted so that you wouldn't want to think of yourself as agreeing with them... i.e. the difference between actual political/religious/etc views versus my ideal views. I know people who'd probably answer the thing and get the same result as me but be massively conservative on any issue if you talked to them about it*. * this is an observation not an effort to start an argument by saying that people aren't being honest...cos I'd be in the same dishonest boat and that would be silly.
*nod* I know what you mean, Spiky. I got around those questions by trying to rephrase them in a manner that wouldn't make them sound racist. That would make *me* dishonest, in a way, but I'd like to think of it as aiming for a more honest result.
