Your Political Compass

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
The Political Compass



Anyone run across this site before? It seemed like a fun little exercise, so I took their test. Having two axes to measure political views is much better than an inadequate left/right scale.



Economic Left/Right: -3.75

Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05



These results were a little surprising to me, since I figured my views would lean into the lower right quadrant of their continuum.



So... how does the average AO poster stack up?
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  • Reply 1 of 46
    brbr Posts: 8,395member
    Yeah we've all done that before. We have a bunch of crazy socialists on this board and a couple libertarians...and a goosestepper or two.
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  • Reply 2 of 46
    fellowshipfellowship Posts: 5,038member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BR

    Yeah we've all done that before. We have a bunch of crazy socialists on this board and a couple libertarians...and a goosestepper or two.



    Exactly!



    Fellows
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  • Reply 3 of 46
    aquafireaquafire Posts: 2,758member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BR

    Yeah we've all done that before. We have a bunch of crazy socialists on this board and a couple libertarians...and a goosestepper or two.



    Didn't you come out as a libertarian ? hehe



    Talk about a loaded dice....
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  • Reply 4 of 46
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    +1 economic

    -2.15 social



    ... but some questions were ridiculously open-ended.



    "Should marijuana be legalized?" Uh...yes AND no...not strong agree/disagree or agree/disagree. The same goes for probably half the other questions.
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  • Reply 5 of 46
    dmband0026dmband0026 Posts: 2,345member
    I wasn't a fan of the questions on that test. Not cool. I didn't quite understand all of them, and as Eugene said, too open ended. I know I'm a republican, I didn't quite get all the explanation of my "political compass". I'm too tired.
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  • Reply 6 of 46
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    (3,3) on the grid...



    Yah, some of the questions were sketchy.\







    Time to think happy thoughts and enjoy some coco.
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  • Reply 7 of 46
    shawnjshawnj Posts: 6,656member
    Economic Left/Right: -8.88

    Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.49



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  • Reply 8 of 46
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    Holy crap Shawn! I got (-4.50, -6.21). But -9 and thereabouts... that's nuts!
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  • Reply 9 of 46
    brbr Posts: 8,395member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ShawnJ

    Economic Left/Right: -8.88

    Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.49







    The test is inherently flawed. Socialism and Libertarianism are by definition mutually exclusive.
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  • Reply 10 of 46
    mlnjrmlnjr Posts: 230member
    Economic Left/Right: -6.12

    Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82
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  • Reply 11 of 46
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Some of these questions are retarded. They provide a statement and then ask you to agree or disagree. With the logic of the statement alone, or with it's implications to one of many factors? Bleh.
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  • Reply 12 of 46
    screedscreed Posts: 1,077member
    Economic Left/Right: -3.50

    Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36



    Meh-heh-heh! Me and the Dali Lama are like this! (holds up crossed fingers).



    Screed (INTP )
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  • Reply 13 of 46
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    I'm almost Nelson Mandella
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  • Reply 14 of 46
    animaniacanimaniac Posts: 122member
    Economic Left/Right: -5.38

    Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87



    Almost Ghandi/Mandela
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  • Reply 15 of 46
    fran441fran441 Posts: 3,715member
    Economic Left/Right: -4.38

    Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82
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  • Reply 16 of 46
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by applenut

    I'm almost Nelson Mandella



    Same here. Better than being up there close to Hitler.
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  • Reply 17 of 46
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Outsider

    Same here. Better than being up there close to Hitler.



    I would have predicted i'd be closer to that though
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  • Reply 18 of 46
    alex londonalex london Posts: 613member
    Economic Left/Right -3.38

    Libertarian/ Authoritarian -5.90



    In the sweet spot.
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  • Reply 19 of 46
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Outsider

    Same here. Better than being up there close to Hitler.



    You trying to imply something???
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  • Reply 20 of 46
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes

    You trying to imply something???



    Only that this quiz is retarded, because I don't see myself as a liberal libertarian, but more of a centrist. And putting Hitler up there is basically a slap in the face to anyone that would score more conservatively.
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