Found it: Political Compass

This was a "test" that a few of us found around the 2000 election that I found to be particularly insightful as it goes beyond the normal "left – right" designations. Have fun!

Political Compass

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This entry was written by Jeremy Beker, posted on February 28, 2003 at 5:08 pm, filed under General. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

17 Comments

  1. Gris
    Posted February 28, 2003 at 7:50 pm | Permalink

    Wow. I’m such a radical.

    I’m a leftist libertarian! -6.88 Econ, -6.0 Social

  2. Jeremy
    Posted March 1, 2003 at 2:00 am | Permalink

    gah, you would think I would have posted what I got.

    I just took it again, and I came in at 0.38 econ and -5.69 social.

    Having taken this multiple times, I am always pretty centrist on the econ front (I have seen myself lean left and right depending on when I take it) and always very libertarian on the social front (I’m actually suprised I scored so close to 0 this time). It might be interesting to see how my values shift between midday and midnight (it being 2am at the moment).

  3. Jeff
    Posted March 1, 2003 at 10:51 am | Permalink

    I was actually surprised at my score since I always thought I was something of the moderate around here. Though taking a look at Gris and Jeremy’s scores that might still be the case. Leftist Libertarian, -4.50 econ, -4.77 social.

  4. Elizabeth
    Posted March 1, 2003 at 12:09 pm | Permalink

    Economic Left/Right: -2.38
    Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.79

    So left libertarian is me too.

  5. mithy
    Posted March 4, 2003 at 1:52 pm | Permalink

    -.250, -3.18.

    Leftist Libertarian. Though, I think that if I retook it, I’d end up a little more Libertarian. Like most of these quizzes, there are always questions that could go either way, and some of my Agree or Disagrees could easily be a Strongly. Depends on my mood…

  6. Matt, more liberal than Gandhi
    Posted March 4, 2003 at 2:09 pm | Permalink

    And, the big surprise, I’m not the most-left of those returning results.

    Economic Left/Right: -5.88
    Authoritarian/Libertarian: -5.49

    I don’t how how much of that is waffling over softly worded questions and going with Agree/Disagree more than Strongly Agree/Strongly Disagree.

    But enough of these litte measley surveys, who wants to take the NPAT?

  7. Matt
    Posted March 4, 2003 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

    And I’d like to make a point of distancing myself from the ‘Libertarian’ moniker, as Libertarians tend to be people who think roads and sewers are things that just, y’know, happen and turn themselves blue by drinking ionized silver.

  8. KT
    Posted March 4, 2003 at 2:22 pm | Permalink

    Economic Left/Right: -5.00
    Authoritarian/Libertarian: -7.59

    On this scale, though, I would have to say that I’m still an economic “don’t always understand it well enough to have an opinion.”

  9. Liz
    Posted March 4, 2003 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

    Economic: -5.25
    Libertarian: -4.97

  10. Gris
    Posted March 5, 2003 at 12:18 am | Permalink

    /me thinks Mattchew may perhaps have overlooked someone a wee bit, and makes room to her right for him.

  11. Gris
    Posted March 5, 2003 at 12:20 am | Permalink

    Um… ::rubs her eyes and rereads, and decides to shuffle off to bed in shame::

  12. Matt
    Posted March 5, 2003 at 8:34 am | Permalink

    You think I’d overlook you, Karen? Indeed…. ;-)

  13. Elizabeth
    Posted March 5, 2003 at 8:53 am | Permalink

    Just for curiousity, I took it again this morning…
    Economic Left/Right: -2.62
    Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.21
    Pretty close to my first score, so at least I’m consistent…

  14. Gris
    Posted March 6, 2003 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

    Well, I was awfully close…

    Economic Left/Right: -6.62
    Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.26

    I guess this is what comes of being a librarian. :D

  15. Gutt
    Posted April 15, 2003 at 11:58 am | Permalink

    I like the compass. It is good.

  16. mithy
    Posted November 21, 2003 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

    Aren’t we supposed to get more conservative as we get older?

    Economic Left/Right: -5.50
    Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10

    Wow…

  17. Jeremy
    Posted November 21, 2003 at 6:39 pm | Permalink

    I’ve moved again….

    Economic Left/Right: -1.75
    Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79