The ATP&N Political Compass Survey

[RyanM]

Inspired, or rather driven, by the other poll thread. Except I want a bit more accurate results. Rather than you all attempting to figure out where you lie on the linear and boring left/right scale, let's find out where your political philosophies reside on the two axes of the Political Compass.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Go there, take the test, and submit your results to the poll. This will far more accurately gauge where the sum whole of P&N falls on the graph of politcal ideologies.

Have fun, and of course, be honest. It's no fun if the results are skewed.

Also, follow up with your score in a post, if you want to. It'll be interesting to know where some of our compatriots lie.

 

[RyanM]

For fun, here's my score.

Economic Left/Right: 3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18

 

[daveshel]

Mach Better

Economic -3.88
Social -3.33

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: daveshel
Mach Better

What were your numbers?

 

[crazycarl]

I found it interesting that their grid had John Edwards as the most conservative democrat in the primaries!

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: crazycarl
I found it interesting that their grid had John Edwards as the most conservative democrat in the primaries!

Yeah, I found that interesting as well. There's no telling how accurate that truly is though, as their methodology could be a bit open to interpretation. Even if the margin of error is 20% though, it's fairly telling. Just goes to show you how much the Republicans and Democrats really are, for the most part.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Economic - -3.00

Social - -4.36

 

[conjur]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=52&threadid=1318753&highlight_key=y&keyword1=politicalcompass

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=52&threadid=1288909&highlight_key=y&keyword1=politicalcompass

 

[Orsorum]

Economic Left/Right: 3.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62

 

[Train]

Economic Left/Right: 0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.56

wow, I'm more center than I thought, a half point or less on both scales.

 

[RyanM]

Conjur - But MINE has a survey.

 

[naddicott]

Will be interesting to see if there's been much change since the same poll/survey in May.

 

[Forsythe]

Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.85
Left/Libertarian

 

[Vic]

Economic Left/Right: 3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97

Nothing new. I'm still moderate Libertarian Right.

 

[glenn1]

Your political compass:

Economic Left/Right: 5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.46

 

[RyanM]

This is some interesting results. Are people who would normally vote republican not taking the test or something? There's almost no one representing the right end of the Economic scale.

 

[DukeFan21]

Economic Left/Right: -0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.77

Authoritarian Left

 

[Kerouactivist]

Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.26


I'm hangin out with the Dalai Lama

Some of those questions on the first page aren't very good ones for this test though..

If I took it again I would probably get different scores every time I took it.

 

[GrGr]

According to this test I belong squarely in the corner with Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Dalai Lama :Q I can live with that.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

 

[RyanM]

I've taken the test about 5 times in the past year, about 2 or 3 months apart usually. Always yielded results within a half a point.

 

[cricky]

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26

I have trouble with the wording on a few questions every time I take this test... Still, me and Ghandi and The Dalai Lama are chillin' out down here...

 

[UglyCasanova]

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92

Wow, I'm down there with Al Sharpton, that's not good.

 

[AndrewR]

Economic Left/Right: 3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.95

About what I figured.

 

[SwissArmyBilly]

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36


I am very comfortable hanging out with Mandela.

Billy

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Economic Left/Right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79