I don't really remember how, but through my surfing I've run across a site that I kinda like... because of the idea behind it. It's a British site, so the spellings are unnatural to me, the site is not all that well designed, and I am not too sure about the validity of the results, but its still worth a look. Go, take the test before you read the rest of this entry.
Alright, what did you get? I was pretty moderate. I thought that was strange, but then I realized that my extreme views on all sides probably evened themselves out.
OK, more seriously, I was in the Authoritarian Left. I scored a -1.50 on the Economic axis and a 2.41 on the Libertarian/Authoritarian axis. I'm not too suprised by the latter of the two, but I did think that I would be slightly to the right on the economic side of things. Especially after I looked through the book choices. Oh well, I guess these tests weight all things evenly, even though most of us do not. Also, it could be that I feel strongly about the few of my more left-leaning economic views, but I am less passionate about the rmany ight-leaning questions that they asked.
On a side note, I think it would be cool to make a personal profile of sorts of what my views on different social and economic issues are. The profile would need to be updatable, of course, because people (I) tend to change my mind on some of these things. Also, I'd like to have a place to include my thoughts, arguments, or reasoning for siding with whatever view I hold.
Posted by David at October 5, 2003 02:50 AMI just realized that I kinda messed up the second sentence. It sounds like I am bashing British sites, but I just wanted to mention that the Britishness affected the spelling... not the design or the validity. Must think of a way to rephrase that for next time.
Posted by: David at October 6, 2003 08:44 PMI took this test quite some time ago (being a polisci major and all, we played with this and talked about it quite a bit), and I was very deep in the Libertarian Left... -5.something on both scales. I think it's a reasonably good measure of my standing on economic and political issues.
Posted by: John at October 7, 2003 07:51 AMI was about to before I read the first question. That was all it took for me to think the test has a fairly heavy bias. That and it's late and I'm tired and sick.
Posted by: Jordan at October 12, 2003 11:28 PMCouldn't resist after all:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.26
so... that makes John the Dalai Lama and me Gerhard Schroder, huh? Hmmm.
Posted by: Jordan at October 12, 2003 11:46 PM