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This will look good right next to the topic socialism.

Anyway, it concerns me that the right and the left make very clear (at least in my mind) actions that move us towards authoritarianism, and they are somehow are blind to the actions on THEIR side, while being very critical of the moves on the other side. It's fascinating.

Anyway, take a look at the test on the webpage. It is fun to do, and may be revealing to yourself.

I was hoping I would be right in the middle, but I wasn't far off.

The Political Compass

A typology of political opinions plotted on 2 dimensions: economic and social.
www.politicalcompass.org www.politicalcompass.org
 
epidural man said:
This will look good right next to the topic socialism.

Anyway, it concerns me that the right and the left make very clear (at least in my mind) actions that move us towards authoritarianism, and they are somehow are blind to the actions on THEIR side, while being very critical of the moves on the other side. It's fascinating.

Anyway, take a look at the test on the webpage. It is fun to do, and may be revealing to yourself.

I was hoping I would be right in the middle, but I wasn't far off.

The Political Compass

A typology of political opinions plotted on 2 dimensions: economic and social.
www.politicalcompass.org www.politicalcompass.org
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Join me at the barricades...



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I think some of the questions are interesting. It says in the instructions not to think about them too much as some of them have bias and vagueness by design.

But I want to talk about it and go over the questions with a friend of mine who was a little different than me surprisingly - and after we discuss each point, then I want to retake the test and see if my outcome changes.

Also, I wish the test would let you put on the graph where you think you are before taking the test.
 
Interesting they put Saudi Arabia and Singapore both in the upper far right. I know Saudia Arabia's economy is opening up, but I think they have quite a ways to go.

Here I am, will come as no surprise:


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It's only 6 pages because it's full of ads
 
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Yeah - does this mean that the actual center is different than what we would assume?
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I’m thinking that is the trend, but not taking this survey as a gold standard of anything.

I have been saying our sample group here is pretty homogeneous compared to society as a whole despite our wildly partisan divide in most discourse. This is bearing out in the survey.
 
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The libertarian tilt doesn't surprise me. I would have thought that my financial answers would have pushed me further right.

Economic Left/Right: -1.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.18

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The questions seemed pretty loaded and didn't have nuance, but fun little test nonetheless. Here's my results. I'm a bit surprised given my hard stance on many politically sensitive issues.
 

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The questions seemed pretty loaded and didn't have nuance, but fun little test nonetheless. Here's my results. I'm a bit surprised given my hard stance on many politically sensitive issues.
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I think if you made a survey like this that was appropriately nuanced you'd find people distributed all over a 3d map.

I don't think it would sell as well as commie v MAGA...
 
I think what these results highlight is how most people are probably much closer than we think - yet when it comes to communication about these things, we get very dogmatic and want to stand our ground, and probably we have a very shallow understanding of what the other person really is trying to say.

We would all be better of if we used more words like “interesting”, or “I see you point, I see it a little different”, or “that way might work also”
 
epidural man said:
I think what these results highlight is how most people are probably much closer than we think - yet when it comes to communication about these things, we get very dogmatic and want to stand our ground, and probably we have a very shallow understanding of what the other person really is trying to say.

We would all be better of if we used more words like “interesting”, or “I see you point, I see it a little different”, or “that way might work also”
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I agree with all three points. I was surprised how close to center some docs were.....but not surprised how far away others were!
 
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