Political Compass III - Late 2011

Started by mondays suck November 28th, 2011 2:23 PM
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It's been seven months since the last time we had this thread, I think that's long enough to make seeing how things have changed since then, or isn't it? Well, at least I have been gaining more and more interest in politics in the last months, so I'm interested to see where I'm standing now.


You probably know the drill, but if you don't: Well, basically this is a test that asks you a bunch of questions and as a result, you get a position in a coordinate system that shows how left/right and authoritarian/libertarian you are. It's distributed like this:
Spoiler:


Bad explanation? Here's a better one, and the test itself as well, of course:

www.politicalcompass.org/test

How accurate is it? Who knows? It can't be too inaccurate, right? It's fun, too.

And these are my political positions of the not even too distant past...

February 2010: ~-3,9 | ~-4
April 2011: -6.00 | -4.46


... and of today:

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05

Apparently I gained authoritarianism

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Here is a link to the original thread in case anybody wants to compare their results from last time :)

OKAY. So here are my results from April 29, 2011:

Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.28


and here are my results from today - November 29, 2011, exactly seven months later:

Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03



I am incredibly pleased with my progress! I've become more left-leaning in both respects, which is something to aspire to :)
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And I am EXACTLY! the same as last time, for some reason. Freaky! I'm not a massive fan of this quiz, but until people can suggest a better one, I guess it's what we're stuck with. I guess it's accurate as well: I see myself as a centrist with libertarian and lefty leanings, and that's precisely what the diagram shows. Yay?

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Here is a link to the original thread in case anybody wants to compare their results from last time :)
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I'm almost identical, except slightly less left. I wonder why that is.


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I knew I wasn't wrong about myself when I told myself I'm basically in the middle. c:

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I'm getting old and drifting back toward the center! :o

Although I didn't answer many questions terribly strongly this time so a few answers increased in intensity would probably have shifted me further in one direction.

Economic Left/Right: -3.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74



My post in the last thread: http://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=6612784&postcount=5
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Esper

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So this time around there were a lot of answers where I wanted to put my answer somewhere between "strongly" and "somewhat" but went with "strongly" in most cases if I didn't have any serious caveats. I ended up with:

Economic Left/Right: -9.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.08



I win!

My previous scores were:

Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41

I chalk up the difference to the simplicity of the test. I don't think my views have changed much.

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I didn't post my results last time I took it, I guess. But, I remember being around -3 vertically and -2 horizontally. So slightly more Libertarian and left. Current score is:

Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03
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Nice to see this pop up again.

Here is mine from April of this year.

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.67

And now for November 2011...

Economic Left/Right: -4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.33

I think my compass hasn't changed at all! It's pretty much at the same spot, except I gained over half a point towards the Social Libertarian area while still being a dirty left-winger!
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Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.18


A couple of conservative views keep me from going deeper into libertarian territory, so I think that the spot on the graph accurately represents me.