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Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.31

What's interesting is that on the libertarian/authoritarian scale, Lali and I (I think, skimming through everyone's scores) have the closest numbers to each other. I wonder whether we overlapped on a bunch of issues (that maybe we haven't gotten around to discussing on this board yet :D) or had different areas where we are less unabashedly to the left than our comrades V and T. :D
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Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

-16.45. Teremia, you is pwned.
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Post by Lalaith »

I think Griffy is closer (? too lazy to scroll back and double check), but we are close to each other. :) It does make me wonder where we overlapped.
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Prim: :bow:
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Post by Voronwë the Faithful »

Primula Baggins wrote:Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

-16.45. Teremia, you is pwned.
Yeah, but I'm still the pinko-est.

Not surprising for someone who advocates for the abolishment of money!
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Dad will be so proud. :D
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Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.31

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Post by Voronwë the Faithful »

I have been defeated! :x

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I wonder what I answered that put me the most authoritarian so far? :shock:
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Economic Left/Right: -3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.13

My crowd graph:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/charts/ ... v%20style=

Looks like I'm on the same wavelength as Nelson Mandela, Alexis Tsipras, the Dalai Lama, Jill Stern, Stewart Alexander, and Ghandi.

I'm far, far away from Mitt Romney, who is not so far away from Barack Obama (whose re-election I applaud), Binny Netanyahu, and Julia Gillard (for whom I voted!)

I guess it could be worse? :scratch: Gosh, I'm quite a pinko!
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Economic Left/Right: 0.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77

I was surprised by that so I took it again.

Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.26

Meh. I guess it is somewhat accurate.

I rarely chose "strongly" as an option. I thought some of the questions made flawed assumptions.

I went back and took it a third time, but this time (while the answers were the same) I answered "strongly" in a few instances.

Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.46

I think "strongly" is weighted too heavily.
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I'm in with the rest of you pinko Gandhi types.

Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38

I'm surprised the two presidential candidates were so close: Obama (7.5, 6) and Romney (8.5, 7.5), and so far from me.

It would be interesting to see where the"average citizen" of various countries lies. Or perhaps a scatter diagram showing where the majority of voters lie.
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Post by Voronwë the Faithful »

I seriously doubt that President Obama and Mr. Romney would actually be that close if they actually took the test.
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I was Economic left/right - 5.88
Social libertarian/authoritarian -5.74

In general Gandhi/Dalai Lama territory, which is fine with me.
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I would be interested in dissecting the questions on that survey for discussion.
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I stopped at second. They need to define "supporting your country" for it to have any meaning. Presumably, they mean "your government", which is certainly not the only way to support a democratic country when you disagree with its course.
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Post by Túrin Turambar »

Like Voronwë, I don't put too much store into these sorts of things. This test, in particular, obviously gives away the author's own ideological leanings - globalisation should serve the interests of people rather than multi-national companies? Obviously anyone who disagreed with that would not see it as an either-or. And Barack Obama is in the authoritarian right? Goes to show why it is so difficult to get out of the libertarian left quadrant (and the alternative is 'authoritarian', really?). In my experience, differences in ideological viewpoint come out not through the answers people give, but the questions that they ask in the first place.
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I did get the sense that the scaling, given the questions, should not be linear. The questions were designed in such a way as to lump most of the leaders of modern governments over in the upper right, thus sending the message that there's not much distance between them. Well, there's not much distance between here and the nearest star, either, if you use the whole galaxy as your context.
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Post by Maria »

Yay, Holby's more authoritarian than I am!
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Has anyone managed to make it onto the right half at all, never mind upper right?
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