Ok, I updated the table and I'm close to Xenoc. It may be that the poll is biased to the left and the fact that there is no neutral answer is really a bad thing (I had not expected that I would answer neutral because I started off with strongly ..., which is also where I ended up answering about science/religion and sex). However, I did find myself wanting a neutral/don't care answer at some point.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart.php?showform=&Falcrack=-0.8%2C0.3&Toot=-2.9%2C-3.1&Xenoc=-8.3%2C-6.5&Spuddyt=-2.6%2C-3.3&Pkc=-0.9%2C-3.5&Wolfinator=-6.2%2C-3.3&Mazrix=-5.1%2C-6.7&Bulletmagnet=-8.0%2C-3.6&Jackdaniels=-4.4%2C-3.5&Plasma+Wolf=-7.4%2C-5.5&Deadmg=-4.9%2C-5.2&Admiralzeech=-3.8%2C-4.8&Splat%2C+Moose%2C+Z32=-4.6%2C-4.9

It's really a clusterfuck of us in the lower left corner. Even though the poll may be biased it kind of tells about the general political views on this forum.

Aslo, Moose: you said that you're in the same corner as Mugabe but Mugabe is in the upper left rather than the lower left. We're all in the same part as Ghandi and Nelson Mandela.

I think a lot of the subjects that it asks about are too complex to be assigned to a simple agree or disagree basis. On quite a few of the questions, especially in the economics section I was neutral on, so I simply chose the least extreme answer to the question possible.

There are a lot of loaded questiosn that are hard to answer one way simply because of how the question is worded, as well as a lot of questions that were blatantly biased or indicate someone doesn't really understand the ideology at certain ends of the spectrum.

For example, I don't really think housewives are actually a pillar of conservative democracy, that's just mysoginistic fundamentalism. Also christianity isn't a core tennent of conservativism, regardless of what US media would have you believe.

Yup, I am seeing a pattern. What I wonder is if this is based on American values of Left and Right wing.

No love?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdch ... wsoc=-3.18

Looking further...



http://www.pacenewsonline.com/

Pace News is newspaper out of the LA area. Very odd website, however.

Some Political Compass talk here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3APolitical_compass

Someone reverse engineered the scoring system: http://appliedpc.crappycomic.com/scoring.php

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printab ... &soc=-5.54

But I have to object that some of the questions in this test were rather... silly. And with some of them, I really have no idea what I'm supposed to think.

Yep, a definite trend. And I added my name to the Crowd chart.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printab ... &soc=-4.31

Thanks for sharing, this was pretty cool

I always knew I was an outlier! Who knew that having an incredibly centrist viewpoint would qualify me as one though...

You guys are all on the wrong side of the vertical line! I was missing that "Neutral" answer, too...

I will be joining this fine liberal party! I'll bring the weed!



I hear everyone saying this chart is based on american politics, but the example on american presidential candidates DOES put everyone on the extreme right, which is just about right, isnt it? In america, obama is considered kind of a centrist while we europeans consider him to still be a rightist, and european centrists are considered lefties in the USA...

I mean, I dont know about the exact questions they give you and the position that results in, but the chart with influential people looks just about what I was shown last year in uni...

Also, on Mugabe: This test is about simple political points of view. That doesnt have anything to do with practical implementation, a.k.a. his terrible decisions that completely destroyed Zimbabwe's economy...

That actually really depends on who you ask. A lot of people (the ones who watch Fox News) still see him as that "black commie muslim nazi socialist"

It's not based on US politics.

Or at the very least, if it is; it is designed so that it does not drift with the increasing right-wing extremism in the US.

Which further proves my point, I guess..

We Europeans just have to accept that Americans arent completely wrong when they call us communist liberal scumbags..

No, but it is extremely left-biased, regardless. The more I think about it now the more ridiculous it is, it's literally nigh impossible to score anything on the right half of the spectrum with this poll unless you're either a bigot or an ertwyu.

Ertwyu is literally hitler.

I feel the same, though I'm not quite sure if this is a problem of the test or if this is simply because there are indeed so many bigots walking the face of the earth.

The point I was trying to make is that that depends entirely on your point of view. I honestly think it is a reasonably fair assessment that we all just ARE liberal lefties.

We are liberal because we have a low-to-non-existing populationof theocrats on this forum (my definition of theocrats being people who want to make religious conviction into state policy), and its common knowledge that the internet generation is very open minded about civil liberties.

As for all being lefties... I cant say anything specific about the people on this forum, but the popularity of economic regulations as opposed to total free market has risen after outrages about self-enrichment by bankers and "greedy corporations". To be honest, I think a lot more people in america are socialist when you would ask them these questions, but for some reason they are stupid enough to keep voting against their economic interests.. And I'm pretty sure the reason the politicians themselves are absolutely opposed to most kinds of regulation is because of the huge lobbying culture.

In Europe, almost everyone has somewhat leftist opinions, as in that government regulation of certain parts of the economy is absolutely nescessary, the question is just to what degree. Also, companies dont get to support politicians that would vote in their favor by spending huge amounts of money on their election campaign. Coincedence? I think not.

Most of the economic questions pit consumer rights against corperate rights as though they're mutually exclusive. I'm fiscally conservative but scored otherwise on that test because the options are so biased that you need to explicitely disregard the right of the populace to answer conservatively.

Most of the questions which are affirmatively leftist in the poll were moderate (eg. agreeing to that would make you a centrist), while most of the affirmatively rightist were extreme (agreeing would make you a fascist). The poll was obviously made by whatever newspaper as an attempt to make people think that bottom left was the 'norm' for american society and their politics are polar opposite from the will of the populace. In other words i'm saying this poll is bullshit political rhetoric.

Hitler's brother lived a few miles away from me, so you might be on to something!

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90

I'm like the Dali Lama