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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Dohiyi Mir Political Compass

Finally updated the compass with the help of some graphing software:



I've also posted a larger version.  Legend and data below--if you'd like to add yours, just take the quiz and post your results in comments!

Poster: Left/Right, Lib/Auth
AVG: -5.57, 5.79
NTodd: -4.88, -7.85

  1. Diane: -7.75, -7.33
  2. Jeff: -6.38, -7.08
  3. Steve Bates: -7.5, -8.15
  4. tinheart: -3.88, -4.31
  5. Stradiotto: -8.8, -7.95
  6. Dom:-8.62, -5.64
  7. ABH: -5.12, -5.13
  8. vachon: -6.75, -6.36
  9. Bill Simmon: -5.75, -8.46
  10. MercuryX23: -5.88, -5.33
  11. amy: -7, -7.03
  12. amy's dad (proxy): -2, 1.13
  13. Natalie Davis: -7.25, -7.44
  14. Mark H: -7, -4.51
  15. lea-p:-8.5, -6.9
  16. Stefanie: -4.5, -4.05
  17. Lilith: -5.88, -7.13
  18. Tom: -6.12, -6
  19. Medley: -5.25, -5.95
  20. John (Diane's GOP husband): -5.88, -1.9
  21. snip: -6.91, -7.62
  22. Eli: -5.5, -6.36
  23. Alex C: -5.13, -6.67
  24. Hubris: -0.88, -2.82
  25. NTodd's Pa: -5, -5.95
  26. fiat lux: -4.75, -2.51
  27. selise: -8, -8.51
  28. shayera: -5.5, -8.56
  29. Linkmeister: -3.5, -5.23
  30. Matt F: -5, -6.51
  31. Michael: -6.13, -5.9
  32. watertiger: -8, -7.44
  33. rugo: -7.13, -6.74
  34. ellroon: -5.25, -5.49
  35. Rook: -8.25, -5.79
  36. Green: -8.38, -6.67
  37. Robin: -4.63, -7.03
  38. NTodd's Pa's wife: -5, -4.15
  39. Hardy Machia: -0.13, -7.64
  40. Charlie: 4.38, 2.1
  41. Kav: -5.38, -3.18
  42. Nancy in Detroit: -0.88, -5.03
  43. Squelch: -5.25, -5.13
  44. Anonymous: -9.88, -8.36

Most Left = -9.88, Anonymous
Most Right = 4.38, Charlie

Most Libertarian: -8.46, Bill
Most Authoritarian: 2.1, Charlie

And there ya have it, folks.

ntodd

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-6.25, -8.31

Posted by: rcauthen | Dec 28, 2005 1:45:21 PM

Economic Left/Right: -7.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

Posted by: Elayne Riggs | Dec 28, 2005 1:47:06 PM

hmm, looks like I'm going more libertarian in my old age since I last took that test (when did you first put that up? two years ago? three?). Well, things ARE getting more dire in the real world. Ugh.

Now:
Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.15

Then:
Economic Left/Right: -8.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.9

Posted by: lea-p | Dec 28, 2005 2:42:24 PM

Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67

Please don't tell Dick Cheney.

Posted by: bbbustard | Dec 28, 2005 2:51:52 PM

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.13

Posted by: Redcane | Dec 28, 2005 2:52:16 PM

HA! I'm averagely average!

I hate these tests, I argue with the questions all the way through. I know I'd be a terrible witness in court..."Yes or No? Me: Well... it depends"

Posted by: ellroon | Dec 28, 2005 3:34:12 PM

Looks like I'm pretty average in comparison to the crowd hereabouts. And why am I not surprised to see Chuckles alone out in right field?

Posted by: Michael | Dec 28, 2005 5:09:21 PM

Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

Posted by: eva | Dec 28, 2005 5:46:45 PM

-6
-5.74

Posted by: marianthelibrarian | Dec 28, 2005 5:46:55 PM

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56

A bit more Libertarian than I would have thought

Posted by: scout prime | Dec 28, 2005 6:25:43 PM

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62

Pretty mushy liberal.

Although, if I retook the test tomorrow I'd probably get a different result.

Posted by: Carpbasman | Dec 28, 2005 6:34:54 PM

Economic Left/Right: -5.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

Posted by: jdw | Dec 28, 2005 7:14:44 PM

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.87

Posted by: wet pants | Dec 28, 2005 7:22:33 PM

Economic Left/Right: -4
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.23

Posted by: bkny | Dec 28, 2005 7:34:41 PM

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

Hmm, I was 9% Republican on the "how Republican are you?" quiz.
I'm obviously not watching enough South Park these days.

Posted by: Jay C. | Dec 28, 2005 8:18:28 PM

Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.59

Posted by: Knightrain | Dec 28, 2005 9:20:59 PM

I fit right in with the crowd at

Economic Left/Right -7.13
Social Libertarian/Auth -7.44

Posted by: Ferdzy | Dec 28, 2005 9:52:28 PM

Economic Left/Right: -4.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.46

Somewhere near Ghandi.
This is worrisome; he's dead.

Posted by: shawk | Dec 28, 2005 10:59:29 PM

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

HO HO HO Chi Minh the NLF is gonna win.....

What?

Never mind.

Posted by: pvt pyle | Dec 28, 2005 11:03:38 PM

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28

Yep, strongly leftist and anarchistic--take that, Dalai Lama and Gandhi!

Posted by: Uncle Smokes | Dec 28, 2005 11:16:49 PM

Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/authoritian: -9.44

I didn't expect the anti-authoritarian sentiments to come out quite this strongly.

Posted by: geoduck2 | Dec 29, 2005 2:36:44 AM

Economic Left/Right: -6.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.21

Posted by: mg | Dec 29, 2005 10:24:51 AM

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.49

then I took it again when I forgot my original answers and got

Economic Left/Right: -4.21
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

so let's put a plus/minus 0.5 on it.

Posted by: Steppy | Dec 29, 2005 10:46:29 AM

-8.8,-9.0

Posted by: The Heretik | Dec 30, 2005 12:41:10 AM

-4 and -6.31

Posted by: flory | Dec 30, 2005 1:48:57 AM

Whoa, looks like I have some work to do! Now that I've got this software to do the graphing, it should be quick. I'll post an update sometime this weekend.

Posted by: NTodd | Dec 30, 2005 12:01:03 PM

Economic Left/Right: -6.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.74

Man, if I had been taking this quiz annually over the past fifteen years, the graph as a function of time would look really interesting...(I'm not sure how much S L/A would change, but E L/R, definitely.)

Posted by: mds | Dec 30, 2005 1:12:04 PM

Proud to be out alone in right field - I'm here, for you to jeer, get over it.

Posted by: Charlie | Dec 30, 2005 1:15:15 PM

Aw, Charlie, we still love you. Even if nothing else, there's the Parable of the Lost Sheep, you know. :-)

Posted by: mds | Dec 30, 2005 1:47:42 PM

I know - unfortunately for you, I am one of the 99 sheep who actually listen to His voice - just be glad I didn't post something like "Think Pink (alternatively, Just Think)" although my favorite is "Two Pairs Beats a Straight"

Posted by: Charlie | Dec 30, 2005 2:01:08 PM

Who let the troll back in?

Posted by: Michael | Dec 30, 2005 2:18:37 PM

Since I am the one posting on topic and responding to others directly, I guess YOU did, Michael.

Posted by: Charlie | Dec 30, 2005 2:24:09 PM

My New Years resolution is to not respond to trolls though, so back on topic - the left wing blogs have indeed had a moderating effect on me - I take the quiz today and get a score of 4.13 Right and only 1.90 Authoritarian ; )

I do recall the same problem I had with that last question too - I "disagree" that it's fine for society to be open about sex, but "strongly agree" regardless these days it's going too far - so I split the baby and said just plain "agree".

Posted by: Charlie | Dec 30, 2005 3:00:13 PM

Who let the troll back in?

Huh! Huh! Huh! Who let the troll in? Etc.

unfortunately for you, I am one of the 99 sheep who actually listen to His voice

Hang on: Economic Left/Right of 4.38? Sounds more like "young ruler" territory, or someone who doesn't approve of Jubilee years. 4.13 is just fine, though. :-)

Meanwhile, as Charlie and Steppy point out, there seem to be some definite error bars on these scores. Do we want to be rigorous, or poised for a comeback?

Posted by: mds | Dec 30, 2005 3:08:19 PM

Young ruler?! Ouch - since I don't believe Jesus was a socialist, I always preferred the lawyer who at least asked and answered correctly, the advantage being I know the end of His Story and who my neighbors are.

Posted by: Charlie | Dec 30, 2005 3:19:06 PM

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.87

Who knew?

Posted by: Toby Petzold | Dec 31, 2005 2:05:13 AM

Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

Posted by: Philo | Jan 9, 2006 7:03:49 PM

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.69

Posted by: Charlotte Smith (nee Beavers) | Jan 9, 2006 7:34:16 PM

economic: -6.75
social: -8.36

have to admit, this comes pretty close to what i would have guessed. many questions are lost in "it depends" land.

Posted by: platypus | Jan 9, 2006 10:04:28 PM

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54

Posted by: Rook | Jan 10, 2006 10:46:57 AM

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54

Posted by: skywater | Jan 10, 2006 10:52:30 AM

Economic Left/Right: -6.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41

Posted by: medeanj | Jan 10, 2006 2:52:21 PM


Economic Left/Right: -9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.13


cheers!

--mf

Posted by: Monkeyfister | Jan 10, 2006 3:04:06 PM

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

I actually found myself getting incensed at some of the statements in the poll. These times have made me touchy!

Posted by: Therem | Jan 11, 2006 3:54:36 PM

Economic Left/Right: -9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62

Time to join the local anarchist collective, I guess.

Posted by: freya | Jan 12, 2006 11:53:14 AM

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.56

This was the hardest personality test I have ever taken since I've been online. Ugh, headache...

Posted by: erikku | Jul 13, 2006 3:01:19 PM

have to admit, this comes pretty close to what i would have guessed. many questions are lost in "it depends" land.

Posted by: blindb | Sep 4, 2006 10:18:57 AM

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

Posted by: trifecta | Mar 11, 2007 2:20:53 PM

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26

Whoo-hoo!
.

Posted by: Jeffraham Prestonian | Mar 11, 2007 2:31:46 PM

I find I'm trending more to "strongly agree/strongly disagree" answers rather than the sort of wishy washy "well, yea, kinda sorta" answers I used to give on this test. Thus creeping further down and leftward on the scale...

ELR: -8.25
SL/A: -6.92

Prob'ly make my way down to the bottom corner and fall clean off the scale before the Bush administration is over with. :)

Posted by: Xan | Mar 11, 2007 2:54:12 PM

First in the quadrant I believe.

Economic Left/Right: 1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38

Posted by: Kris | May 2, 2007 4:13:17 PM

-7.00 and -7.08

Posted by: minusp | Feb 6, 2009 11:46:56 AM

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