I recently decided to look at where I stand politically, using the Political Compass. I’m not surprised by the results. I was scored as being economically left by 3.13 and socially libertarian by 5.18. I say that makes me a moderately left libertarian. I guess it’s because I tend to be libertarian, but I strongly support public education and am not a tax-protestor.
I’m curious where people on my blog roll score. (Hint. Hint.)
Glad to see I’m not the last person on earth to discover this ;-) Tim Lambert over at Deltoid
http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert[…]compass.html
… had a post on it, where he gave a link to someone who constructed a “better” compass, using those eigenvector things to decide what the axes should be.
http://politics.beasts.org
That one may be down, though.
My coordinates were -6.25 (economic) and -7.38 (social). I guess this answers our arguments–I’m more left than you are.
Economic Left/Right: -1.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05
Your blogroll, eh? Well, I’ll guess about two, beacuse I don’t know the rest: Ed Brayton: Left Libertarian PZ Myers: Left Authoritarian
a wee more left and a tad less libertarian; and delighted to discover this blog so close to work! NH
My take on the Political Compass: http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com[…]continua-and. (of course you have to add the html tag in the end)
I line up about with you on my scores for the same index. Have you ever seen www.freeliberal.com? You might enjoy it.
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