St. Catherine Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Very Cool. Here is where I stand..... Economic Left/Right: -4.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.31 I can't wait for my husband to get home to see where he is at on the chart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Economic Left/Right: 3.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.59 :nanny: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 I took this a while back (MG, this is the thing I told you about); here's what I scored: Economic Left/Right: -2.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.69 Which makes me a hippie -- I have authority issues. However, I should point out that my main issues are with abuse of authority, not with the concept of authority. For the most part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Al is more conservative than I am! I'm now useless, goodbye, everyone... :hide: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty_boy Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Did anyone pay attention to the way that the questions were worded? I got about two pages into the test and decided it was too rediculous to finish. The questions are made to fit a utopian society and tries to direct the test taker to answer a certain way. Who is conducting this test? Who funds it? Who wrote it? What is the purpose for the test results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickey's_Girl Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 LOL, Sojourner--we're practically twins! I guess you can call me a Commie now... Economic Left/Right: -2.62 (hey Soj, I'm more left than you!! I'm like the Pope!) Social Auth/Lib: -1.23 Actually, I'm nearly balanced between Authoritarian and Libertarian, which is what I expected. I'm more left than I thought I was...always think of myself as a sort of right-winger. But I imagine that social issues (abortion, gay marriage) play into that a lot. Pretty much, I trust neither government nor the free market to totally right the world's wrongs. Human nature is pretty sticky, and only God can regenerate it. We have to do the very best we can (which we rarely do), and trust him for the rest. There weren't many famous people in my quadrant. Of all people, Dennis Kucinich! I thought he was a total moron! :angry: Gandhi :wub: was the only world leader. I guess people like me don't become world leaders. They should do a quadrant for writers. I thought the reading list was pretty crazy, though. MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Matty_boy, read the FAQ section on the site. Here's what they say: [quote]Most of them are slanted ! Some right-wingers accuse us of a leftward slant. Some left-wingers accuse us of a rightward slant. But it's important to realise that this isn't a survey, and these aren't questions. They're propositions - an altogether different proposition. To question the logic of individual ones that irritate you is to miss the point. Some propositions are extreme, and some are more moderate. That's how we can show you whether you lean towards extremism or moderation on the Compass. Some of the propositions are intentionally vague. Their purpose is to trigger buzzwords in the mind of the user, measuring feelings and prejudices rather than detailed opinions on policy. Incidentally, our test is not another internet personality classification tool. The essence of our site is the model for political analysis. The test is simply a demonstration of it. [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Matty Boy is correct. A lot of the questions were loaded...they assumed something was true or good and then asked what you thought about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Economic Left/Right: -2.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.05 I'm close to Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 [quote]Gandhi was the only world leader. I guess people like me don't become world leaders.[/quote] Gandhi is overrated. He treated his wife like dirt, lived in a stately home for quite a while, while professing to be for all the outcastes, he had affairs, and he got the British to leave India, which took away the only protection that was keeping the Muslims and the Hindus from slaughtering each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 [quote name='Mickey's_Girl' date='Jun 4 2004, 03:43 PM'] LOL, Sojourner--we're practically twins! I guess you can call me a Commie now... Economic Left/Right: -2.62 (hey Soj, I'm more left than you!! I'm like the Pope!) Social Auth/Lib: -1.23 Actually, I'm nearly balanced between Authoritarian and Libertarian, which is what I expected. I'm more left than I thought I was...always think of myself as a sort of right-winger. But I imagine that social issues (abortion, gay marriage) play into that a lot. Pretty much, I trust neither government nor the free market to totally right the world's wrongs. Human nature is pretty sticky, and only God can regenerate it. We have to do the very best we can (which we rarely do), and trust him for the rest. There weren't many famous people in my quadrant. Of all people, Dennis Kucinich! I thought he was a total moron! :angry: Gandhi :wub: was the only world leader. I guess people like me don't become world leaders. They should do a quadrant for writers. I thought the reading list was pretty crazy, though. MG [/quote] We're not Commies!!! They'd be a lot more authoritarian than we are (Stalin, for example. Although the Pope was also in that Quadrant, although not that extreme). We are hippies. And cute ones at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickey's_Girl Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 [quote]We're not Commies!!! They'd be a lot more authoritarian than we are (Stalin, for example. Although the Pope was also in that Quadrant, although not that extreme). We are hippies. And cute ones at that. [/quote] LOL! We ARE cute!!! Of course, I would hope the Pope would be sort of authoritarian. Being the Pope and all. I always think of hippies as people who see human nature as basically good...I don't, though. I think of it as good and bad, tending toward bad if unchecked. Don't know if I'd make a very good hippie. My dad was one back in the day, though. MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Raphael, you got sources for that? I never heard that about Ghandi. Not that i wanna go defacing his charecter or nothing, especially since now he's dead and all and can't fight back, but the truth should be known i guess. My friend is all about Ghandi, i'd be interested in showing her some of those facts. very interesting. hahahaha i'm conservative. although i really don't think those questions serve a real purpose. Those hypothetical realities pale in comparison to true reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Hmm, never got that vibe about the human nature thing. If that's the defining bit, then I'm not a hippie. I've always seen it as more a measure of someone's social justice sensitivities. I mean, I care about people in poverty, and I care about equal justice, and I care about environmental stewardship. But, I have a mistrust of authority. I promise I'm working on it -- I wanna be like JP2!! :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 I'll work on getting the sources. I learn my political history from my older brother, who is extremely well read (his college professor, who goes on CNN from time to time, said that he was smarter than any historian he'd ever met ), so he has the sources. He's not at home at the moment, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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