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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: _JS on March 12, 2007, 01:10:41 PM
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I know, these tests are very limited, but they still offer a good overview of where one stands and how one's views have changed over the years. Here are a few online political tests to see where you stand. Report your results!
1. Political Compass (http://www.politicalcompass.org/) This is the standard of online political marking.
2. Political Objectives (http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=16378307404171364367)
3. World's Smallest Political Quiz (http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html)
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23
British Quiz - I didn't realise how dependent this was on knowing British politics - apologies!
Crime and punishment, internationalism
Your position on this axis is -4.7
You are likely to be fairly internationalist and rehabilitationist.
Economics, etc
Your position on this axis is -2.5
You are likely to be fairly socialist and anti-war.
Smallest Quiz
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 100%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 30%.
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77
(Interesting to note that I fall somewhere between Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama on the international chart. LOL.)
British Quiz - I'm not convinced of the accuracy of this, as I am not that knowledgeable about British politics.
Crime and punishment, internationalism
Your position on this axis is -4.9
You are likely to be fairly internationalist and rehabilitationist.
Economics, etc
Your position on this axis is 0.1
You are likely to be centrist.
Smallest Quiz
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 80%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 20%.
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Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92
British Quiz - skipped
Smallest Quiz
Left liberal
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 20%.
That was fun.
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Political Compass
Economic Left-Right -5/63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -4.15
Smallest Quiz
Personal 100%
Economic 40%
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I'm replacing the middle test with this one: Political Objectives Test (http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=16378307404171364367) which seems to be much more ideological than most.
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Political Objectives Test
Social-Liberal
You scored 78 Equality, 78 Liberty, and 35 Stability!
Your commitment to both liberty and equality makes you a blend of the Liberal and the Socialist.
World's Smallest Political Quiz:
Left Liberal
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 80%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 10%.
The Political Compass test is too long to do now. I've taken it before and I remember that I and Ark ended up in almost the same spot...far left quadrant.
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Political Compass - Economic Left/Right: 4.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41 Which puts me in the lower right quadrant. Apparently not as far economically right Milton Friedman but more libertarian. Which seems odd to me.
Political Objectives - Liberal with a score of 50 Equality, 85 Liberty, and 28 Stability. I'm not entirely sure what those scores mean. But I notice that the categories are intended to be international in nature, and since the description that was included seems fairly accurate in describing my position on liberty, I'm okay with scoring as a liberal.
World's Smallest Political Quiz - My Personal issues Score is 100%. My Economic issues Score is 100%. Which places me directly at the top of the graph. I'm not sure how accurate that really is. The truth is probably somewhere between this and the Political Compass graph.
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You scored 64 Equality, 64 Liberty, and 50 Stability!
Your commitment to both liberty and equality makes you a blend of the Liberal and the Socialist. You value liberty particularly in cultural and personal life. You also value government intervention to promote equity in economic life while still supporting private enterprise. For you liberty and equality are two parts of the same condition. Everyone has to be free to pursue their own way-of-life but in order for that to happen everyone must start with a similar basic standard of living.
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Here's the first question on the first quiz:
If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.
That is a false choice. There is no reason that serving the interests of humanity cannot serve the interests of trans-national corporations or vice versa.
Since I feel the logic of the question is flawed I disagree with it. But, of course, saying that I disagree with it would be interpretted as answering in favor of corporations over humanity.
Here's another one:
Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment.
Controlling the first helps control the second. Another false choice.
There are several examples like this in these sorts of tests. That's why I find them unreliable and biased. Nevertheless, I took them for fun.
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87
Political Objectives
Liberal-Conservative
You scored 50 Equality, 85 Liberty, and 78 Stability!
Your commitment to both liberty and stability makes you a blend of the Liberal and the Conservative. You value liberty particularly in economic life and embrace private enterprise. You also recognise the value of traditional culture and institutions. You are keen on notions of the person who is ambitious yet well-behaved. Occasionally your economic and cultural positions may clash but in general you will find practical ways to reconcile them.
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 99% on Equality
You scored higher than 99% on Liberty
You scored higher than 99% on Stability
World's Smallest Political Quiz
The political description that
fits you best is...
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LIBERTARIAN
LIBERTARIANS support maximum liberty in both personal and
economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one
that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence.
Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose
government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate
diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 90%.
Guess that clears things up!
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....in the kitchen
;)
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You scored higher than 99% on Equality
You scored higher than 99% on Liberty
You scored higher than 99% on Stability
Liberal-Conservative
You scored 35 Equality, 85 Liberty, and 71 Stability!
The political description that
fits you best is...
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LIBERTARIAN
I think I broke the other one.
And I don't accept the verdict of these two.
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Of course none of these tests are perfect, but they generally give a good idea of where one stands. It is interesting to note that some people won't take them (they are often afraid to be classified) and others game them to get a result they want. Still, I think the overall view of the people that have taken them so far is fair.
One note is that on tests that use international definitions, Americans tend to score higher on "libertarian" or "liberal" issues. In general the American populace favors individualism more than Europeans and Asians. There are, of course, exceptions to that, but our culture tends to promote those ideas more.
Political Objectives Test
You scored 92 Equality, 57 Liberty, and 50 Stability!
You are a bit difficult to classify. You may well be a Socialist. However your greater than average commitment to equality may make you more of a Utopian Socialist. On the other hand your secondary commitment to liberty may make you a Social-Liberal. Check all links and see what you think.
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41
What does this mean? Anyone?
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.72
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 40%.
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Chicky!
You devilish centrist you :)
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I must say that I am VERY surprised by these results! I believed myself to be more "Rightist" than all these tests show. Got room in your camp, anyone on the Left? :-)
Your Political Compass:
Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.33
Political Objectives Test:
Socio/Liberal
You scored 71 Equality, 57 Liberty, and 50 Stability!
World's Smallest Political Quiz:
Centrist
Your Personal issues score is 40%
Your Economic issues score is 50%.
Why doesn't someone collate all them and put them on one graph? (I do not have any time until the weekend to do it) It might be fun!
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21
The Political Objective Test
Moderate
You scored 64 Equality, 78 Liberty, and 71 Stability!
Your feel that all three principles are important. You take some interest in politics and definitely have opinions. However those opinions may be formed on a case-by-case basis because you lack an overriding commitment to any of the principles. You may sometimes get confused by complex political issues because you can be persuaded by different arguments. Moderates like yourself are important in mediating between others in a parliamentary democracy. If you get involved in politics then you may well be working alongside Conservatives or Liberals or Socialists depending on your inclinations and circumstances.
World's Smallest Political Quiz
According to your answers, the political description that fits you best is...Libertarian
LIBERTARIANS support maximum liberty in both personal and economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence. Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 80%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 80%.
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:D