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The Official Political Compass Thread - Where do you lie?

Top Right 11 10.48%
 
Top Left 9 8.57%
 
Bottom Right 18 17.14%
 
Bottom Left 58 55.24%
 
Centre 9 8.57%
 
Total:105

This thread is now locked. The new one can be found here, and has a site aggregate: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=130750

DO NOT VOTE IN THE POLL BEFORE TAKING THE TEST.

Thanks to Machina, one of my few fellow top-rights on VGChartz, for the permission. Don't know what a top-right is? Read on.

We tend to measure people's political opinions on a one-dimensional scale: left to right, but this isn't really getting the full picture. We can call Stalin left-wing and Hitler right-wing, despite the fact that they are both authoritarians and in that sense very similar. Also left-wing are Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, but they're nothing like Stalin. Similarly, a "far right" party such as the British National Party is actually less neo-liberal than a "centrist" party such as the American Democrats.

We really need two scales, to measure two very different things.

Economic Policy: From left (communism and socialism; government control of all industry and land) to right (free-market capitalism; individual control of all industry and land)

Social Policy: From bottom (liberalism) to top (authoritarianism).

Enter the political compass.

Click the links on the left of the page to read more about the two-dimensional political classification system, and click "Take the Test" to try it for yourself. Then, scroll down to see your results and paste them here, including both the numbers and the graph.

We've had a similar thread to this in the past, but political opinions can always change.

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My own results, making me a top-right:

Economic Left/Right: 6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.67



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Economic Left/Right: -7.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

I am happy that my score put me with Gandhi as he is my all time hero. My PSN and XBL name is PassionOfGandhi. Great thread will have to return as I have a statistics and genetics final to study for.

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Leftedy bottomy!

Although the test didn't feel like it always had the right questions for me, and there were a few questions where I didn't even know what they were talkingabout/didn't know anything on the subject.

But I think it fits pretty well, though I'd put myself a little further to the left maybe. It's hard to tell.



How very neutral 

 



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Rainbird said:

Leftedy bottomy!

Although the test didn't feel like it always had the right questions for me, and there were a few questions where I didn't even know what they were talkingabout/didn't know anything on the subject.

But I think it fits pretty well, though I'd put myself a little further to the left maybe. It's hard to tell.

I actually felt the same way, and was stuck at slightly left slightly below for a while.

Then I researched what some of the questions meant, re-took the test, and went hurtling off to join Thatcher



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Kantor said:

I actually felt the same way, and was stuck at slightly left slightly below for a while.

Then I researched what some of the questions meant, re-took the test, and went hurtling off to join Thatcher

Well, I can't be bothered to do that, and I'm very happy with my socialist views anyway.



Can't be bothered to answer all the questions again but I am roughly -8 on the social scale and 2 on the economic scale.

I am baffled by anyone who can answer those questions and come out positive on the social scale.



tombi123 said:

Can't be bothered to answer all the questions again but I am roughly -8 on the social scale and 2 on the economic scale.

I am baffled by anyone who can answer those questions and come out positive on the social scale.

I'm an atheist, anti-homophobic, believer in rehabilitation, and I was positive on the social scale.



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I don't know if I'm that extreme but it's probably close.



Do you have a link to the old thread? I want to see if I have changed.

edit: nvm Iv'e found it http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=107418&page=2

Iv'e gone further to the left and become more liberal.