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Political Compass

Just took the quiz again to see if my results would change.

ECON: .12
SOC: .10

Not much change
 
Wrangor said:
Economic Left / Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian / Authoritarian: 0.97

More left on the economy than I thought. Some of the questions were tough though. No real room for a nuanced response.
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Trying to change your radical socialist stripes.
 
I also just put the numbers in a spreadsheet and spit out a few numbers....

My graph work is pretty shaky, but here are some of the results.

Economy:
Lean Left: 19 (61%)
Lean Right: 12 (39%)

Social:
Lean Left: 29 (93%)
Lean Right: 2 (7%)

There is a huge left bias on these boards (particular with social issues). Glad someone brought this thread back up. Perfect conclusion to that previous discussion.

Mean Score:
Economy: -0.77
Social: -2.98

Median Score:
Economy: -1.75
Social: -3.13
 
Wrangor said:
I also just put the numbers in a spreadsheet and spit out a few numbers....

My graph work is pretty shaky, but here are some of the results.

Economy:
Lean Left: 19 (61%)
Lean Right: 12 (39%)

Social:
Lean Left: 29 (93%)
Lean Right: 2 (7%)

There is a huge left bias on these boards (particular with social issues). Glad someone brought this thread back up. Perfect conclusion to that previous discussion.

Mean Score:
Economy: -0.77
Social: -2.98

Median Score:
Economy: -1.75
Social: -3.13
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So ~60% of people (with a small sample size) lean left economically. I don't think this really helps your point that 80% of the active posters on this board lean left.

Sure, the vast majority of people lean left socially (because your people have successfully redefined what it means to be in the "center" socially), but the whole point of the political compass is that "left" and "right" aren't really adequate to describe someone's political beliefs.
 
BeachBumDeac said:
So ~60% of people (with a small sample size) lean left economically. I don't think this really helps your point that 80% of the active posters on this board lean left.

Sure, the vast majority of people lean left socially (because your people have successfully redefined what it means to be in the "center" socially), but the whole point of the political compass is that "left" and "right" aren't really adequate to describe someone's political beliefs.
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I think the problem is that the social center needs to be redesigned. Wrangor is socially conservative. He says so, and we can all agree on that. This exercise puts him square in the middle.
 
Ah hah...so now the political compass people are biased. Gotcha. I think I am fairly moderate personally. I know this board doesn't think so, so it is no use arguing, but I am certainly far left of any of my friends down here in Mississippi both economically and socially.

You said it best "The problem is that the social center needs to be redesigned". That was my exact point in the earlier thread. Move the goal posts and this board isn't liberal anymore! Lets just call a spade a spade. This board leans pretty heavily to the left. It is a great source of information and discussion, but it has a liberal influence on most threads especially social agenda threads. That is why they always blow up.
 
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Wrangor said:
Ah hah...so now the political compass people are biased. Gotcha. I think I am fairly moderate personally. I know this board doesn't think so, so it is no use arguing, but I am certainly far left of any of my friends down here in Mississippi both economically and socially.

You said it best "The problem is that the social center needs to be redesigned". That was my exact point in the earlier thread. Move the goal posts and this board isn't liberal anymore! Lets just call a spade a spade. This board leans pretty heavily to the left. It is a great source of information and discussion, but it has a liberal influence on most threads especially social agenda threads. That is why they always blow up.
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I don't think I ever argued the board leans left. Of course it does. Presumably, most posters are college educated (or "college educated" in the case of jhmd and other holes), you would expect a liberal lean. I just find it hard to believe that you are middle America in 2014 in terms of social issues. FTR, I wouldn't consider myself a moderate at all. I think the middle on some key social issues is changing with age demographics, and it's changing fast.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
I think the problem is that the social center needs to be redesigned. Wrangor is socially conservative. He says so, and we can all agree on that. This exercise puts him square in the middle.
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Wrangor takes a lot of crap for the bolded part, and I think it is unfair. He is personally conservative, but seperates his personal moral code from his ideas about social equity. There is a difference between personal morals and social conventions, and he is honest enough with himself to tell the difference. (Unlike some of the board hysterics.)
 
Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.72

I agree that those are some stupid questions. Worded differently I would drift more to the middle, but the absolute nature of the questions distort your opinion on a given subject.
 
If the Republican Party would get their head out of their asses on social policy, the "middle" would become a much broader spectrum. As it stands now, the social policies of the far right are such a narrow minded space, that anyone who thinks outside that box is well to the left.

Not sure I worded that correctly, but that's how I see it.

I need to retake the test. A couple years ago I was firmly middle of the road socially, and leaning healthy conservative economically. I personally feel like I'm swing back towards the middle on economics, mostly due to the glaring income gap between the middle class and the wealthy. 5+ years of watching my wife not get a raise, and our combined family income growth not outpacing inflation, has started to wear on me. It sucks to work harder than ever and lose ground.
 
Liquid Karma said:
If the Republican Party would get their head out of their asses on social policy, the "middle" would become a much broader spectrum. As it stands now, the social policies of the far right are such a narrow minded space, that anyone who thinks outside that box is well to the left.

Not sure I worded that correctly, but that's how I see it.

I need to retake the test. A couple years ago I was firmly middle of the road socially, and leaning healthy conservative economically. I personally feel like I'm swing back towards the middle on economics, mostly due to the glaring income gap between the middle class and the wealthy. 5+ years of watching my wife not get a raise, and our combined family income growth not outpacing inflation, has started to wear on me. It sucks to work harder than ever and lose ground.
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This is a good post. For anyone with pragmatic rather than dogmatic political views, the far-right ideology on economic issues is much harder to swallow (due to the events of the past five years).
 
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Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92

I guess I'm not surprised that I'm so far left economically, but I do consider myself a pragmatist and I try to construct my opinions around research, data and evidence. I'm nowhere near as invested in economic issues as I am in social ones, though.

I know for sure that I've slid much more toward the social libertarian side, away from authoritarianism, over the last 6 or so years.
 
I'm a moderate.

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77
 
Man was mine accurate. It said,"It doesn't matter what we say about you. Listen to Wrangor and Skins, they will tell you anyway."
 
Economic Left/Right: 0.62

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38

Pretty much where I thought I'd fall.
 
legacyfan said:
Wrangor takes a lot of crap for the bolded part, and I think it is unfair. He is personally conservative, but seperates his personal moral code from his ideas about social equity. There is a difference between personal morals and social conventions, and he is honest enough with himself to tell the difference. (Unlike some of the board hysterics.)
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This. I am politically pretty center socially. I believe in equal rights for all consenting adults even if I disagree with their life choices. I am completely against abortion, and this where I lean conservative. Everything else I am pretty open minded.
 
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