Why has Elena Kagan not recused herself during these proceedings?  

Romney's location on the diagram is wrong. He wouldn't have one. His score with be a formula, amd the results would be totally based on variables. 

KoS wrote:

There is something very wrong on this picture. Here we see a stern, almost angry Obama showing us a Constitution in flames.  In real life he would do it with a big smile and even a smirk on his face. 

horsewithteeth11 wrote: Your political compass Economic Left/Right: 7.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64 And here's a handy-dandy chart of how I compare to all the presidential candidates: I think I'm still about as far on the right, but I've definitely dropped a few points lower on the chart.

LOL! Not the most accurate but I think those results are no surprise. Everyone clustered, with Santorum being the most authoritarian
Political compass is a pretty decent test, one of the best I've personally seen.


I used to be bottom left aka less government in your life, more for economics...let's see if I've moved much.
I kind of doubt it because I remember the questions being kind of vague and you could agree/disagree with the statement while having lots of wiggle room


Edited by JJLehto - March 27 2012 at 17:53

No I'm not bald yet. Give me 10 years. 

Many of the questions on that test are rather stupid but I love tests so: Economic Left/Right: 3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41 

Edited by The T - March 27 2012 at 16:58

^Thank you for contributing this excellent addition to our discussion. 

The political compass is fun, but the question are worded so poorly. If a student in one of my Statistics classes handed that to me as their questionnaire, I would have to give them a poor grade. I'm surprised at where they have Ron Paul placed. Part of the problem also comes from the assumption of the existence of some compass to place people along.

I'll point out some issues with the questions.

1) If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.

I would answer, strongly agree to this. However, the question assumes when placing you that the two interest do not align. One extreme makes you right, the other extreme makes you left.

2) Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.

I would answer strongly agree to this. This would have me labeled in the direction of left and authoritarian. I would call the former meaningless and the latter incredibly inaccurate as a label for me.

I think corporations should be regulated, but I do not believe they should be regulated by a government. The question assumes only a governmental body can provide the regulation.

3) Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment.

There's a lot wrong with this. Part of it being that if I find the two to be completely equal in importance, I would say I strongly disagree with this question. However, that would have me being pegged as saying unemployment is more important to control than inflation.

A lot of them fall into similar trouble with how they assign grades to responses.

Anyway just for reference:




Edited by Equality 7-2521 - March 27 2012 at 16:01

Yes. Is there a better test other than the Libertarian Purity Test? That's the only one I've ever taken where I felt satisfied with the results.

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