to get your score. No thanks

Maybe you have malware on your computer?

I didn't at all and got my score. Make sure you go all the way to the bottom of the page. Good Luck!

Way left

Thanks all

I am so glad that it worked out for you. That was fun to do. A lot of questions though.

And I'm curious about the astology question. I wonder how whether or not you believe in astrology affects your score.

I like to think I am fairly progressive but I think I am a little more moderate than my score indicates.


Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79

I'm not at all. So I agree with you.

Possible we both have hidden anarchy tendencies which would tend to somehow show up on this test.

I've taken this a few times over the years and I always land in the green quadrant.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-7.62&soc=-4.41

It is your OP!!!

A diverse professional team has assessed the words and actions of internationally known contemporary leaders to give you an idea of how they relate to each other on the political compass.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

My point was what measures were they using to place these people. As you say a team of people assessed the words and actions of these people. I'm assuming then they took the test pretending to be said individual and answered the questions based on a profile they had drawn up of these individuals based on public actions and words. That's going to be fairly subjective. I'm not saying they are wrong, I agree with most of the points on there. But it's quite different from having them take the test themselves, which is obviously not going to happen. IMO it would have been better to not have them placed as dots in this case but outlined as vague coloured areas to give a better feeling of the uncertainty.

But many of the questions are pretty loaded in my opinion. They tend to assume that every corporation is some greedy predator. Juvenile.

But then questions on a likert scale often are extreme. The whole

Strongly agree
Strongly disagree

Concept lends itself to extreme questions and responses.

Would be farther down in the lower left. At least when you compare relative distances of the other people on here.

Also, IIRC this whole model is a libertarian recruiting tool (they push people more towards "libertarian" than they probably are).

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.67

I'm rather surprised by the second one. I don't have (to my knowledge) any amounts of authoritarianism, and have never scored that high on it. Granted, -2 isn't exactly 'high', but its still higher than normal (high defined as numerically larger, so -1 is higher than -2 for instance). Maybe I didn't use enough Stronglys.

It's one of my main problems with it.

Thank you, I wasn't aware of that.

I've seen the 3-dimensional 'box' that has like...9, I think?...aspects of political thought in it, but I couldn't find it again when I went googling for it. I thought that one was the most accurate one I'd ever seen.

It seems I am more socially conservative than most here.

Econ: -7.12
Lib/Author: -6.67

All hail general Zod!!

You don't hail general Zod, you kneel before him.

The way that some of the questions were worded were a little strange, though, like the ones asking if submitting to authority is a sign of maturity. Also like a previous poster wondered, I was curious about the astrology one.

What do I win?

I pretty much AM a Marxist anarchist, with emphasis on the socialism. Can't figure out how to link my graph, but the scores were

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.41

WAY down in the bottom left corner, LOL.

/Shrug, sounds about right.

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -7.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46

Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.05

Interesting that the Dalai Lama is the closest public figure to us - where are the -9.0, -9.0's?

There is now a worrying fusion of information and entertainment.

And as Recursion pointed out above it seems the poll is slanted towards libertarianism still a fun exercise though, so long as you take it with a grain of salt.