"Where Do You Stand? Take the Political Spectrum Quiz"

ChicoER Gate ^ | 1/7/10 | Chuck Wolk

[Right Brother]

The graph didn’t extend far enough to the right to show where my ‘x’ landed.

[antiRepublicrat]

It assumes that the state stepping in will serve the public interest rather than making those corporate interests even more powerful.

It's also vague because power itself is meaningless. How is the corporation using that power? I don't mind a corporation having a lot of power if it is not used to the detriment of the public interest. Monopolies aren't illegal, abuse of monopoly power is.

Then there's also the issue of the definition of power. Economic power? Powerful because they're big and rich and everybody buys their poducts? Or are they considered powerful because they bought off three-quarters of Congress? I do have a problem with the latter.

[Guyin4Os]

Who decides where the “center” is?

[Juana la Loca]

I didn’t like this quiz. It scored me as right, social moderate. Anyone that knows me will tell you that I am FAR from being a social moderate. I think this was a result of poorly worded questions and poor assumptions about the responses by the scorer.

For example, one of the questions was something akin to “Blasphemous or offensive art should be suppressed.” Well, suppressed by whom? I don’t think that’s the government’s role, but I do think galleries, proprietors, artists and patrons should. Of course, they don’t...so we get the likes of Roger Maplethorpe. I have a bigger issue with government funding of such artwork, but that was not the question.

Very frustrating.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Yeah,,, the question about should the President talk to our enemies? I answered yeah, but didn’t give it the highest priority. If the Prez is reading our enemy leaders the riot act, that’s okay with me.
Can’t figure out how to post the graph, but here are my results. Fairly close to One Vike.
Right Social Moderate
Right—5.62
Authoritarian—0.77
Foreign Policy—7.44
Culture—6.07

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Interesting. I thought this would be the classic Libertarian quiz, which I took over 10 years ago, but it was quite different. Many of the questions are ambiguous and subject to various interpretations. FWIW:

My Political Views
I am a right moderate social authoritarian
Right: 6.64, Authoritarian: 2.34

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My Foreign Policy Views
Score: 0.71

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My Culture War Stance
Score: 5.66

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[antiRepublicrat]

The worst part is most of these questions appear to address specific news items with specific players involved. Even if not consciously, the reader will identify these questions with those events and shape their answers at along the circumstances or their loyalty or hatred for the people involved.

10, 15, 33 and 36 are obviously about Bush and Iraq. Now that Obama is prez, many libs would likely say “yes” for 33 (wrong to question a leader in wartime), where they would have voted “no” under Bush. There’s also the issue of questioning your leaders (IHMO a responsibility of every citizen) and trying to sabotage the war. I questioned Bush over Iraq and Afghanistan, but I did it in a rational, constructive manner.

14 is about Obama talking about meeting Ahmanutjob. Libs would say it wouldn’t make us look weak because they love Obama. But I think it would make us look weak since he’d probably bow submissively (there’s a lot of precedent for that). But Bush would go as a superior, so I would have answered “no” with him in office.

[Krosan]

My Political Views
I am a right moderate social libertarian
Right: 6.4, Libertarian: 2.42

My Foreign Policy Views
Score: 1.38

My Culture War Stance
Score: -0.58

[SnakeDoctor]

My Political Views
I am a far-right social moderate
Right: 7.5, Authoritarian: 0.22

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My Foreign Policy Views
Score: 5.14

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My Culture War Stance
Score: 3.89

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SnakeDoc

[Little Ray]

Compass:
You are a right moderate social authoritarian.
Right: 6.11, Authoritarian: 2.04

Foreign Policy:
On the left side are pacifists and anti-war activists. On the right side are those who want a strong military that intervenes around the world. You scored: 7.18

Culture:
Where are you in the culture war? On the liberal side, or the conservative side? This scale may apply more to the US than other countries. You scored: 7.49

Hmmm. I must getting a bit sentimental in my dotage.

[MetaThought]

You are a right social libertarian. Right: 5.94, Libertarian: 5.88

[Sans-Culotte]

My Political Views
I am a right moderate social authoritarian
Right: 6.32, Authoritarian: 2.33

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My Foreign Policy Views
Score: 6.01

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My Culture War Stance
Score: 7.18

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[Mayr Fortuna]

My dear friend,

I can write a quiz, in witch any answer you take, will lead you to the Right of Attila or to the Left of Satan himself.

The problem with quiz, is the honesty of the enquirer.

[A.A. Cunningham]

NorCal Blogs

[Sans-Culotte]

The quiz is flawed. One question (i now forget which) should be two separate questions; also, it asked whether offensive art should be suppressed, but not whether it should be taxpayer-subsidized. (My response to both would be “no”.)

I had a problem with the way that one was asked as well. I don't care if artists produce crap; I just don't want to subsidize it.

[MalPearce]

According to this test I'm a "culturally conservative" ... "center-left moderate social libertarian" (Left: 1.22, Libertarian: 1.17). Okay, that makes very little sense.

I can only assume this is due to regional weighting, because if I compare it to all other respondents in the UK where I'm from, I'm to the right of the average and of course the structure of government over here is a tad different to that of the United States.

I'm a traditionalist anti-nanny-state Tory Boy and card-carrying Christian to boot, who supports the military provided it's engaged for OUR national defense not the defense of others. And I answered accordingly. It even recognizes that I'm socially conservative.

I can only assume that by indicating in my answers that I'm socially conservative that makes me a statist, and because I think "Peace-keeping" exercises don't constitute "defense of the realm", they actually think I'm a pinko anti-war infiltrator, and on those bases scored me well to the left of where I probably ought to be.

Still, if Jim Robinson thinks they're right, at least I can say I got in before the ZOT.

[warchild9]

The nighttime Freepers would give an entirely different set of responses to this test.

I’m libertarian, slightly-left conservative. That means pro-life, anti-government interference in most any aspect of our lives. That includes censorship, which seems to be pretty popular with daytime Freepers.

[AFreeBird]

Seems I’m above average

[Amos McCoy]

My Political Views
I am a far-right social moderate
Right: 8.33, Authoritarian: 0.83

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My Foreign Policy Views
Score: 6.25

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My Culture War Stance
Score: 5.92

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[Forgiven_Sinner]

Although the questions are ambiguous, rendering this quiz less useful, their comparison of political parties are quite interesting:

http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/poli-compare-parties.html