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[caddyman]

Jumping on the bandwagon, I thought I'd try this political compass thing. By crackey, it's virtually a meme, now.

I think it places me a little further to the left than I think is correct: a large number of the questions needed qualification, as is always true in these cases.



Still, it is interesting.

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[mathcathy]

Whenever I see these things it seems like I and more or less everyone that responds on whoever's LJ it's on is somewhere in the bottom left - Liberal Democrat ground.

And yet, the overwhelming majority of the population vote top right, for Labour and Tory.

I wonder if that makes me and all my friends unusual, or whether all these people think that a Lib Dem vote is a wasted vote and vote against their instincts.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

I took the test after seeing it in caddyman's LJ, and reading your comment. I'm apparently bottom right... I have no idea whether that's a fair representation of my views; on such occasions, I just post it and let others express their surprise, or lack thereof.

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

Personally I am bottom left and wouldn't vote for the Lib Dems as I disagree with almost all of their policies (policies gauged as per their last manifesto).

But then I agree with Bry's second paragraph, and am intrigued by the way that everyone I have seen publish their graph has their mark in the bottom left segment. I suspect the quiz to be unbalanced.

[pauln.livejournal.com]

I'd suspect that it doesn't make allowance for giving different priority to issues and so treats all answers as equal.

It's perfectly possible to be for more expenditure on health services but against greater tax bills, for example. This treats both responses as of equal value, while most people will both have different strengths of opinion on the two and put a different weighting on the importance of the issue. It's necessarily an abstraction to an extent, but the general position gives a basis for discussion. I'd also point out that the site's analysis of the LibDem position puts them bottom right and heading towards top right.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

Apparently, I'm more right wing, and more libertarian, than you. So there. :)

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

A while since I did this, but I hit Milton Friedman's spot exactly.

Of course, it's a load of tosh. these things either have to be exceedingly simple (like The World's Smallest Political Quiz) or much more nuanced than this.

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

I'm down near the bottom left corner (-8.50 on the economic left/right scale and -7.59 on the Social Libertarian/Authoritarian scale) although, whilst the left bit is about right, I don't personally consider myself as libertarian as all that. There again it is probably nigh on impossible to make something like this accurate as the questions are so vague and open to interpretation.