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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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[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.