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A while back I asked my readers to take a political quiz and report their results. I've taken those results and plotted them. Bear in mind that they only represent my readers. I'm not looking to replicate a blogosphere-wide map. If you're one of my readers and you'd like to be on this map, take the quiz and leave a comment with your coordinates.
Addendum 11/27/05: I thought perhaps some readers might be interested in posting their coordinates from this quiz as well. Notice the linear dependecy of y on x in the first quiz? Well, this quiz corrects for that. Be sure to give your unnormalized scores.
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So I noticed that you became more authoritarian (a somewhat inflammatory term; did a libertarian design this quiz?) over the past two years. Any commentary on how this came about?
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Posted 26 Nov 2005 at 8:53 pm ¶Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.46
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Posted 26 Nov 2005 at 9:09 pm ¶Wow — makes me seem like the near perfect centrist I always dreamed of becoming.
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Posted 26 Nov 2005 at 9:53 pm ¶Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.44
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Posted 26 Nov 2005 at 10:05 pm ¶Jer, I'd chalk it up to learning more about my faith.
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Posted 26 Nov 2005 at 11:04 pm ¶Economic left/right: -1.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.18
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Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 4:21 am ¶Economic left/right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13
I wonder how I would have scored when I was 16. I'd guess Economic -7, Social near 0.
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Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 4:54 am ¶Ec. L/R: -5.50
Soc. L/A: -0.92
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Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 5:00 pm ¶Economic Left/Right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.03
I was really hoping to be more authoritarian than this. They need more questions about how important monarchs are.
sk
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Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 10:00 pm ¶These quizzes are fascinating.
On the second one, I got:
Left/Right: +0.5071
Idealism/Pragmatism: -1.8941
My results, on their graph, appear dangerously close to Josef Stalin!
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 3:01 am ¶Second Quiz:
left/right -2.6893
pragmatism +3.0384
So sad to see that I turned 30 and am no longer an idealist
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 3:34 am ¶Ah, Emily, you crazy Russians are all the same.
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 3:48 am ¶I wouldn't get too hung up on the labels, Sean. They're just best guesses. It's hard to pin exact meanings to eigenvectors, especially those derived from subjective data.
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 3:49 am ¶Economic Left/Right: -0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.18
The first several times I've seen this type of test it was given by Libertarians — they used to print up a little quiz card with a chart like this. They didn't like the Left/Right spectrum too much.
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 4:14 am ¶I'm not too fond of it, either.
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 4:26 am ¶First: Jerry, I think those who aren't "libertarian" are, by definition, authoritarians. Being raised in the US and fed its propaganda, I think we've come to believe that it's somehow a nasty slur, when in reality, it's just a descriptor. Kind of like how calling someone "ignorant" is somehow rude, even though it just means that they lack a piece of knowledge.
I think these quizzes are pretty crappy. They kind of assume that you're coming at it from the perspective of what, exactly, will help people the most. What if I don't care about other people?
Just kidding. But seriously, though, these quizzes are based on a number of assumptions that are hardcore BS. There were a number of questions that were clearly there to flesh out one's left/right alignment, but I answered from a purely authoritarian perspective. It seemed like I was giving answers that would sound like the stereotypical opinion of a GLBT San Francisco liberal, or a Bible-belt conservative, depending, but not for the same reasons as these people, and that an internet quiz didn't allow me to explain. It's kind of like how there's a weird melange of people opposed to the existence of the state of Israel: the anti-Semitic white power Alabama crowd as well as the fashionable hipster Greenwich Villagers — they agree, but not for the reasons that you'd think.
Anyway
Quiz 1
Econ. L/R: -6.00
Soc. Lib./Auth.: -0.21
Quiz 2
L/R: -2.7811 (-0.1674)
Pragmatism: -4.9673 (-0.2990)
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 8:51 am ¶Quiz 1
Economic L/R -5.25
Social Lib./Auth -1.08
Quiz 2
L/R -0.4609
Pragmatism -1.8305
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 3:36 pm ¶Quiz Uno
Economic Left/Right: 3.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.00
Quiz Dos
Left/Right +6.825
Pragmatism -0.1685
Guess I'm the red-state outlier. Now where'd I leave my assault rifle?
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 6:58 pm ¶Economic Left/Right: -3.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.44
I thought I was more of a social authoritarian.
"…thy liberty in law."
-America, the Beautiful"
-Katherine Lee Bates
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 9:24 pm ¶Economic Left/Right: -3.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.82
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 9:53 pm ¶tom,
you are from san francisco and all
you know what they say about people from san francisco….
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Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 12:52 am ¶What? I like girls.
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Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 8:03 pm ¶i don't know about these numbers….for someone who is as "socially conservative" as i am, i scored quite libertarian:
quiz 1
conomic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51
quiz 2
1 left/right -6.4796 (-0.3900)
2 pragmatism -3.8055 (-0.2291)
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Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 10:18 pm ¶Economic Left/Right: 4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.59
Left/Right: 1.4352
Pragmatic/Idealist: 0.9252
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Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 11:47 pm ¶Looks like I bucked the x-y dependency trend on Political Compass:
Left/Right: -5.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian: +0.51
On the Political Beasts poll, I got:
Left/Right: +0.2637
Pragmatic/Idealist: -2.9258
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