My Political Compass Score
posted by Dave Hoffman
Following Professor Adler’s lead, I took the Political Compass questionnaire. I scored a -.88 on the Economic Left/Right scale and a -4.41 on the Social Libertarian/Authoritarian scale. According to the chart, this makes me look something like a libertarian version of Pope Benedict the XVI. Bizarre.
Criticisms of these tests persuade me that they are relatively useless at predicting political behavior in the real world. But it is worth a gander.
January 11, 2007 at 10:03 am
Posted in: Weird
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Responses (4)
Law Student '06 - January 11, 2007 at 10:30 am
A fun test:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have
Center Man - January 11, 2007 at 6:42 pm
I always end up in the center or one box out in any of the four quadrants. I am a center centrist.
Nate Oman - January 11, 2007 at 8:55 pm
My score:
Economic Left/Right: 3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.77
Apparently I occupy precisely the same ideological space and Angela Merkel…
dave - January 11, 2007 at 9:04 pm
At least you have a model! I’m forced to invert the Pope to make anyone look vaguely like me. (Gandhi, the also-ran, liked communes overmuch, it seems.)
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