The Political Compass Test…

jmog

Senior Member

Wed, Jul 24, 2024 3:44 PM

Anyone ever take this?


https://www.politicalcompass.org/test


I know some of the questions are worded badly. Like the one about a woman having a “duty” to be a SAHM basically. I disageed with that because of the word “duty” but if it was worded “is it generally better for society if a child has a stay at home mother” I would have agreed…


Anyway, I would have thought I would have come out center right….came out a little further left than I thought. 


geeblock

Member

Wed, Jul 24, 2024 3:57 PM

I will say I didn’t know the answer to a few of the questions. I don’t know what’s more important lowering inflation or lowering unemployment for example. I also had no clue what they were asking on the global economic/ trans global questions. But that is probably pretty close to where I belong 

Ironman92

Administrator

Wed, Jul 24, 2024 5:48 PM

I’ll take this later this coming weekend

justincredible

Honorable Admin

Wed, Jul 24, 2024 6:44 PM

Quite a few that I was neutral on but had to choose one side. I'm probably a littler farther down socially than this, and probably a little further right economically, but it's in the general vicinity that I would expect.


Devils Advocate

Brudda o da bomber

Wed, Jul 24, 2024 7:48 PM

Daaaaayuuum. Say hello to Adolph and J Paul Getty while you’re over there

justincredible

Honorable Admin

Wed, Jul 24, 2024 8:12 PM

Alright.

jmog

Senior Member

Wed, Jul 24, 2024 8:12 PM
posted by Devils Advocate

Daaaaayuuum. Say hello to Adolph and J Paul Getty while you’re over there

Funny, but I think Adolph would be pretty far up the authoritarian Y axis…but still funny comment  


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Devils Advocate

Brudda o da bomber

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 12:18 AM


You fuckers better accept my liberally conservative views or I will force you to be nice to me.

jmog

Senior Member

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 12:46 AM
posted by Devils Advocate


You fuckers better accept my liberally conservative views or I will force you to be nice to me.

You saved and shared the wrong picture  


Devils Advocate

Brudda o da bomber

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 2:09 AM

I didn’t ever say I was competent

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Devils Advocate

Brudda o da bomber

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 2:25 AM

I always thought that I was liberally conservative.  And Justin, Adolf says that Rogers is a punk ass bitch


Trueblue23

BASEDgod

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 7:42 AM

Some of the questions were horrbily worded, but still fun.

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j_crazy

7 gram rocks. how i roll.

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 10:03 AM


You're right about the wording. I feel like my answers to the questions as worded don't reflect what they are asking. Like is it important for MY kids to get an education? Yes, do I think that all kids should get a religious education? no. I think I'll do it again and change my answers on questions like that, see what it says.


j_crazy

7 gram rocks. how i roll.

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 10:24 AM

so when i did it again, answering the questions how i think they are asking them, i'm a little more libertarian and quite a bit less liberal.

Heretic

Son of the Sun

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 1:00 PM

https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass_js?ec=-3.0&soc=-3.74

I got kind of what JCrazy got on his first one, but as said before, there are a number of questions that were awkwardly phrased. Or at least in a way where I thought the question had a lot of gray area and "agree" "strongly disagree" and so on did not reflect it.

And yes, not savvy enough to just insert the chart. And too lazy to bother with finding the way to do so.

gut

Senior Member

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 3:17 PM
posted by justincredible

Quite a few that I was neutral on but had to choose one side. I'm probably a littler farther down socially than this, and probably a little further right economically, but it's in the general vicinity that I would expect.


Nearly identical to mine - I was ever slightly more to the right, and big shocker that I was one lower toward libertarian

Though I found the wording of some of those questions problematic, especially when there's no "don't care" or "N/A" options.

My economic leanings I suppose are right leaning in the sense that free markets are a conservative view, though "conservative" and "right/Republican" have become increasingly disjointed.

Socially I'm fairly liberal, but in today's age a rational view on social issues I guess is automatically right-of-center.

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gut

Senior Member

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 3:25 PM

Anyone else wondering how many tries it took JMOG to produce his posted result? :)

CenterBHSFan

333 - I'm only half evil

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 4:51 PM

Several years ago this test was much better worded with more thoughtful questions imo. Not sure why the creators changed it so much.

Here's mine:

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justincredible

Honorable Admin

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 10:04 PM

Reps for my fellow bottom righters.

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gut

Senior Member

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 10:16 PM
posted by justincredible

Reps for my fellow bottom righters.

You obviously meant to say "far right MAGA"

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justincredible

Honorable Admin

Thu, Jul 25, 2024 11:08 PM
posted by gut

You obviously meant to say "far right MAGA"

Obviously.

jmog

Senior Member

Fri, Jul 26, 2024 8:59 AM
posted by gut

Anyone else wondering how many tries it took JMOG to produce his posted result? :)

Knew that was coming, but expected it from geeblock. 


To be honest I thought I would be more where justin was, down in libertarian world but more right. 


I think if a few of the questions weren't worded so bad AND there was a "neutral" 5th option rather than just agree/disagree for the middle, I probably would have been more "right".


I specifically remember the "do you think its a woman's duty to prioritize their children over their career". 


I disagreed mainly because of the word duty.


If it had said "do you believe it is overall beneficial for families and society for women to raise their children full time" my answer would have been agree as actual studies show this to be true. But calling it a "duty" sounds too "Stepford Wives" to me.



majorspark

Senior Member

Fri, Jul 26, 2024 1:46 PM

I refuse to take it for the same reason I hang up on pollsters.

gut

Senior Member

Fri, Jul 26, 2024 2:17 PM
posted by jmog

If it had said "do you believe it is overall beneficial for families and society for women to raise their children full time" my answer would have been agree as actual studies show this to be true. But calling it a "duty" sounds too "Stepford Wives" to me.

Thought the exact same thing.

Seems like we've forgotten how to even talk about these issues.  It shouldn't be an LSAT-level parsing of words to figure out the answer.

And that's an otherwise loaded question.  Sure, it's beneficial to societies for women to raise their children.  That should be unobjectionable, but it's been turned into a sexist view. Because, hey, I also believe it's beneficial for society for MEN to raise their children. BOTH parents.  In fact, YES it's a duty for parents to raise their children.  

They've turned something completely unobjectionable into a right-wing sexist position.

Not a good test if you can tell exactly which answers land you where.  Makes you ask "where does their funding come from", because if there's value in that test I'm not seeing it.

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