Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.12&soc=-5.28

Apparently I'm the Dalai Lama.

I think we've done this before, but I'll gladly do it again - priorities change after all

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=0.50&soc=-5.69

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-3.12&soc=-5.74

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.62&soc=-5.95

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.00&soc=-7.74

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=0.50&soc=-5.38

Me and gwiz have pretty much identical political views, apparently.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.50&soc=-7.28

Who wins the coffee mug?

Interesting.
Economic Left/Right: -4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.12&soc=-6.15

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.50&soc=-8.41

http://i.imgur.com/7sqqf.png

>> ^Sarzy:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=0.50&soc=-5.38
Me and gwiz have pretty much identical political views, apparently.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.88&soc=-6.92

Is there anyone else in my neighborhood? I feel so alone.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-1.38&soc=-2.36

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I'm more Libertarian then I thought.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.00&soc=-8.46

Ron Paul 2012!! or something ... I guess.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-3.50&soc=-3.18

I'm certainly seeing a trend so far..

All you centrists with your lack of commitment make me sick.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.62&soc=-7.38

no surprise here.
libertarian left.

Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92
http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-3.75&soc=-4.92

So many liberaltarians.

You going to post your results?>> ^enoch:

no surprise here.
libertarian left.

Here is the chart so far. It's hard to read because of all the names unfortunately, but you can manually take people off the chart if you like. I added a few inactive sifters from the last time this was posted - if you are one of these people and want to retake, let me know and I'll change it. I also added all of the American presidential candidates and Obama. I'll wait for a few more days for others to join, then I'll post.




http://www.politicalcompass.org/charts/crowdgraphpng.php?showform=&Newname=0.0%2C0.0&Newname=on&Newec=-3.4%2C0.0&Newec=on&Newsoc=-5.6%2C0.0&Newsoc=on&
Dystopianfuturetoday=-7.9%2C-6.9&Alien+Concept=-4.4%2C-4.6&Ctrlaltbleach=-6.3%2C-5.5&Duckman33=-5.8%2C-4.6&Lucky760=-1.4%2C-2.4&Zifnab=-6.6%2C-5.9&Dag
=-4.0%2C-8.4&Fantomas=-7.1%2C-5.3&Gwiz665=0.5%2C-5.7&Lann=-3.1%2C-5.7&Speechless=-7.6%2C-6.0&Radx=-7.0%2C-7.7&Eric3579=-6.9%2C-7.5&Sarzy=0.5%2C-5.4&Bo
ise+Lib=-7.5%2C-7.3&Thegrimsleeper=-4.1%2C-6.2&Kulpims=-7.5%2C-8.4&Critical+D=-4.9%2C-6.9&Longde+=-3.5%2C-3.2&Norsuelefantti=-7.6%2C-7.4&Crosswords+=-
3.7%2C-4.9&Ron+Paul=9.5%2C-1.0&Obama=6.0%2C6.0&Romney=7.0%2C6.5&Santorum=7.0%2C8.5&Gingrich=8.0%2C7.5&Qualm=-10.0%2C-10.0&Blankfist=3.9%2C-6.2&Farhad2
000=-3.4%2C-5.6&Newname=0.0%2C0.0&Newname=on&Newec=-9.3%2C0.0&Newec=on&Newsoc=-9.8%2C0.0&Newsoc=on&Peggedbea=-9.3%2C-9.8&newname=&newec=&newsoc=

It turns out all of us are more libertarian than Ron Paul. >> ^dag:

I'm more Libertarian then I thought.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.00&soc=-8.46

Ron Paul 2012!! or something ... I guess.

Well on this chart libertarian is used in a social sense. RP is not socially liberal, just more so than most of the candidates.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

It turns out all of us are more libertarian than Ron Paul. >> ^dag:
I'm more Libertarian then I thought.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.00&soc=-8.46


Ron Paul 2012!! or something ... I guess.

The wordings of the questions on this test are skewed to drive most people to the libertarian answers. Pretty much everyone that takes this test ends up libertarian. (It's run by Libertarians).

Edit: But for what it's worth: http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.75&soc=-5.95

>> ^direpickle:

The wording of the questions on this test are skewed to drive most people to the libertarian answers. Pretty much everyone that takes this test ends up libertarian. (It's run by Libertarians).


Oh yeah, the questions are written in such a way that it's hard to take the results of this test too seriously. Lots of questions are definitely trying to skew you in a certain direction, with wording like "would you do so and so, or are you a heartless asshole?"

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-5.50&soc=-5.54

Took this a few years ago. At least two answers have gone from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree" or vice versa.

In America, the word "libertarian" has come to mean conservative libertarian (lower right quadrant) and the word "liberal" means left libertarian (lower left quadrant). This is why Neo Conservatives, Neo Liberals, Anti War Capitalists, Anti Capitalist Anarchists and Social Democrats can all consider themselves libertarian. Everyone has their own idea of what liberty means and how to achieve it, be it war, capitalism or democracy.

Also, you can have liberty FROM something (negative liberty) and liberty TO DO something (positive liberty). Both are important. Left libertarianism is more about the positive (equality, civil rights, healthcare, education, social safety net), right libertarianism is more about negative liberty ("individual liberty" -a loaded term imo, lower taxes, less regulation, smaller government, austerity).

I don't think this test is run by libertarians, though I could be wrong. I believe this is the quiz they give at the American Libertarian Party boothf, which is far more dubious and leading: http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.00&soc=-5.33

Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.77

where's @bobknight and @quantummushroom ?

Here's the old post about it, for those that care http://philosophy.videosift.com/talk/Take-the-Political-Compass-Test

Warning though, there was a lot more dicks and assholes around back then.
younger me: http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-1.50&soc=-4.46
now me: http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=0.50&soc=-5.69

More libertarian, more right wing. Interesting, interesting.

@peggedbea: and I thought I was radical

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-9.88&soc=-8.05

Damn, videosift is filled with neocons in comparison.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-6.75&soc=-4.21

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-3.75&soc=-5.08

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Here is the chart so far. It's hard to read because of all the names unfortunately, but you can manually take people off the chart if you like. I added a few inactive sifters from the last time this was posted - if you are one of these people and want to retake, let me know and I'll change it. I also added all of the American presidential candidates and Obama. I'll wait for a few more days for others to join, then I'll post.




http://www.politicalcompass.org/charts/crowdgraphpng.php?showform=&Newname=0.0%2C0.0&Newname=on&Newec=-3.4%2C0.0&Newec=on&Newsoc=-5.6%2C0.0&Newsoc=on&
Dystopianfuturetoday=-7.9%2C-6.9&Alien+Concept=-4.4%2C-4.6&Ctrlaltbleach=-6.3%2C-5.5&Duckman33=-5.8%2C-4.6&Lucky760=-1.4%2C-2.4&Zifnab=-6.6%2C-5.9&Dag
=-4.0%2C-8.4&Fantomas=-7.1%2C-5.3&Gwiz665=0.5%2C-5.7&Lann=-3.1%2C-5.7&Speechless=-7.6%2C-6.0&Radx=-7.0%2C-7.7&Eric3579=-6.9%2C-7.5&Sarzy=0.5%2C-5.4&Bo
ise+Lib=-7.5%2C-7.3&Thegrimsleeper=-4.1%2C-6.2&Kulpims=-7.5%2C-8.4&Critical+D=-4.9%2C-6.9&Longde+=-3.5%2C-3.2&Norsuelefantti=-7.6%2C-7.4&Crosswords+=-
3.7%2C-4.9&Ron+Paul=9.5%2C-1.0&Obama=6.0%2C6.0&Romney=7.0%2C6.5&Santorum=7.0%2C8.5&Gingrich=8.0%2C7.5&Qualm=-10.0%2C-10.0&Blankfist=3.9%2C-6.2&Farhad2
000=-3.4%2C-5.6&Newname=0.0%2C0.0&Newname=on&Newec=-9.3%2C0.0&Newec=on&Newsoc=-9.8%2C0.0&Newsoc=on&Peggedbea=-9.3%2C-9.8&newname=&newec=&newsoc=

Thanks sifty. The chart isn't quite done, but when it is I'll post it in the sift talk. Should I embed it like a standard image?

The test does have some cultural bias, so I think trying to use these numbers as a way to compare political views between countries is going to lead to some strange results... but on the other hand, I'm not really surprised about where the sift ends up on that graph.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.00&soc=-4.62

The test is absolutely and totally biased.

As long as we remember that--it makes for interesting comparisons.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-3.38&soc=-5.95

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-3.38&soc=-5.79

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79

Wow, I'm in almost the exact same spot as the Dalai Lama

Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.10

I've become a couple points more radical since I took the test on the last thread, it appears.