If you'll note, Sasaki, we Americans are spread all across the spectrum, whilst you Europeans are all clustered in the bottom left quadrant. I'd say this speaks highly for our diversity of thought.
Re: Political alignment analysis
If you'll note, Sasaki, we Americans are spread all across the spectrum, whilst you Europeans are all clustered in the bottom left quadrant. I'd say this speaks highly for our diversity of thought.
Re: Political alignment analysis
One way to explain it: The US is younger than Europe, so the anarchists have not had enough time to convert everyone to their thinking yet
Want gunpowder, mongols, and timurids to appear when YOU do?
Playing on a different timescale and never get to see the new world or just wanting to change your timescale?
Click here to read the solution
Annoyed at laggy battles? Check this thread out for your performance needs
Got low fps during siege battles in particular? This tutorial is for you
Want to play M2TW as a Vanilla experience minus many annoying bugs? Get VanillaMod Visit the forum Readme
Need improved and faster 2H animations? Download this! (included in VanillaMod 0.93)
Re: Political alignment analysis
Darnit. I'm the right-most European if that is to be believed. Fragony, please take that test ASAP!
"The facts of history cannot be purely objective, since they become facts of history only in virtue of the significance attached to them by the historian." E.H. Carr
Re : Re: Political alignment analysis
Ho-ho, hang on! We are dealing with .Org demographics.Originally Posted by Lemur
For one thing, the French DevDave's or Fragonies don't speak English. At least not enough to participate on an English forum for recreational purposes.
I think the continental orgah demographic in general are even more skewed towards the younger and better educated than the .org in general. I.e. liberal, leftist college or recent ex-college students. The continental Xiahou's, Dons and Odins are not here either. It is one thing that I've noticed before, that the Americans here are much more varied than the Euros.
This is very interesting, Productivity. Thanks for your effort.
Mind taking the test? I'm quite curious to your result.
Last edited by Louis VI the Fat; 09-02-2007 at 14:49.
Re: Political alignment analysis
Ha! Excellent observation, Louis; we Yanks sometimes forget what part of the european population would likely ever visit such a place as totalwar.org's backroom, let alone participate.
I took HoreTore's survey twice: once last night after several beers concluding a particularly strenuous 2 weeks of work. That result:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.41 A Euro in disguise!
then again, this morning, sober, after watching some of the political talking-heads TV shows:
Economic Left/Right: 6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 8.05 Ghengis Khan was a weenie compared to me!
My explanation for the disparity is, when drinking, I'm less likely to want to control my environment. Sober, I crave absolute control, as long as I'm the one in-charge!
Either that, or I'm a nut case.
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
Re: Political alignment analysis
The ultimate reason why drinking is good!!
Or, it may explain why we euro's are lefties...
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: Political alignment analysis
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.08
Sounds about right on the Social side, but I figured I'd be a little more positive on the Economic. I don't trust the government, but I don't really trust unregulated corporations either.
The .Org's MTW Reference Guide Wiki - now taking comments, corrections, suggestions, and submissions
If I werent playing games Id be killing small animals at a higher rate than I am now - SFTS
Si je n'étais pas jouer à des jeux que je serais mort de petits animaux à un taux plus élevé que je suis maintenant - Louis VI The Fat
"Why do you hate the extremely limited Spartan version of freedom?" - Lemur
Re: Political alignment analysis
Hmm, this seems to tell us that is the Europeans who have a off kilter sense of left and right politics, not the Americans.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
Re: Political alignment analysis
Did you check out the EU political compass? And the US primaries compass?
But sure, you're correct, how else would the Europeian goverments be in that square while the people in the opposite one?
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED
Re: Political alignment analysis
Hmmmm, interesting range of alignment, (but that's obvious in the Backroom without the quiz), it's interesting to see that the age of the Orgah generally relates to the alignment. The younger members seem to be more left and liberal than the older members.
Much more left than I thought it would be.Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.82
Last edited by naut; 09-03-2007 at 10:11. Reason: Typo.
#Hillary4prism
BD:TW
Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
Re: Political alignment analysis
I think they screwed up, at least in regards to the US primaries - the dems should be at center or probably left of center. Look at Ice and SFTS - I'm not going to believe they are that much to the left of the dem candidates.Did you check out the EU political compass? And the US primaries compass?
But sure, you're correct, how else would the Europeian goverments be in that square while the people in the opposite one?
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
Re: Political alignment analysis
Louis had a good point there, in that it's not necessarily the Europeans as a whole but that a rather different group of European people is represented on these forums than Americans (ie. young, liberal student types). Voting patterns in the EU definitely don't show an innate leftist bias.
"The facts of history cannot be purely objective, since they become facts of history only in virtue of the significance attached to them by the historian." E.H. Carr
AW: Political alignment analysis
Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05
Re: Political alignment analysis
I try to avoid posting in the Backroom (for the sake of harmony, not lack of interest) but figured this was an interesting compilation of Orgah political orientations. Thus, my results:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77
I'm somewhat surprised by my Economic result. I expected to be at least slightly right on that. Hitting a dead 0 makes me feel like I don't know what to take a stance on.
Re: Political alignment analysis
Same as TinCow, here - I normally wouldn't post, but the quiz was interesting.
I do wonder how they weight their results, though, as it's more neutral than I expected...
Economic Left/Right: 0.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.90
From wise men, O Lord, protect us -anon
The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of millions, a statistic -Stalin
We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area -UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer
Re: Political alignment analysis
Your Political Philosophy
The below is a way of thinking about your political philosophy by dividing your PoliticsMatch answers into "personal" and "economic" questions. It is only a theory - please take it with a grain of salt!
Personal Questions: Liberals and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while conservatives and populists agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.
Economic Questions: Conservatives and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while liberals and populists agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.
Your Score
You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:
Personal Score 36%
Economic Score 70%
Where You Fit In
Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Libertarian-Leaning Conservative .
Re: Political alignment analysis
I ended almost precisely in the center of that last test with:
Personal Score 49%
Economic Score 45%
However thist test is quite obviously US-centric.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks