Political alignment analysis

[Louis VI the Fat]

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.

Ho-ho, hang on! We are dealing with .Org demographics.

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.

Speak for yourself, old fruit.

Mind taking the test? I'm quite curious to your result.

[KukriKhan]

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.

[HoreTore]

The ultimate reason why drinking is good!!





Or, it may explain why we euro's are lefties...

[drone]

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.

[Crazed Rabbit]

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

[Ironside]

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

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?

[naut]

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.

Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.82

Much more left than I thought it would be.

[Kralizec]

Good job on those charts, Productivity.

Seems I'm the most right-wing European on this board
(until Fragony is back, anyway)

[Crazed Rabbit]

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?

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.

CR

[Sasaki Kojiro]

oops

[Ice]

Look at Ice and SFTS - I'm not going to believe they are that much to the left of the dem candidates.

CR

I'd sincerely hope not.

I have a hard enough time rationalizing to vote for any Democrat, but with the people the Republicans are fielding, I may actually.

Although I may just vote for Ron Paul just because I think the man is actually the most trust worthy of them all.

[Ironside]

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.

CR

Kukri might already have answered on that, being in charge (or wanting to become in charge) probably pulls people towards the upper right corner in this test.

[Geoffrey S]

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

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.

[Haudegen]

Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05

[Productivity]

Update time!







Furunculu5, Haudegen and Ichigo I'm not sure where to put you (EU/US/Other) so that's why you don't come up on the regional map. Evil_Maniac From Mars I only saw your signature after I'd set these up (I have them turned off) so you'll turn up on the regional map next time.

KukriKhan I put you in as your sober result mostly because that quarter was looking a bit lonely. If you'd prefer me to move it I will.

The Europeans move a little to the right in this update but hte average position moves slightly to the left. Sigurd gets the reward to closests to 0,0 and SFTS is still closest to the average.

[TinCow]

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.

[sapi]

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

[JR-]

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 .

[Kralizec]

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.

[Xiahou]

Wow, that was a nice short quiz.

89%/20%

The only question I really didn't care for was the Immigration/Amnesty one. I didn't think it was fair to lump so many concepts into one question. Encourage (legal) immigration would've gotten a "support" answer. While amnesty/encourage illegal immigration would've gotten on "oppose". As it were, I just voted "oppose". Still, it seemed to line up pretty well with the previous test, considering how much shorter it was.

Although the quiz labels me "Hard-core conservative", I usually prefer a "Conservative with a slight libertarian lean" and I think the chart reflects that well enough. A more nuanced test would likely have me a bit higher on the personal scale.