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Permalink Reply by Nate on October 31, 2011 at 9:53am

Hehe yeah I always play "evil" Characters or paths in games.  So much more fun, heres waiting for a spot in the Sith empire in The Old Republic =P

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Permalink Reply by Dale Headley on October 31, 2011 at 1:28pm

  I came out slightly to the left and below you and Gandhi.  Not bad company.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Wolf on October 31, 2011 at 1:34pm

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.25&soc=-0.92

 

My results, I have to be honest I completely disagree, some of the questions I sorta coped out on so I may go back and retake it. Honestly I would have to say I am economically right and socially more in in the center.  And for the most part support the Libertarian party

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Morris on October 31, 2011 at 1:37pm

So if you flipped your monitor upside down, you'd get the results you wanted? :3 j/k

Aye, some of the questions made me had to open a separate window and hit Wikipedia. 'Protectionism' was a term I remember not being familiar with.

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Permalink Reply by Trish E. Harmon on November 1, 2011 at 12:53am

LOL! I had to do the same thing...and "protectionism" was a term I didn't know. I think I had to google 2 or 3 things =0)

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Permalink Reply by clay harshbarger on October 31, 2011 at 2:17pm

About where I expected to be

 

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Permalink Reply by Katrina Smith on October 31, 2011 at 3:01pm

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.62&soc=-6.10

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Morris on October 31, 2011 at 3:08pm

Welcome to T/A btw (I'm a newbie myself).

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Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on October 31, 2011 at 4:51pm

Hi all, I made a blog post on this a while ago so check out my blog on this site to get a few more results. I think most atheists are in the bottom left corner with some (a significant portion) in the bottom right corner. I am yet to see an atheist in the top half of the compass.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Morris on October 31, 2011 at 4:57pm

Cool, thanks for the input (sorry, guess I should have searched the archives first).

Yeah, so far I've seen trending just like you've described. A strong libertarian streak, and amongst those, a left leaning majority. Which now leads to the more speculative part: why do you suppose that is?

Personally, suspect the libertarian streak is backlash against a government run by a religious majority. (The Y axis part of the chart is the part I'm most interested in).

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Permalink Reply by Rob Todd on October 31, 2011 at 5:34pm

The problem with this political test is that it's narrow in definition and assumes that everyone that takes the test wants a government. Also question like "should corporation be regulated?"is a problem, because what if I don't believe in corporations, or government for that matter.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Morris on October 31, 2011 at 5:45pm

I agree that some of the questions could use refining, but with regards to narrow definitions, I respectfully disagree. The benefit of a test like this is that it shows political viewpoints on a gradient scale, rather then flat terms.

Admittedly, it does not take into account more purist ideologies, I think it would be safe to say that someone who found themselves on the bottom of the chart was either a pure libertarian, or anarchist (by which I mean, someone who believes in the absence of government, and nothing more).

The question of wether the test taker believes in government is somewhat irrelevant, though, as government DO exist, regardless of wether you think they do, or wether you think they are effective.

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