What are all you libs doing on this board?
Economic Left/Right: 0.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.95
Pretty close to the middle.
there are some ambiguous questions though, and that’s fucked up.
“Sex outside marriage is usually immoral.”
Sex if you’re not married? That’s a-ok. Sex with others if you are married? That’s not ok. They should clear that up. That is a retardedly poor written statement.
I took it to mean pre-marital sex, and said strongly disagree. Who knows.
I’m off the dang chart!
Economic Left/Right: 6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82
Lower right. As I expected myself to be.
Anyone else notice not a single world leader shown was in the bottom right? Sad.
RIP Friedman…
No surprise.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
I’m off the dang chart![/quote]
:o)
Me and Nomi will rule you all! Wait, Nomi and me…I’ll be an administrator and he’ll be in the Executive branch.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Me and Nomi will rule you all! Wait, Nomi and me…I’ll be an administrator and he’ll be in the Executive branch.[/quote]
You’ll have to shave first.
I find it hard to believe that Gordon Brown and George Bush are as close together as depicted … let alone zapatero. I’d like to have said none of the above to some questions …
I hope everyone realizes that the thing is a joke. It has George Bush and Robert Mugabe as nearly equally fascist. The questions are open to many interpretations.
I know we’re usually pretty savvy here.
im basically nelson mandela
I’m surprised that Ron Paul is listed as authoritarian.
[quote]thosebananas wrote:
im basically nelson mandela[/quote]
Oh? I’m sorry.
I did have problems with this test. You could see the political slant of the writer of these questions. The obvious conservative questions were not written in a way a conservative would have written them, but in the way a liberal would.
Also they should have had a neutral answer. Not all questions were agree or disagree.
Then there is their classification of people. Yes Hitler should have been at the top of the chart, and while they didn’t put him very far right, he should have been on the left side.
Bush is nowhere near the right as they put him. It looks like they have a tendency to push people to the right.
Anyway:
Economic Left/Right: 5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54
I have to admit a conservative libertarian fits me well.
too many where things that need to be answered on a case by case basis, and where way too broad.
Any idea why this question is in there? I can’t work out the relevance.
[quote]Magnate wrote:
Any idea why this question is in there? I can’t work out the relevance.
When you are troubled, it’s better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.[/quote]
I also found this to be a poorly written question. Like a question about if you deal with your problems or not.
Also it is so undefined, the answer may depend on what goes through the persons mind when this question comes up. Is it a minor event, or a major one? Is it a problem you can do something about or not?
Other questions had different problems.
The whole premise was a good idea. That we really need to think more multi-dimensionally instead of liberal/conservative. (And the idea that liberal and conservative means different things in different places.)
But the execution was badly done. Liberal - Conservative may be different then authoritarian - libertarian , but they are interconnected. You really cannot create a box like they did.
People attempt to disconnect these two concepts, but it just does not work. To produce liberal ideas requires government rules, and therefore authoritarian laws. Conservative ideas are really about less laws and rules, so move toward the libertarian.
In fact it would simply be best to write Karl Marx in the top right corner, and Ayn Rand in the lower left. Then connect the two with a line. Now your somewhere on that line.
Every rule you want pushes you up that line, and every rule you want eliminated pushes you down that line.
A perfect example is this concept of universal health care/socialized medicine. If the government starts running health care, taking over all health insurance, they effectively have more authority. The authority to take taxes, the authority to decide what is covered and what isn’t.
The conservative concept, already in progress, are health savings accounts. You decide what you spend and where. If you don’t spend it, it is still your money. Government loses it’s authority.
Doesn’t match everything, but in general it fits.
Economic Left/Right: 1.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92
Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97
Interesting, I remember taking this test before studying economics extensively, it seems learning more has moved me to the left a bit. I was right on the line before.
I’m okay with being left of center, as I believe in some environmental protections and that the government occasionally needs to intervene in the market place to break up monopolies. And while I believe strongly in the rule of law, I know that judges, teachers, police officers and other “authority figures” are only human, and there for shouldn’t be trusted.