5-dimensional political test

[Meshugger]

 

 

I am surprised by how many people who have taken this test ended up as left-of-centre on "Collectivism". Might there be some sort of bias in the test?

 

Also, all Swedes who have taken the test this far have achieved -100% on "Tribalism". I guess that makes clear the point that the test was made with one culture in mind, other cultures might be off the charts on some of the scales.

 

Well from what i understand about Sweden, the self-hatred of the politicans atleast, is that there are no "swedes" to begin with. Just some barbarians and the rest is imported from other cultures. 

 

Stuff like that is political suicide most other countries.

 

 

Just like there are not any "Americans", right?

 

 

Are you surprised somehow that how the swedish intelligentia see themselves is different compared to in other countries? Just check the political climate in, well Czech Republic for example. 

[Guard Dog]

 

You are a: Objectivist Libertarian Total-Isolationist Cosmopolitan Moderate  AWESOME

Collectivism score: -100%  **** OFF COMMIE

Authoritarianism score: -67% **** OFF NAZI

Internationalism score: -100% **** YOU

Tribalism score: -17% **** YEAH

Liberalism score: 0% **** OFF PINKO

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTUq8r-RGdM

 

 

 

 

Now that's a mouthful.

 

Fixed it for you.

 

  Nuff said!

[Guard Dog]

I am surprised by how many people who have taken this test ended up as left-of-centre on "Collectivism". Might there be some sort of bias in the test?

 

Also, all Swedes who have taken the test this far have achieved -100% on "Tribalism". I guess that makes clear the point that the test was made with one culture in mind, other cultures might be off the charts on some of the scales.

So far except Shady & Leferd all the Americans who have taken it have rung the libertarian or ant-government bell on at least one part of the test. It will be interesting to see if that trend continues. Maybe there is hope for us yet!

[Guard Dog]

 

  Libertarian-Socialist. Now THATS a contradiction!

Nope. The word "libertarian" actually originates with a socialist when he was describing himself.

 

To quote Abraham Lincoln "How many legs does a dog have if you call it's tail a leg? Four, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one."

[Shallow]

You are a: Objectivist Anarchist Total-Isolationist Humanist Liberal

Collectivism score: -83%
Authoritarianism score: -100%
Internationalism score: -100%
Tribalism score: -67%
Liberalism score: 33%

 

Objectivism is the one label up there I think really doesn't fit me, not believing in morality or purpose is a pretty big deal breaker.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Shallow

[Namutree]

You are a: Objectivist Anarchist Total-Isolationist Humanist Liberal

Collectivism score: -83%

Authoritarianism score: -100%

Internationalism score: -100%

Tribalism score: -67%

Liberalism score: 33%

 

Objectivism is the one label up there I think really doesn't fit me, not believing in morality or purpose is a pretty big deal breaker.

Objectivism believe in morality and purpose. So, what are you talking about?

[Tale]

You are a: Centrist Moderate

 

Collectivism score: 0%

Authoritarianism score: 0%

Internationalism score: 0%

Tribalism score: 0%

Liberalism score: 0%

 

What an odd name for "picked maybe on everything without reading it."

[Vaeliorin]

You are a: Right-Leaning Libertarian Cosmopolitan Progressive

 

Collectivism score: -33%

Authoritarianism score: -67%

Internationalism score: 0%

Tribalism score: -17%

Liberalism score: 50%

 

While I object to being called a progressive (and I'd hardly call myself cosmopolitan), I'd tend to agree with Right-Leaning Libertarian.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Vaeliorin

[Meshugger]

You are a: Centrist Moderate

 

Collectivism score: 0%

Authoritarianism score: 0%

Internationalism score: 0%

Tribalism score: 0%

Liberalism score: 0%

 

What an odd name for "picked maybe on everything without reading it."

 

Congratulations.

 

You are hated by everyone, and loved by no one. Politically speaking.

[Oerwinde]

 

 

You are a: Objectivist Libertarian Total-Isolationist Cosmopolitan Moderate

Collectivism score: -100%

Authoritarianism score: -67%

Internationalism score: -100%

Tribalism score: -17%

Liberalism score: 0%

 

Now that's a mouthful.

How did a libertarian get a 0 on liberalism?

 

Well, as Gorgon put it, there are a lot of questions where yes or no make poor answers. There is a lot of "It depends" in those questions.

 

I like this survey better:http://www.isidewith.com/ if you click "choose another stance" they give you all the "it depends" options and does a fair job of tallying them. The only problem is it is very US centric so the folks in Europe might not find it that interesting.

 

 

Parties you side with...

82% Green Party 

on foreign policy, social, environmental, and healthcare issues.

 

79% Democrats 

on environmental, healthcare, economic, and social issues.

 

69% Libertarians 

on immigration, foreign policy, and social issues.

 

59% Socialist 

on social, environmental, and foreign policy issues.

 

36% Republicans 

on immigration and environmental issues.

 

28% Constitution Party 

on immigration issues.

 

28% Conservative Party 

on immigration issues.

 

I'm guessing me siding with the Republicans on environmental issues was when I voted that private enterprise should be incentivised to develop clean energy.

[Shallow]

Objectivism believe in morality and purpose. So, what are you talking about?

Was saying I didn't believe in those things.

[Leferd]

You are a: Communist Authoritarian Multilateralist Cosmopolitan Liberal

Collectivism score: 100%

Authoritarianism score: 67%

Internationalism score: 67%

Tribalism score: -33%

Liberalism score: 33%

First time I've ever been labeled as a cosmopolitan commie.

On www.isidewith.com I got:

 

89% Democrat

87% Green

68% Socialist

59% Libertarian

25% Constitution

21% Conservative

18% Republican

 

I suppose I really shouldn't vote Republican ever.

[Guard Dog]

 

You are a: Communist Authoritarian Multilateralist Cosmopolitan Liberal

Collectivism score: 100%

Authoritarianism score: 67%

Internationalism score: 67%

Tribalism score: -33%

Liberalism score: 33%

First time I've ever been labeled as a cosmopolitan commie.

On www.isidewith.com I got:

 

89% Democrat

87% Green

68% Socialist

59% Libertarian

25% Constitution

21% Conservative

18% Republican

 

I suppose I really shouldn't vote Republican ever.

 

You live in California. You might as well spit on a wildfire as vote for a Republican for all the good it will do there.

[Darkpriest]

Hmm the other test would be:

 

66% Conservative Party 

on domestic policy, social, and environmental issues

 

62% Republicans

on economic, social, and environmental issues.

 

62% Libertarians
on economic, immigration, and healthcare issues.

 

59% Democrats

on domestic policy and immigration issues.

 

57% Constitution Party
on social and environmental issues.

 

43% Green Party

on domestic policy and healthcare issues.

 

6% Socialist

no major issues

 

Well I knew I am not a socialists and that each side has some merit on various problems, I guess there is just no party called "Common Sense". The problem is always with the extremists of either political view or simply some various retards spoutng some stupid BS.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Darkpriest

[Guard Dog]

On isidewith.com I got:

 

90% Libertarians

88% Constitution Party

86% Conservative Party

80% Republicans

39% Democrats

24% Green Party

10% Socialist

 

I wonder what question I aligned with the socialists on? I must have clicked that one wrong.

[Guard Dog]

Hmm the other test would be:

http://www.isidewith.com/

 

Click "Choose another stance" for more answer choices. There is a link to expand the questions on each topic after the last question.

[Valsuelm]

I wonder what question I aligned with the socialists on? I must have clicked that one wrong.

 

These tests have about as much merit as your average 'purity test'. They're limited by the box the designer(s) of the test think in, and I've yet to see one that isn't done in the context of the indoctrinated perceptions of mass media and bought propaganda. Generally it's a polarized box, and thus generally serves to polarize. For anyone with a working brain the majority of the questions are not black and white issues, nor yes/no/maybes. Nor does a 'maybe' make you a 'centrist'. The issues they touch on more often than not have a great deal more complexity than the question encompasses, and/or they simply rely on a false perception that's perpetrated in the mass media that makes the question foundationless, irrational, or unreasonable in an informed and truly thinking mind.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Valsuelm

[Zoraptor]

Heh on that US one, I got Green (91%) on everything except environmental issues, where I was a Republican (pro offshore drilling, no subsidies for wind power, no subsidies for truck conversions did that I guess). I also got 88% Democrat and I'd never have picked that as an outsider looking in, couldn't see myself voting for either main US party, except perhaps to spite the other.
 

Also, all Swedes who have taken the test this far have achieved -100% on "Tribalism". I guess that makes clear the point that the test was made with one culture in mind, other cultures might be off the charts on some of the scales.

 

There's inevitably a big author/ question bias in these things. For example, Political Compass has me nowhere near any NZ political party (I'm way at the lower left) while the local version of VoteCompass has me pretty much spot on Labour. That is mainly due to better targeted questions on local issues and topics like capital gains tax and raising superannuation ages.

 

I don't like the idea of people taking these tests seriously though, precisely due to that bias. It'd be far too easy to either game them as a political party or for the authors to write them with a(n un)conscious bias to direct people towards one party or another.

[Keyrock]

Collectivism score: 33%

Authoritarianism score: 0%

Internationalism score: 0%

Tribalism score: -50%

Liberalism score: 33%

 

I had a lot of maybe answers, probably a third.  On many of those I leaned one way, but not strongly enough to give a yes or a no.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Keyrock

[Bartimaeus]

(edit) Retaking the "isidewith" quiz, since Opera didn't render it right and I missed a big section of the quiz.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Bartimaeus

[HoonDing]

Collectivism score: 0%
Authoritarianism score: 0%
Internationalism score: -33%
Tribalism score: 0%
Liberalism score: 0%

Clicked Yes everytime

[Keyrock]

My results from www.isidewith.com"

 

 

95%Democrats 

on environmental, social, healthcare, foreign policy, domestic policy, economic, immigration, and education issues.

92%Green Party 

on environmental, healthcare, social, foreign policy, domestic policy, immigration, and education issues.

83%Libertarians 

on healthcare, domestic policy, social, foreign policy, economic, and immigration issues.

63%Socialist 

on environmental issues.

37%Republicans 

on economic issues.

 

I guess I'm still a Democrat, even if I have lost all faith in the party.  The results are what I expected.  I'm liberal on environmental issues, conservative on fiscal issues, and moderate leaning liberal on the majority of other issues.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Keyrock

[Guard Dog]

 

I wonder what question I aligned with the socialists on? I must have clicked that one wrong.

 

These tests have about as much merit as your average 'purity test'. They're limited by the box the designer(s) of the test think in, and I've yet to see one that isn't done in the context of the indoctrinated perceptions of mass media and bought propaganda. Generally it's a polarized box, and thus generally serves to polarize. For anyone with a working brain the majority of the questions are not black and white issues, nor yes/no/maybes. Nor does a 'maybe' make you a 'centrist'. The issues they touch on more often than not have a great deal more complexity than the question encompasses, and/or they simply rely on a false perception that's perpetrated in the mass media that makes the question foundationless, irrational, or unreasonable in an informed and truly thinking mind.

 

Well, these really are for entertainment purposes only. If anyone needs a quiz to tell them who they should vote for they really should do the world a favor and stay home on election day. 

[Bartimaeus]

Interesting: fairly different from the previous attempt, where I missed half of the questions and didn't specify importance of the answers for any of them.

 

 

Edited November 29, 2014 by Bartimaeus

[Woldan]

Right-Leaning Libertarian Non-Interventionist Moderate

 

Collectivism score: -17%

Authoritarianism score: -67%

Internationalism score: -33%

Tribalism score: 0%

Liberalism score: 0%

 

HAH!