Where do you stand, politically? Do you consider yourself left- or right-wing? There's a neat site called The Political Compass that raises a question about that:
The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left', established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape ...You can take the test (it's anonymous) and find out where you stand on their chart. Once you finish the test, your results will be displayed about halfway down the results page.
[T]he social dimension is also important in politics. That's the one that the mere left-right scale doesn't adequately address. So we've added one, ranging in positions from extreme authoritarian to extreme libertarian.
I know, I know, Gary plugged this ages ago on the old blog, so consider this for new readers and another chance to discuss the test results, methodology, and meaningfulness.
2 comments:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.05
Ta-da
Economic Left/Right: 0.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38
I take the test every once in a while and my results are pretty consistent -- sometimes I'll test one notch east or west and one or two notches north.
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