Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33
me and the Dalai Lama are like that! (that’s me, and that there’s the DL :D)
but I don’t know that I liked the way some of the questions were phrased: ‘A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system’ Well, yea, one of democracy’s failing is the time that it takes to make decisions, but this is not necesarily a bad thing…
Economic Left/Right: -7.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.74
Round about where I usually am, whenever I take one of these tests - way off to the left.
I always seem to come up a bit more to the right than I am because I don’t give a s*** about the environment and/or animals, and it always puzzles me why lefties should care about fluffy animals more than right-wingers.
Eh? So you were placed in the far down-left quadrant and you think you are more extreme than that? Was there a question about the environment? I forgot. If there was that may have centred you more.
The third dimension could be the environment. Like the economic-social-ecological triple-bottom-line used by business.
I took that test a while ago and in a similar one I scored a little more “off center”.
Did I miss someone or am I really the most “lower left” person so far?
Interesting.
Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.03
Right about where I’d expect to be, though I’d have to say many of these questions are designed to push people to the left by creating a false binary choice.
Examples:
Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged.
The businessman and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist.
In criminal justice, punishment should be more important than rehabilitation.
In a civilised society, one must always have people above to be obeyed and people below to be commanded.
The makers of that site openly admit that many of the questions are slanted one way or another on purpose. However I suspect that everybody is just more offended by questions which try to push him towards the opposite of his original direction.
Equally manipulative questions in favor of one’s opinion just don’t stand out that much.
Looks like me and Milty boy can hang out anytime. These questions are a bit simplistic though for any real sort of comparison.
Eugenics? Is this seriously a question in today’s political culture?
And what is with “Mothers may have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers.” Certainly the first duty of a mother should be to her children (over a career), but this is just as true of fathers.