# Rating from right to left

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rating-from-right-to-left/919172>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rating-from-right-to-left/919172 "2020-08-27T18:32:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rating-from-right-to-left/919172/1 "2020-08-27T18:32:01Z")

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I was looking for some kind of statistics on how many people would fall into different degrees of political bias. For example starting from the left there were 8 classifications for your degree of being on the left or the right of center. And a list of the things that put them in that classification. Any suggestions on what I might search?

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rating-from-right-to-left/919172/2 "2020-08-29T11:59:57Z")

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Is it by any chance the [8 values](https://8values.github.io/) that you’re thinking of?

I got that link out of the comments in this video:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ULYWIDcUOY4/maxresdefault.jpg "America's Stunted Political Spectrum") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULYWIDcUOY4)

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rating-from-right-to-left/919172/3 "2020-08-29T12:22:17Z")

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I have an issue with that video.

It says the likes of Kim Jong Un, Mao, Mugabe and Stalin are leftists.

They aren’t leftists. They claimed to be leftists but they were dictators.

That is a very different thing.

That said, the ranking system is widely used and may well be what the OP is looking for.

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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rating-from-right-to-left/919172/4 "2020-08-29T14:51:54Z")

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There is also [The Political Compass](https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2)

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**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rating-from-right-to-left/919172/5 "2020-08-29T20:25:29Z")

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Hey, I like that! It’s going into my personality test collection. It says I’m like Gandhi, only more so.