The Political Gauge. Take the test and see how you score.

So nobody’s matched or beat my 1 for non-fiscal? Wow.

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (28).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Conservative (62).

Sounds right.

oops just realized I already posted. I thought the first one never went through.

Being classified as a Centrist in this test and having very strong opinions are not necessarily a contradiction.

If you have strong opinions about issues that straddle the traditional left-right divide (e.g. if you’re strongly pro-gun and strongly pro-choice), your average score on the test comes out somewhere in the middle. This is what happened in my case also.

To be more informative, the test should report the variance of your score in each category (not just the mean). Or even, for each category (Fiscal/Non-fiscal), a plot of the distribution of your responses. This would reveal much more about the person than two numbers.

Oh, fess up. You fiscal moderate conservatives always have to get your word in twice. :smiley:

I’ve taken it several times taking the wording of the questions a little differently each time.

Even though the numbers changed slightly, the overall assessment was the same each time:

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (25).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Conservative (80).

I’m another one of the crossoverers. I note that with a few points in each direction I could’ve ended up in the ‘strong’ section of each category.

Nice, thanks

Not that it will come as a big shock, but there seems to be a lot more dots on the left than the right…and a larger concentration in the lower left than anywhere else. Just an observation.

-XT

I noted this as well. I found myself sort of lonely in the SE quadrant.

Great work on the chart, Sam.

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Centrist (40).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Conservative (74).

Just to keep the work load up for people doing the chart work. :slight_smile:

No surprises there.

My main thought is about what the tax cut religion has done to the language. Being for balanced budgets, fiscal soundness and prudence makes me a moderate liberal, fiscally speaking. Pre-Reagan, that would have put me in the heart of the GOP Establishment.

Great scatter plot, btw. Seems like we’ve got a pretty good spread of positions here, although the dearth of points in the lower right quadrant (fiscally liberal, socially conservative) should surprise nobody here.

Apparently, Bush is not an SDMB member and has not taken the test. :slight_smile:

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (5).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (33).

Hmmm…honestly very surprising to me. I’d like to see their methodology.

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (16).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Centrist (50).

That seems about right, although I didn’t like that the pro-gun stance was tagged non-fiscally conservative. I think it would’ve been better if the non-fiscal section was based on government intervention, but I’ll just be glad they didn’t ask about Affirmative Action.

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (23).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Conservative (82).

Much more appropriate questions than the Compass. I wanted to select two answers often, but went with the harsher one.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Centrist (42).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Conservative (75).

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (9).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (28).

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (39).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Centrist (46).

Not quite what I expected.

Problem is that WRT non-fiscal, I have some rather conservative views WRT my own behavior, but I favor keeping the public nose out of private business, even when it means having things I do not approve be perfectly legal. On fiscal issues, I think of myself is moderately liberal - so long as budgets are balanced. :slight_smile: I’m even willing to give credit for a good try at it, but blithely running deficits infuriates me.

Yes, Tygerbryght, that’s why I wound up as centrist. I don’t have to like something to want it legal. But it does mean, for all intents and purposes, I vote with the centrists.