# Yet Another Political Spectrum Quiz
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 14, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605 "2011-10-14T04:19:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/1 "2011-10-14T04:19:15Z")
[http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-politics-test](http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-politics-test)
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> Centrist
> You scored 49% Personal Liberty and 54% Economic Liberty!
> A centrist believes in moderate government intervention in both personal and economic matters. They tend to be somewhat ambiguous, as they may have the oppurtunity to pick the side of any group surrounding them on any given issue. They generally believe in a moderate social safety net and what they consider to be a balanced stance on personal liberty. Centrists tend to emphasize compromise and cooperation between partisan groups.
Be warned, to make sure you click strongly agree and disagree if you are because otherwise thing can be off-I originally got “Statist”. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/2 "2011-10-14T04:35:44Z")
Good God, someone needs to get a proofreader on that quiz, stat. Some of the questions looked like they’d been typed by someone randomly banging on a keyboard while blindfolded. And some were really strangely worded, too.
But anyway, I scored Social Liberal, no surprise there. 66% personal liberty, 27% economic liberty.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/3 "2011-10-14T04:38:58Z")
Sounds about right.
Paleo-Liberal
You scored 73% Personal Liberty and 40% Economic Liberty!
A paleo-liberal believes in low to moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate government intervention on economic matters. They tend to be opposed to war, police powers and victimless crimes. They believe in a social safety net, but to a lesser extent then most leftists. They generally believe in protecting personal liberty. They support self-ownership and privacy. Some Paleo-liberals may lean towards embracing capitalism as an economic system. Paleo-liberals are reminiscent of the attitude of the “new left” of the 60’s and 70’s. Strong Paleo-Liberals border on Libertarianism.
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### Author:  [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/4 "2011-10-14T04:59:19Z")
Hmph. I consider myself more of pure liberal than I scored. Probably because my economic knowledge is weak.
Civil Libertarian
83% Personal Liberty, 40% Economic Liberty
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/5 "2011-10-14T07:07:21Z")
Centrist
You scored 42% Personal Liberty and 46% Economic Liberty!
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/6 "2011-10-14T07:17:50Z")
I lost any respect for this questionnaire at about the fourth spelling error.
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### Author:  [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/7 "2011-10-14T07:44:36Z")
**Social Liberal**
\*\* You scored 71% Personal Liberty and 39% Economic Liberty!\*\*
A social liberal believes in little to moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate to high government intervention on economic matters. They tend to be opposed to war, police powers, victimless crimes, and what they may consider to be a corporate state or rogue capitalism. They generally support personal liberty and believe in a social safety net or welfare state. They support self-ownership and privacy. Social liberals are essentially the “mainstream” left and left of center.
This sounds about right for me, even though a number of the questions were strangely constructed.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/8 "2011-10-14T08:24:53Z")
160 questions? Pal, I’m not taking a test that long unless it helps me get into college.
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### Author:  [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/9 "2011-10-14T08:29:03Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#):
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> Be warned, to make sure you click strongly agree and disagree if you are because otherwise thing can be off-I originally got “Statist”. :rolleyes:
How is that off? Most people in the U.S. are statists. At least everyone who votes.
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/10 "2011-10-14T08:33:52Z")
> [@Alessan](#):
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> 160 questions? Pal, I’m not taking a test that long unless it helps me get into college.
Too bleeding right, especially as badly written as it was. :smack:
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### Author:  [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/11 "2011-10-14T11:19:08Z")
Paleo-Liberal
You scored 62% Personal Liberty and 51% Economic Liberty!
A paleo-liberal believes in low to moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate government intervention on economic matters. They tend to be opposed to war, police powers and victimless crimes. They believe in a social safety net, but to a lesser extent then most leftists. They generally believe in protecting personal liberty. They support self-ownership and privacy. Some Paleo-liberals may lean towards embracing capitalism as an economic system. Paleo-liberals are reminiscent of the attitude of the “new left” of the 60’s and 70’s. Strong Paleo-Liberals border on Libertarianism.
But that tesst was so apaulingly writen, I dout it’s verasity.
(Although the results are pretty much in line with my beliefs.)
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/12 "2011-10-14T11:41:13Z")
Social Liberal (67%/39%). Probably about right, as these questions go.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/13 "2011-10-14T12:47:03Z")
Paleo-Liberal.
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/14 "2011-10-14T15:10:57Z")
I could have tolerated the spelling errors, but many of the questions were plain stupid. And the results, I’ll guess, are just how one blogger chose to scored it, with no relation to any careful design or controlled experiment.
A fun thread for Dopers, perhaps in The Game Room, might be to design collectively a good political “test,” with clear intelligent questions.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/15 "2011-10-14T17:06:52Z")
Didn’t vote, too US-centric.
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### Author:  [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/16 "2011-10-14T17:28:09Z")
Centrist: 58% on personal liberty and 52% on economic liberty.
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### Author:  [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/17 "2011-10-14T17:28:14Z")
Libertarian (74% Social, 63% Economic)
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### Author:  [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/18 "2011-10-14T17:50:46Z")
Neo-Liberal
You scored 46% Personal Liberty and 28% Economic Liberty!
I am in Soviet Canuckistan.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/19 "2011-10-14T18:23:57Z")
Social Liberal
You scored 65% Personal Liberty and 24% Economic Liberty!
Had to leave several questions blank due to wording.
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### Author:  [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/20 "2011-10-14T18:37:37Z")
Social Liberal
65% Personal Liberty, 32% Economic Liberty
I had a problem with a lot of the absolute questions. For example,
“America should totally politically and financially support Israel under all circumstances.”
The short answer to this is “No,” America should not support Israel under ALL circumstances. I was unsure of how to answer this, since I am in general in favor of US support of Israel. But if Israel starting nuking children’s hospitals in the middle east region, I wouldn’t swear undying support to them. So I said “agree” and pretended the “under all circumstances” didn’t exist.
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