# Yet Another Political Spectrum Quiz **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/21 "2011-10-14T18:42:06Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Social Liberal > You scored 65% Personal Liberty and 24% Economic Liberty! > > Had to leave several questions blank due to wording. Hmm. I didn’t realize I could have left questions blank or I would have. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/22 "2011-10-14T19:46:41Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Hmm. I didn’t realize I could have left questions blank or I would have. Yeah, some polls don’t, this one does. Good thing. In polls designed to see where you fit on a sliding scale, a “No” to any question is generally going to imply a “Yes” to an inversely worded question… but that can be awfully ambiguous. Which of these is the inverse of “The federal government should subsidize our small farms”? What will the pollster assume? • The federal government should not subsidize our small farms • Our small farms should not be subsidized by the federal government • Subsidies from our federal government should not go towards our small farms • The federal farm subsidies should not go to small farms • The small farm subsidies should not be the responsibility of the federal government etc ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/23 "2011-10-14T20:04:45Z")
Statist (38% Personal Liberty and 31% Economic Liberty). Sounds about right. (I’m Canadian, though.) ---
**Author:** ![geneb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@geneb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geneb)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/24 "2011-10-14T21:26:39Z")
Centrist You scored 52% Personal Liberty and 52% Economic Liberty! Seems about right. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/25 "2011-10-14T22:13:27Z")
Centrist. That surprised me, as a lifelong Republican who’s pretty far to the right on most issues. I split with my party on almost all social choice issues though (sexual orientation\*, abortion, religion, etc.) Perhaps that’s what pulls me to the center ? \*“choice” meaning who someone sleeps with, not their internal orientation. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/26 "2011-10-14T23:44:50Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I lost any respect for this questionnaire at about the fourth spelling error. The big brain am winning again. I am the greetest! Now I am leaving Earth forever for no raisin. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/27 "2011-10-15T02:50:02Z")
I highly doubt that the results of this test mean anything at all. The questions were poorly-phrased, so that frequently none of the responses were appropriate. Misspellings and odd grammar were rampant. It looked like the questions had been written by a high-school student. The description of my result says that “some Paleo-liberals may lean towards embracing capitalism as an economic system.” Really? I’m a textbook capitalist. I own my own business and work freelance. I might “lean toward embracing capitalism”? It’s almost as if the test had been created by a dating site instead of some kind of political or economic research team. Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/28 "2011-10-15T02:52:21Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > 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: So, keep retaking the test until you get the answer you want? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/29 "2011-10-15T03:03:55Z")
Paleo-Liberal 76/42 That sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/30 "2011-10-15T03:09:54Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > So, keep retaking the test until you get the answer you want? No I just didn’t bother differentiating between “Strongly Agree/Disagree” and simply “Agree/Disagree”. And obviously some issues like abortion and outright socialization of the economy definately made me got “Strongly Agree/Disagree”. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/31 "2011-10-15T04:26:17Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > No I just didn’t bother differentiating between “Strongly Agree/Disagree” and simply “Agree/Disagree”. So you kept retaking the test until you agreed with the results? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/32 "2011-10-15T04:44:29Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > So you kept retaking the test until you agreed with the results? No, I made a mistake the first time I took it. If I’d gotten the same result the second time I’d suppose there’s something wrong with me or with the quiz or both. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/33 "2011-10-15T05:22:13Z")
I came up as a social liberal, which is absurd, as everyone who knows me knows that I’m an antisocial liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/34 "2011-10-15T06:35:23Z")
Neo-Liberal You scored 51% Personal Liberty and 22% Economic Liberty! A neo-liberal believes in moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate to high government intervention on economic matters. They believe in a social safety net or welfare state and try to balance personal liberty with safety or security. The test is wonky. I picked every anti-military answer available, and it says I support foreign intervention. I picked several pro-capitalist answers, and still got 22% in economics. And Qin got centrist? Puh-leaze ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/35 "2011-10-15T08:55:29Z")
Social Liberal You scored 60% Personal Liberty and 27% Economic Liberty! Yeah, pretty much. The questions sucked wind, as they fail to distinguish between, say, my recognition of certain social and economic realities and my belief that sometimes you gotta take the hit for the common good. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/36 "2011-10-15T09:40:31Z")
Labels are for squares, man. I don’t think I’d understand whatever it was I ended up with anyway. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/37 "2011-10-15T11:26:26Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Social Liberal > > You scored 60% Personal Liberty and 27% Economic Liberty! > > Yeah, pretty much. The questions sucked wind, as they fail to distinguish between, say, my recognition of certain social and economic realities and my belief that sometimes you gotta take the hit for the common good. Huh. I’m barely different than you, but I got a different label. Neo-Liberal You scored 56% Personal Liberty and 27% Economic Liberty! ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/38 "2011-10-15T16:23:09Z")
Social Liberal, not surprisingly. 65% Personal Liberty and 32% Economic Liberty. It kinda sucks that this virtual SAT test (150+ questions?!!) was a stealth way of getting us to sign up for OKCupid. **Qin** , you don’t work for them, do you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/39 "2011-10-15T17:00:47Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Social Liberal, not surprisingly. 65% Personal Liberty and 32% Economic Liberty. It kinda sucks that this virtual SAT test (150+ questions?!!) was a stealth way of getting us to sign up for OKCupid. **Qin** , you don’t work for them, do you? 😃 You could skip it, I’m incredibily uninterested in internet dating, but I do like all the quizzes there. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605/40 "2011-10-15T17:34:58Z")
Comes as no surprise to me: _“A libertarian believes in little to moderate government intervention on both personal and economic matters. They generally believe in a government that is small and limited to the extent of protecting people’s liberty. They tend to be opposed to war, police powers, victimless crimes, foreign intervention and what they consider to be a welfare state. They support both property rights and self-ownership.”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-political-spectrum-quiz/599605.md?page=3)