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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Drew on February 09, 2004, 10:13:28 pm
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http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html
just to see how u all rate, to see what im dealing with here.
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40% 40%
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3 way tie between centrist, left libral, and libertarian
classafied as Centrists
Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Economic Self-Government Score is 50%.
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I'm Left Liberal. How surprising.
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:eek: no way!
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Hehe, I had him pegged all along. Hehe.
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Well, actually, I'm right on the border between centrist and left liberal and leaning a bit toward authoritarian.
The quiz is rather limited though.
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Left Liberal.
Welcome to the Party comrade mikhael. Normally, you would choose an appropriate name to go in line with your new acceptance of the socialist ideals, but I see you've already got one. Nicely done.
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"The quiz is rather limited though."
realy, its got all of ten questions, surely that would be enough to run an in depth analasis of one's pollitical philosophy
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I hope that's sarcasm, Bob.
Rictor: careful of your assumptions.
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yes, I thought it was rather blairing sarcasm, but that tends to be the times when no one picks it up
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Woohoo, im a Left Liberal! 90%, 30%
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According to your answers, your political philosophy is centrist.
Your Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 50%.
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it didn't even come close.
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According to the quiz, I'm Albanian.
Maybe I did something wrong.
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Rush Limbaugh would be a Centrist according to this quiz.
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sounds close
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Your Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 70%.
it called me a libertarian, i'm insulted to be associated with a group that believes in legalizing drugs and other bull**** - second closest is centrist, which sounds better
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80% 10%
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Originally posted by Kazan
Your Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 70%.
it called me a libertarian, i'm insulted to be associated with a group that believes in legalizing drugs and other bull**** - second closest is centrist, which sounds better
I think that means libertarian with a little L as opposed to Liberatarian with a big L. One thing I've noticed is that the farther you go down a political bias, the more out there they get and they start capitalising the names. The Big-Letter sorts (Libertarians, Socialists, Communists, Democrats, Republicans, Greens, etc) are all freaks. The less extreme versions (libertarian, socialist, communist, democrat, republican, green, etc) are all palatable--at least to me.
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I classify as left-liberal too......It's the second highest scoring group, so I'm not surprised.
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Originally posted by mikhael
I'm Left Liberal. How surprising.
I wasn't suprised to find myself there either.
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Left Liberal (70%, 20%). Yeah, sounds about right.
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Centrist. Wau. I feel so original.
Edit: Just did the compass one, again. Bigger is better when it comes to political tests and warships. [And Inferno's R1 :nervous: ]
However.
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.49,
which makes me a libertarian leftist. Better that than the centrist.
Closest to Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, lol.
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Your Personal Self-Government Score is 90%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 40%.
I prefer the one at Politcal Compass, though.
http://politicalcompass.org/
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Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33
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Your Personal Self-Government Score is 50%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 30%.
Authoritarian-left-liberal-ish.
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Your Personal Self-Government Score is 10%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 90%.
I don't know why I got so low on the personal SG. ah well.
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HotSnoj: what were your answers
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Sounds about right to me, though obviously there are grey areas regarding many of the questions.
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Left-Liberal
Left-Liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and central decision-making on economics. They want government to serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality.
That's me all right.
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It's not true tho, I'm more of the right wing centrist.
But the questions were poorly chosen.
Military draft doesn't make you left or right wing :doubt:
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how very, very unsurprising.
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Originally posted by Kazan
HotSnoj: what were your answers
Mostly no's on the personal. Maybe that's it.
*leaves thread*
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Originally posted by mikhael
I'm Left Liberal. How surprising.
Me too. Had no idea until I took that. Hopefully this doesn't mean I have to get involved in argument threads too much (unless they're about Nintendo, natch)
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90%, 20%, which I guess is somewhat accurate.
left-liberal laizzes-faire
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So everyone is left liberal then? Anyone willing to admit to having answered the questions honestly and being scored as authoritarian?
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an0n hasnt taken the quiz yet
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Originally posted by kode
90%, 20%, which I guess is somewhat accurate.
left-liberal laizzes-faire
with a 20% on the finance you DO NOT believe in lazzeis faire -- you believe in the opposite
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Originally posted by Kazan
with a 20% on the finance you DO NOT believe in lazzeis faire -- you believe in the opposite
I said it was somewhat accurate, and then I stated where I stand some of the time. a lot of the time I think of stalinism as something that wasn't so bad.
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Libertarians are self-governors in both personal and economic matters. They believe government's only purpose is to protect people from coercion and violence. They value individual responsibility, and tolerate economic and social diversity.
Your Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 60%.
Not surprised. :D
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Originally posted by Kazan
with a 20% on the finance you DO NOT believe in lazzeis faire -- you believe in the opposite
will you please stop slaughtering that poor word, all of you?
"Laissez-faire", for god's sake, "laissez-faire"!
lazy fur :doubt:
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Lazslo's fare! :p
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Lucifer :p
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According to your answers, your political philosophy is on the border of left-liberal and libertarian.
For some of the questions they should have clarifications, such as the degree in which you believe the selected item.
However, for a short test on people's viewpoints in how they would be categorized in US politics, I can see why they chose these questions this way.
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I'm an Authoritarian Centrist. (the first bit is wrong, because I prefer as little govenrmental interference in personal affairs as possible).
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Centrist, 70% and 50%.
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Left libertarian 80/60. Nothing surprising.
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Your Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 100%.
Libertarians are self-governors in both personal and economic matters. They believe government's only purpose is to protect people from coercion and violence. They value individual responsibility, and tolerate economic and social diversity.
Personal and economic freedom. The only moral political belief.
~Beowulf
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Originally posted by Nico
will you please stop slaughtering that poor word, all of you?
"Laissez-faire", for god's sake, "laissez-faire"!
lazy fur :doubt:
I was unsure of the spelling, but google reassured me I could be right. that means a lot of germans can't spell.
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Originally posted by kode
I said it was somewhat accurate, and then I stated where I stand some of the time. a lot of the time I think of stalinism as something that wasn't so bad.
ok killing 55 million political dissenters is just fine according yto your statement
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Authoritarians want government to advance society and individuals through expert central planning. They often doubt whether self-government is practical. Left-authoritarians are also called socialists, while fascists are right-authoritarians.
Have I just been called a fascist?
:mad: :eek: :shaking:
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
Have I just been called a fascist?
:mad: :eek: :shaking:
by your self :p
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Libertarian, very near the border of liberal, on the first one.
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And about the same on the second, getting -3.25 on the Liberal/Conservative scale, and -3.69 on the Libertarian/Authoritarian scale.
Interestingly enough, this falls right about where I thought I did.
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hmm, haven't had alot of conservative results, even from people who I would have thought to be dyed in the wool Republicans (or whatever the equivalent is in your country, unless you live in Sweden, in which case there is no equivalent :D:D )
This either means the test is innacurate, portraying people as more left-wing then they really are, or there just aren't as many conservatives as various Conservative groups would have us believe. Or something.
Its intersting though that Liberterians share many beliefs with Conservatives (I mean the real kind, not the neocons), such as minimal government involvement in people's affairs and so forth.
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conservatives are mere louder, more offenseive, and more bigoted -- therefore more memorable. Conservative groups take advantage of this and try and trick people into subscribing to conservative groupthink
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Originally posted by Rictor
hmm, haven't had alot of conservative results, even from people who I would have thought to be dyed in the wool Republicans (or whatever the equivalent is in your country, unless you live in Sweden, in which case there is no equivalent :D:D )
This either means the test is innacurate, portraying people as more left-wing then they really are, or there just aren't as many conservatives as various Conservative groups would have us believe. Or something.
Its intersting though that Liberterians share many beliefs with Conservatives (I mean the real kind, not the neocons), such as minimal government involvement in people's affairs and so forth.
Naw. True conservatives are just that... conservative on the government level. Hence the close relationship to libertarians--like me.
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Originally posted by Rictor
This either means the test is innacurate, portraying people as more left-wing then they really are, or there just aren't as many conservatives as various Conservative groups would have us believe. Or something.
Some things to consider would be computer literacy and the other demographics for those able to take this test. I'd also say that as Beowulf pointed out, most actual conservatives would in this test have their views probably expressed as moderate libretarians. (Barring the modern Calvinists who consider themselves "conservative")
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computer literacy in the group is also a major issue.. very true
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or it could simply be that your so far in one direction people in the center appear to be exttreemists
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Originally posted by Kazan
conservatives are mere louder, more offenseive, and more bigoted -- therefore more memorable. Conservative groups take advantage of this and try and trick people into subscribing to conservative groupthink
Ouch.
According to this test, I am a leftist authoritarian, while in reality I am between centrist, liberatarian, and right wing conservative.
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Well, I wasn't reffering to my own idealogical measure, but rather to the test's scale. And from the people here, there hasn't been too many that have tested as Conservative, mostly Left or Centrist.
Though ofcourse, such a small and unscientific test is hardly an accurate measure.
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Originally posted by Kazan
ok killing 55 million political dissenters is just fine according yto your statement
yep.
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w00t, looks like I'm unique.
"Your Personal Self-Government Score is 30%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 60%.
Scores falling on the centrist border are counted as centrist."
Centrist, borderline conservative.. go me.. lol.
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All hail Ghostavo - or else.
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Try the one that Petrarch posted. It's a lot better. Interstingly I ended up more liberal and left wing than Ghandi :D
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I wonder if it's possible to be far-right, but extremely libertarian.
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In reality? No.
In terms of the bull**** political terminology this thing uses? Sure, you just gotta be more of a survivalist than a hippie.
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the one Petrarch posted, the questions seem a bit biased, wich I think would make most people come out more libral than they actualy are, but maybe that's just me, or maybe there suposed to be that way, so only people from an extreem would answer in certan ways on some questions.
but none the less, my results come out prety much the same
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Economic Left/Right: -0.50 (to the left)
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.00 (to libertarian)
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Originally posted by Bobboau
the one Petrarch posted, the questions seem a bit biased, wich I think would make most people come out more libral than they actualy are, but maybe that's just me, or maybe there suposed to be that way, so only people from an extreem would answer in certan ways on some questions.
That's cause you're on the left. In the FAQ they also say people on the far right also complained that the questions were biased in the rights favour. :D I guess it just depends on where you stand :)
If you thought the questions about, for instance racial intolerance, were extreme they explain the reasoning behind that in the FAQ. You can't find out how extreme people are unless you ask extreme questions. Seems like a fair point to me. There has to be a way to tell apart people on the christian right from someone like Torquemada. If you only asked moderate questions their results would be the same! :)
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Originally posted by Kazan
conservatives are mere louder, more offenseive, and more bigoted
:wtf: Surely that depends a lot on your perspective...
I think that once the conservatives on this board saw that everybody was posting liberal, they decided to refrain because they figured it'd instigate a flame war. They're probably right. :p
Nevertheless,
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*dons flame suit*
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no, I thought they sounded biased tward the left. if anything my being on the left would make the questions sound biased tward the right. the questions on racal tolorence I didn't think sounded biased, becase anyone with even a slight racal bias is an moron, I was talking about ones like...
"Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified."
"Those with the ability to pay should have the right to higher standards of medical care."
"What's good for the most successful corporations is always, ultimately, good for all of us." (nothing in particular, just the general tone of it)
but as I said it could just be me, I could just be picking ones out that stick out to me while lots of others I just agree with so much I don't even see.
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I don't understand half the economic and political jargon used well enough to answer the questions, having been out of the English-speaking political and economic scene for about 15 years now. ;)
EDIT: I think I should be where Goob is, more or less. Me != liberal. :D
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Originally posted by Bobboau
no, I thought they sounded biased tward the left. if anything my being on the left would make the questions sound biased tward the right. the questions on racal tolorence I didn't think sounded biased, becase anyone with even a slight racal bias is an moron, I was talking about ones like...
"Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified."
"Those with the ability to pay should have the right to higher standards of medical care."
"What's good for the most successful corporations is always, ultimately, good for all of us." (nothing in particular, just the general tone of it)
but as I said it could just be me, I could just be picking ones out that stick out to me while lots of others I just agree with so much I don't even see.
Like I said. They got just as many letters claiming they were biased to the right. Read their FAQ. It's quite interesting :)
As for the question about Military Action that defies international law. I came out as left wing as they come without being a communist yet still agreed with the comment :) The bias you see is not as clear cut as you may believe :)
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well that one was becase it was a libral talking point that was hammered into us for the last year or two
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Here's the bit I mean
Most of them are slanted ! Some right-wingers accuse us of a leftward slant. Some left-wingers accuse us of a rightward slant. But it's important to realise that this isn't a survey, and these aren't questions. They're propositions - an altogether different proposition. To question the logic of individual ones that irritate you is to miss the point. Some propositions are extreme, and some are more moderate. That's how we can show you whether you lean towards extremism or moderation on the Compass.
Some of the propositions are intentionally vague. Their purpose is to trigger buzzwords in the mind of the user, measuring feelings and prejudices rather than detailed opinions on policy.
Incidentally, our test is not another internet personality classification tool. The essence of our site is the model for political analysis. The test is simply a demonstration of it.
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Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64
I'm sitting right next to the Dalai Lama. I've been married to this woman for WAY too long. I used to far more centrist.
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Your Personal Self-Government Score is 40%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 10%.
Left-authoritarians are also called socialists
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Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03
Left - Libertarian....
Well I guess it kind of evens out a bit...
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more of the same for me
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Short - Long
EDIT: Yah, I realized that. Working on it, blasted webspace.
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you're going to have to take a screenshot for the second one to show up