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This makes it too easy for people to duck difficult issues. By forcing people to take a positive or negative stance, the propositions make people really evaluate their feelings. Often people find they wanted to select 'don't know' mainly because they'd never really thought about the idea.
That's lame. First off, if the President of the United States of America can answer a question with the phrase "I have no earthly idea" (this is exactly what he said), I think people taking this test should be able to do the same. A lot of people don't have feelings about certain issues anyways or they're on the fence. Second, the makers of this test seem to have too much faith in people. I doubt most people who come across statements they don't know how to answer to are going to take the time to "really evaluate their feelings." They're going to pick whatever answer pops into their head first and move on because they want to see their test results (which also contributes to its potential inaccuracy). At the same time, people might be just as lazy if they had the option "I don't know." Still, I think the test would work better with such an option.
But most of the questions pretty well conceived, IMO. For instance, the question on abortion states that unless it threatens the women's life, it should always be illegal. the way I interpret that is if I tick "Strongly agree" I'm saying that taht is absolutely right, no exceptions, and if you just click agree you might have reservations but generally agree.
True. Still, there are a couple that, depending on the person, could potentially be double-sided. For example, the question with the Marx quote. I garauntee that question greatly effects your communist/anarchist leanings. But my stances on communism/socialism in theory and in practice are complete opposites. I'll also just come out and say I think anarchy is retarded. I agree that the majority of the questions are well-conceived but some of them are strong enough to throw off your results based on answers not taken in context.
Meh... Food for thought. It's an interesting and somewhat fun test. I just have a bad habit of taking things apart like this, hehe.
True. Still, there are a couple that, depending on the person, could potentially be double-sided. For example, the question with the Marx quote. I garauntee that question greatly effects your communist/anarchist leanings. But my stances on communism/socialism in theory and in practice are complete opposites. I'll also just come out and say I think anarchy is retarded. I agree that the majority of the questions are well-conceived but some of them are strong enough to throw off your results based on answers not taken in context.
Meh... Food for thought. It's an interesting and somewhat fun test. I just have a bad habit of taking things apart like this, hehe.
Yeah, that's a good point. I've taken the test over 20 times over the course of the last 3 years (I started out being exactly where Sniper is now) so I know the questions almost by heart and I tend check the disagree box to the "each according to his ability...is fundamentally a good idea" because the implication seems to be "if socialism was viable we should employ it". It's like saying "Everybody being nice all the time is fundamentally a good idea." Yes, I agree, it is. But that doesn't mean I think we should force people to be nice through legislation.
So it might be a somewhat strategic answer on my part.
Same goes for the one where you have to choose between class and nationality, what separates people the most. The implication of choosing class could be socialist tendencies, whilst clicking nationality imbues you with an air of authoritarianism.
"The Flux capacitor. It's what makes time travel possible."
I'm in the bottom left too. It looks like we've got the conservatives well and truly out numbered. So I say lets throw diplomacy out the window and go in for the kill.
I also found a link to this site on the political compass's FAQ. It has grouped and listed the world's "best" democracies in terms of civil liberties, corruption, press freedom, human rights and rule of law.
If the UK is in number 9 in the world, then God help democracy. It's been like living under a totalitarian regime with nu-Labour in charge.
The problem I have with the test is that personal politics are a different matter to Governmental politics in my opinion.
Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -3.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82
I'm a Libertarian and believe in the people having the freedom to choose, however I know from experience that a large percentage of people simply do not have the mental faculties to be able to live like that. The more liberal some things get, the more the cry for strict moral standards from the other side.
It also is not a very useful barometer for voting, as in England all the major parties are Thatcherites in terms of Economics. There is simply no way to vote for parties in a General Election that represent your views. Hence increasing apathy with the political system.
For me the greatest political thinker remains Karl Marx. I think turbo-captalism's effect on all levels of society, with people valuing money above all human considerations shows how right he was when he said that the inevitable outcome of Capitalism is to enslave humanity.
Global Corporations can now decide World wide policies with the strength of their money and can even control everything that the general populaces sees, reads and hence thinks.
It's galling to me that, in a time like no other, when we have the ability to communicate with each other and to learn new ideas, educational standards, artistic standards and standards of behaviour are dropping to a deplorable level.
We treat news of corruption and murder as disposable entertainment and allow grave injustices that we all know about to happen on a daily basis.
It's time that all the decent people across the world came together under a single political movement and put an end to the mess once and for all.
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