A good exercise to start off with here... (9 Viewers)

"It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society."

Can I make this my sigline? LOL

Lazybones said:

I’m with you it just seems to me that everyone would put strongly agree to the human side. Which in my opinion is the reason for the overwhelming leftist scores. I think it is set up that way purposely to skew the outcome.

If the question was how important is a healthy economy in a global market compared to social welfare, you would get a much different answer.

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No, because "healthy economy" is in the eye of the beholder. Hint: The view is different depending on where/who you are. "Social welfare" is a buzzword used to justify to separate treatment - people who deserve versus people who don't. Don't all people deserve to be treated like humans? Then don't support legislation that does otherwise. Simple decency vs hypocrisy.

Sharon said:

No, because "healthy economy" is in the eye of the beholder. Hint: The view is different depending on where/who you are. "Social welfare" is a buzzword used to justify to separate treatment - people who deserve versus people who don't. Don't all people deserve to be treated like humans? Then don't support legislation that does otherwise. Simple decency vs hypocrisy.

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I decided to do some research on the origin of this model. I am not surprised of my findings. Pace news limited has a ton of mystery and very left leaving alliances. The main guy it appears is a social justice guy. Not saying he is a bad guy, just slanted.

I do love my gut, very rarely lets these lazybones down.

So, dismiss that which makes you uncomfortable. I think that was one option on the questions - just think happy thoughts?

I think this one pushed me further towards authoritarian, but too bad:

"Schools should not make classroom attendance compulsory."

Oh yes they should.

I am thinking that I answered too many of the questions with agree or disagree instead of the "strongly" options. It may have skewed the results somewhat. I also believe that many of the statements were poorly worded, allowing for too much nuance.

Saint by the Bay said:

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Just as I suspected, you are even more conservative than I am.

Richard said:

Just as I suspected, you are even more conservative than I am.

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We’re pretty close though. I’ve been shocked at some of the people this finds me to the right of. I think it may be because I Strongly Agree on a lot of conservative economic and national defense principles.

Saint by the Bay said:

We’re pretty close though. I’ve been shocked at some of the people this finds me to the right of. I think it may be because I Strongly Agree on a lot of conservative economic and national defense principles.

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I think so too. We are probably closer on the actual spectrum that the graphs indicated. Even when I might have chosen Strongly Agree to the basic question, I clicked Agree due to factors I was reading into the question. One example I recall is that I am personally against the death penalty, however I do not think it should eliminated from the penal code. In other words, I don't always believe that my personal beliefs should be codified just because I believe them, if that makes any sense.

I did feel like the majority of the questions were 'well duh' for me. Funny thing is that id probably still be a moderate in many European countries.

Lazybones said:

I decided to do some research on the origin of this model. I am not surprised of my findings. Pace news limited has a ton of mystery and very left leaving alliances. The main guy it appears is a social justice guy. Not saying he is a bad guy, just slanted.

I do love my gut, very rarely lets these lazybones down.

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So, since you’re in research mode, can you find a different test for us to take? So we can compare and contrast?

Sharon said:

No, because "healthy economy" is in the eye of the beholder. Hint: The view is different depending on where/who you are. "Social welfare" is a buzzword used to justify to separate treatment - people who deserve versus people who don't. Don't all people deserve to be treated like humans? Then don't support legislation that does otherwise. Simple decency vs hypocrisy.

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I agree with you. But it’s the same message with a different twist. It’s a loaded comparison.

RobF said:

It's interesting to plot the responses to see the results altogether (there's a 'build your own chart' link on the political compass site). So here's a MAP map:

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Updated the collated MAP map with the additional responses (41 in total now).

MT15 said:

So, since you’re in research mode, can you find a different test for us to take? So we can compare and contrast?

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I very well may. Don’t hold me to it. Lol

So I found this one and for the most part seems objective. There where a few I questioned. As far as the company, I haven’t found anything that shows bias one way or the other, unlike the other quiz.

I’m not advocating this quiz or this company, but of the 4 that I looked at, this seemed the most legit.

Lazybones said:

So I found this one and for the most part seems objective. There where a few I questioned. As far as the company, I haven’t found anything that shows bias one way or the other, unlike the other quiz.

I’m not advocating this quiz or this company, but of the 4 that I looked at, this seemed the most legit.

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Did you forget the link, or are you vetting?

JRad said:

Did you forget the link, or are you vetting?

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I forgot it.