Where do people think I stand? :P I will post the result soon... My result will shock and surprise! :D

A dot in purple.

How do you post image links?

I scored about as I expected.

John, I always knew you're a communist at heart! >:O

Never denied it. You lean that way yourself it seems, and somewhat more authoritarian too, which is no surprise.
:P

Yeah - and I never scored heavily on the Right either in the past when I took it. And never heavily authoritarian or heavily libertarian. I did sometimes score even heavier on the left though in the past.

My preferred economic system would be distributism - lots of independent, small producers - and no large multinational corporations. With focus on family and culture, rather than economics. Nowadays, a large part of our identity is an economical one - what job do you have and how much you earn. That's wrong. So I'm economically liberal towards the small guy, economically authoritarian towards the big guy, and socially authoritarian towards everyone on key issues with regards to the family. Oh, and I'm environmentally friendly too.

I don't disagree with anything much of what you say, except I am not much of a family guy.

Yeah that is a significant difference I think.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=-3.88&soc=-4.92

Though I generally despise details which are supposed to say something about someone, if these assessments would be mandatory in everyone's profile picture, a lot of the communication here would become more efficient.

Dead center in the first and business conservative in the second. Neither seem all that useful.

I think the first one is quite useful since it separates the economic aspects (right vs left) and the social attitudes (authoritarian vs libertarian). Economically it seems most people here are on the left, and socially it seems they are very libertarian.

.http://www.people-press.org/quiz/political-typology/results/


https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=-4.5&soc=-2.67

I am surprised you scored dead center, it seemed to me you are particularly right leaning.

A lot of those questions I disputed, because there was no good answer. I would describe myself variously as a classical liberal, constitutional conservative, neoconservative, and social conservative. Whether that is "particularly right leaning," I don't know.

Well most people think I'm right-leaning too, but that's because I'm a social conservative, but I support left-leaning economic policies (anti-corporatism). People associate religious views with the right.

These things are never very accurate for me, because I always have serious problems with the questions. Usually the vast majority of the questions read as poorly in my opinion as "Did you stop beating your wife last Saturday night?"

At any rate:

Last time I checked I was a classical liberal.

I agree with the remarks here regarding that first test -- the questions are indeed loaded and a bit off.

So I did another one :D



And I get this knob:


http://uk.isidewith.com/

http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html


edit: But no matter what political test I do, I always end up with the Green Party at the bottom.

In this way it doesn't make any difference whether the questions make sense or not: If conservatives consistently answer poorly constructed questions in a certain way, and liberals consistently answer the same questions in a different way, the test will work.

The New York Times published some maps this morning showing how the popularity of a bunch of TV programs were very closely correlated with voting patterns in the recent election. The concept works because it tends to be the case that a majority of people in a census tract tend to like the same TV programs and they also like the same candidates. The programs (and the candidates) might be dog shit, but that doesn't matter for purposes of prediction.

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory asks somewhat meaningingless questions that by and large don't suggest anything at all, but people with (and without) psychiatric diagnoses tend to answer the questions in a predictable way. That's all that's necessary.

Well, although I've taken those tests a number of times and I'm pretty sure that I don't consistently answer the questions. (Well, most of the questions, that is, The handful that are unambiguous and well-constructed I answer consistently.)

Very similar to my previous ones...

I've always been confused about the UK parties, so I did that one, too:

You might as well not vote at all.

I never vote(d) for anything except when I ran myself for something :P Most of the time, I feel 1 vote is too little to make a difference, so I can't be bothered much. Either that, or the candidates running aren't all that different. If I was in the US, I would have voted Trump this time - but that's an exception. I wouldn't have voted Romney for example in Obama vs Romney. I wouldn't even have gone to vote. Same for Obama/McCain.

While we are doing test anyway.

How many five-year-olds children can you take on?

http://www.nerdtests.com/mq/uttake.php?id=109440

My results were 28 children.