Is there a good political compass?
  • TiredThinker
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    Is there a good way to measure a person's political orientation? I took the test at politicalcompass.org and it set me left of center, and Trump, Bush, and Obama off to the right. Assuming this isn't a good measure, would all such tests be biased by the makers? Or can a good test exist to accurately depict a person's views?
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  • Pfhorrest
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    Wikipedia has a whole article on different varieties of them and the academic research (or lack thereof) backing them up:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum

    Another well-known one besides that political compass you linked is the Nolan Chart, which also has a quiz that will place you on it, but I won't link to it here because I think it's a poorly constructed and biased spectrum. Google "World's Smallest Political Quiz" if you really want to try it.

    I have a political spectrum of my own, inspired in part by both of the aforementioned, but with adjustments:

    political-spectrum.png
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  • _db
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    ↪Pfhorrest
    Really interesting diagram.
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  • Pfhorrest
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    ↪darthbarracuda
    Thanks!
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