[CLUE-Talk] Political compass

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 11-03 06:56, Jeffery Cann wrote:
> Here's an interesting anonymous survey to determine
> where you stand in the political arena.  Good
> questions, designed to evoke responses.  It plots your
> responses on two axes, economic and social, and gives
> some example historical figures for each quadrant for
> reference.
> 
> http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/index.html
>  
> I ended up in the 'Libertarian Left' quadrant (Gandi,
> Dali Lama, Nelson Mandela) - not surprising if you've
> read my posts here. :)
> 
> Economic Left/Right: -2.00 
> Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08
> 
> If your bored at work take it and post your results. 
> I'm curious to see how other CLUEbies rate - I suspect
> a lot of us (by our interest in Linux) may end up on
> the Libertarian side.  But, you never know.

Heh. I gotta wonder about this test. First of all, I *really* wonder what
the question about attention span, and how they perceived that as putting
someone to the right or left or libertarian/authoritarian. I mean, is that
really a left vs. right thing? I've seen both the far left (Chomsky) and the
far right (numerous talk show hosts) decry just that very thing. In fact,
Chomsky has a word to describe the requirement to get an explanation of a
viewpoint or issue in under a few minutes. Anything that requires more
explanation will not be heard, and will probably be roundly dismissed as
kookdom. I forget the word - he mentions it in the movie Manufacturing
Consent.


Anyway, I ended up on the economic left(!) and libertarian scale...landing
almost right next to Chretian - Canada's answer to Dan Quayle. I demand a
recount. Or a better test.

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