Team Hammer's Musings: Hammertime, Right Wing Nut Job

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Hammertime, Right Wing Nut Job

Or am I?

With a scale of +10 being most 'right' economically and most authoritarian on social issues, I fell:

"Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.77 "

I actually fall very close to John Kerry on their chart...which makes me very suspicious of the creators.

Still, it's entertaining for five minutes.

Try it:
Political Compass

Hat Tip: Eric.

7 Comments:

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By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 10:35:00 AM
Hammer,

Man! I'd have dropped out of that political compass thing just from reading the first question:
"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations."...(lol...I don't think we need to "be suspicious" about the creators...I think we "know" where they stand.)
but I went ahead and finished it since it was on this blog.

Score:
Economic Left/Right: 6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian:
-1.90

By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 10:36:00 AM
Economic Left/Right: -4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77

I expected the economic one to be closer to zero or even slightly positive.

I don't know about the bias, they had questions worded differently, some biased one way and some another, probably a good idea to get a more accurate score.

Compare:
"Making peace with the establishment is an important aspect of maturity."
With:
"In a civilised society, one must always have people above to be obeyed and people below to be commanded."

Or better yet, compare:
"In criminal justice, punishment should be more important than rehabilitation."
With:
"It is a waste of time to try to rehabilitate some criminals."

By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 10:37:00 AM
Mark,

Yeah, those questions bothered me too. Like that "making peace" one...first we'd have to determine what kind of peace, because peace in and of itself is not always a good thing; then we'd have to determine what kind of "establishment" we were dealing with; then deal with the whole maturity thing. This was a terribly worded test altogether.

By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 10:37:00 AM
I find those kinds of questions annoying, but that doesn't mean it's a bad test. Purposefully asking the same question twice, once so it pushes you one way and once so it pushes you the other way seems like a reasonable way to put together something like this. My preferred answer for most of the questions was "it depends".

By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 10:38:00 AM
That's my big problem with this test was that there was no option to say "I could care less about this question because I'm a Rational Anarchist anyway". Okay, maybe they couldn't quite give that option, but how about a neutral answer?

By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 10:39:00 AM
Hammer,

This isn't about anything really...but your comment about googling a name inspired me to google my own. The fourth hit was a haloscan comment on your blog!! Don't you find that interesting?

By Anonymous, at 3/02/2005 10:39:00 AM