Political Compass kind of fun!

**Rhiamon** · 04-20-2011, 05:37 PM

I found this political compass today took it and I should be voting for Gandhi or the Dali Lama!
The Political Compass

**pollypurebred39** · 04-20-2011, 07:28 PM

Very interesting, not sure what to make of my results.

**pat in east texas** · 04-20-2011, 08:21 PM

I'm a leftist libertarian - no surprise there!

**shoiji** · 04-21-2011, 12:27 PM

That was fun. Fortunately it came out the way I would have wanted it to.

**FrugalKate** · 04-21-2011, 05:26 PM

Going by the questions they asked that site seems to be a pretty slanted. They told me what I already knew - that I'm a Centrist.

**pollypurebred39** · 04-21-2011, 05:42 PM

I was surprised that the people that supposedly align with my political views I know very little about. But it clearly showed what my friends believe about me. My friends on the left think I'm on the right, and my friends on the right think I'm on the left.

I think it was an interesting test, but certainly required that you clearly understood what certain terms/policies/business practices are so as not to skew your results.

**Big Hoss** · 04-21-2011, 05:54 PM

I am very close to Pope Benedict it says. I am a national socialist so eh. These tests really can't tell you what you are.

**pollypurebred39** · 04-21-2011, 06:26 PM

Ummm...This can't be what you mean?

http://www.mhrn.org/publications/fac...efingpaper.pdf

**FrugalKate** · 04-21-2011, 06:59 PM

[QUOTE=pollypurebred39;1513115I think it was an interesting test, but certainly required that you clearly understood what certain terms/policies/business practices are so as not to skew your results.[/QUOTE]

I don't think that those certain terms/policies/business practices were very hard to understand at all. The way the questions were presented though certainly showed a certain slanted view point though

Ahhhh just as I suspected. the site is connected to "One World Action", a charity founded by Glenys Kinnock, and to Kinnock herself who was a Labour Party Member (a centre-left democratic socialist political party in the United Kingdom) of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2009. Before that, she was best known as the wife of Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992

**pollypurebred39** · 04-21-2011, 07:05 PM

I saw what you were talking about, what I was suggesting was that if you did not really read, and clearly understand said question(s) it was easy to be lead in a certain direction. Not everyone is on top of these things.

**FrugalKate** · 04-21-2011, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by pollypurebred39

I saw what you were talking about, what I was suggesting was that if you did not really read, and clearly understand said question(s) it was easy to be lead in a certain direction. Not everyone is on top of these things.

Still doesn't negate the fact that the site is indeed slanted towards a particular political view point. just sayin...

**Homekeepn** · 04-23-2011, 04:29 PM

I was in the green in Gandi's neighborhood. Who knew.

**KeithBC** · 04-23-2011, 05:05 PM

Glad to see I haven't changed.

**Daisygirl** · 04-23-2011, 06:22 PM

Keith - I was right there with you!

My results did not surprise me at all. But I do agree, Polly - if you aren't familiar with some of those terms, specifically the business ones, you results could easily be off!