I found an decent test in the internet - http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
It's not an perfect test but it's not bad either. They classify you in two axis, one for social liberty and other for economical liberty. I think it's an nice test cause we cna know each other and the community a little btter, from a political point of view!
Heres my result:
I think i should be 1 or 2 cells left... I'm neoliberalism defender, but i'm much more open minded about income distribution and social program then most neoliberals. But I guess those people are were Friedman's stands (one or two cells away from 100% Right). anyway, post your results if you if it pleases you!
I think modern politics doesn't allow itself to be so clearly divided into subsections though. That's why terms like "neoliberalism" came into being, which mean little more than "kinda liberal, but I have some different ideas".
I don't think this really accurately represents some things, for instance one question asked me "Mothers may have a career, but their primary role is as a homemaker" I picked strongly agree, but if there was a sub question with "same for Fathers if the mother works more?" I would have said yes. If taken as just that question I might seem like a dick who thinks all women must be in the kitchen making me a sandwich. That's not what I think. I feel as though the mother should work and instill our values on the children, and if the father wishes to do that instead and the mother wishes to work instead than it can switch, and if both want to not work equally or work equally as much, then one must make a sacrifice. so although, it might convey basic ideas I don't think it's a pure accurate representation.
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Some of the questions seemed way too obvious for me and others required more of a middle ground response. So yeah it's not that accurate. I'm a person who believes in personal freedom and liberty but I also believe in the efficiency and overall value of government. But when I speak of government in that way I usually am referring to the administrative state, the bureaucrats who actually make government work. Not politicians in Congress and other elected bodies. I think I was hoping to score a little more authoritarian. LOL
I don't think this really accurately represents some things, for instance one question asked me "Mothers may have a career, but their primary role is as a homemaker" I picked strongly agree, but if there was a sub question with "same for Fathers if the mother works more?" I would have said yes. If taken as just that question I might seem like a dick who thinks all women must be in the kitchen making me a sandwich. That's not what I think. I feel as though the mother should work and instill our values on the children, and if the father wishes to do that instead and the mother wishes to work instead than it can switch, and if both want to not work equally or work equally as much, then one must make a sacrifice. so although, it might convey basic ideas I don't think it's a pure accurate representation.
This is why you got to interpret the questions. The question specify "mothers" not " one parents". You have to adopt Logics mind set to take this test, if he asks: "should women wear hats?" they are not asking if if it's ok for women to wear hats but if you think women should use hats all time as sort of universal rule of conduct.
The test is not perfecly accurate because you might 've an opnion that deviates from you political matrix. What he tryes to do here is ask a few principle questions to see your aligment with certain major ideas that is the base for certain school of though and moral.
Ex 1: when he asks "do you believe in luck?". If you say yes you're get left wings points and if you say no you get right wing points. At first glance that sounds illogical, but believing in "luck" means 're less inclined in believing in tabula rasa, which is a fundamental concept of right wing liberalism and kind accepted in other right wings phylosophies, while rejected in many left wing schools.
As I said, it's not a perfect test, but it gives a good idea, at least for me.
I think modern politics doesn't allow itself to be so clearly divided into subsections though. That's why terms like "neoliberalism" came into being, which mean little more than "kinda liberal, but I have some different ideas".
This is why you got to interpret the questions. The question specify "mothers" not " one parents". You have to adopt Logics mind set to take this test, if he asks: "should women wear hats?" they are not asking if if it's ok for women to wear hats but if you think women should use hats all time as sort of universal rule of conduct.
What? That's ridiculous. Shouldn't the response to a survey be as unadulterated as possible. If you're try too hard to anticipate the context of the question then you're not really providing your most natural response, right?
This is why some of the questions are worded poorly. Because when people do take surveys they should answer what first comes to their mind. And the more people have issues with the survey in retrospect due to the ambiguity or lack of alternative then that's an indication that it's a poor survey.
I would take it but no test gives an accurate answer for my political stance. The majority of my opinions in politics are usually situational. And these tests don't really give me a situation so I go neutral.
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This is why you got to interpret the questions. The question specify "mothers" not " one parents". You have to adopt Logics mind set to take this test, if he asks: "should women wear hats?" they are not asking if if it's ok for women to wear hats but if you think women should use hats all time as sort of universal rule of conduct.
What? That's ridiculous. Shouldn't the response to a survey be as unadulterated as possible. If you're try too hard to anticipate the context of the question then you're not really providing your most natural response, right?
It depends. This rule exist for survey of personal confrotation (usually personality/psychology surveys). Thats not the case. Thinking is oftenly needed when it comes down to express your personal moral system... Majority of question that evolves economics, politics and morals need reflexion to be answered accuractely, because those things belongs to the realm of reason, not instinct or behavior. The "most natural answer" usually will not properly weight the consequencies of your position thous not expressing what you really think about certain subject. "Should social insurance exist?", how can you answer that without thinking about the consequencies of it's existance ?
I understand one cannot fully weight all consequencies of certain norm (ignorance exist). But taking your time to answer questions will possibly reduce the unwanted ignorance, not increase it.
There are some really bad questions, i agree. One terrible question is the terrorism one... Theres no terrorism where I live, how am I suppose to answer that ?
And yeh, the lack of neutral option seens wrong too. But I think they might have an technical reason against neutral questions...
Not that accurate. I'm more authoritarian. But as usual people confuse authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
Why do you see yourself as an authoritarian ?
I'm not trying to confront you, it's that this is the second time i see someone making this complaint about the test. I've the feeling their "authoritarian" view is way too contextualized, so some authoritarian people will disagree with the test form of authoritarism, not because they disagree with authoristarism itself, but because they disagree with the subject of context.
It's not an perfect test but it's not bad either. They classify you in two axis, one for social liberty and other for economical liberty. I think it's an nice test cause we cna know each other and the community a little btter, from a political point of view!
Heres my result:
I think i should be 1 or 2 cells left... I'm neoliberalism defender, but i'm much more open minded about income distribution and social program then most neoliberals. But I guess those people are were Friedman's stands (one or two cells away from 100% Right). anyway, post your results if you if it pleases you!
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Eh seems about right. There's a lot of questions where I felt a deeper answer would have been better than a strong no, no, yes, strong yes.
This is why you got to interpret the questions. The question specify "mothers" not " one parents". You have to adopt Logics mind set to take this test, if he asks: "should women wear hats?" they are not asking if if it's ok for women to wear hats but if you think women should use hats all time as sort of universal rule of conduct.
The test is not perfecly accurate because you might 've an opnion that deviates from you political matrix. What he tryes to do here is ask a few principle questions to see your aligment with certain major ideas that is the base for certain school of though and moral.
Ex 1: when he asks "do you believe in luck?". If you say yes you're get left wings points and if you say no you get right wing points. At first glance that sounds illogical, but believing in "luck" means 're less inclined in believing in tabula rasa, which is a fundamental concept of right wing liberalism and kind accepted in other right wings phylosophies, while rejected in many left wing schools.
As I said, it's not a perfect test, but it gives a good idea, at least for me.
Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.28
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
This is why some of the questions are worded poorly. Because when people do take surveys they should answer what first comes to their mind. And the more people have issues with the survey in retrospect due to the ambiguity or lack of alternative then that's an indication that it's a poor survey.
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It depends. This rule exist for survey of personal confrotation (usually personality/psychology surveys). Thats not the case. Thinking is oftenly needed when it comes down to express your personal moral system... Majority of question that evolves economics, politics and morals need reflexion to be answered accuractely, because those things belongs to the realm of reason, not instinct or behavior. The "most natural answer" usually will not properly weight the consequencies of your position thous not expressing what you really think about certain subject. "Should social insurance exist?", how can you answer that without thinking about the consequencies of it's existance ?
I understand one cannot fully weight all consequencies of certain norm (ignorance exist). But taking your time to answer questions will possibly reduce the unwanted ignorance, not increase it.
There are some really bad questions, i agree. One terrible question is the terrorism one... Theres no terrorism where I live, how am I suppose to answer that ?
And yeh, the lack of neutral option seens wrong too. But I think they might have an technical reason against neutral questions...
Why do you see yourself as an authoritarian ?
I'm not trying to confront you, it's that this is the second time i see someone making this complaint about the test. I've the feeling their "authoritarian" view is way too contextualized, so some authoritarian people will disagree with the test form of authoritarism, not because they disagree with authoristarism itself, but because they disagree with the subject of context.