Take the 5-Dimension Political Compass Quiz!

 

shutterstock_113785711I’d wager most of us are at least aware of The World’s Smallest Political Quiz (in which my results are “90% Libertarian”, with the extra 10% coming from quibbles over definitions).

Today, my Facebook feed is full of links to “The 5-Dimension Political Quiz,” also described by some as the “World’s Strangest Political Quiz”.

Many of  the folk who have posted this link on Facebook are generally being satirical about the results it spits out, but I rather think the label it gave me is pretty accurate.

It seems to take quibbles over definitions more seriously, and it also takes into account the difference between the values one believe are “good”, and one’s positions on the proper role of government.

According to the quiz, I’m a — wait for it —

Right-Leaning Libertarian Non-Interventionist Traditionalist“.

I can find little substantive fault with that label.

Collectivism score: -33%

Authoritarianism score: -67%

Internationalism score: -33%

Tribalism score: 0%

Liberalism score: -17%

What are you? Take the quiz and find out!

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  1. Sabrdance Member
    Sabrdance
    @Sabrdance

    J Flei:It said I was a whig!?!?

    Old, Young, or American?

    • #121
  2. Carey J. Inactive
    Carey J.
    @CareyJ

    gts109:Yeah, I like my government small, except when it comes to killing foreigners. Really makes no sense, does it?

    Actually, there are many things government does which we prefer be done only to foreigners. Warrantless electronic surveillance comes to mind. We charge import duties, but the Constitution prohibits export duties.

    The worst kind of army is the one that’s not quite big enough or good enough to win wars. An army that loses wars is a complete waste of money.

    • #122
  3. Elephas Americanus Member
    Elephas Americanus
    @ElephasAmericanus

    You are a: Objectivist Libertarian Isolationist Nativist Reactionary 

    Collectivism score: -100%

    Authoritarianism score: -67%

    Internationalism score: -50%

    Tribalism score: 50%

    Liberalism score: -50%

    • #123
  4. Miffed White Male Member
    Miffed White Male
    @MiffedWhiteMale

    Conservative Libertarian Interventionist Ultranationalist Reactionary.

    Collectivism score: -67%
    Authoritarianism score: -50%
    Internationalism score: 17%
    Tribalism score: 83%
    Liberalism score: -67%

    I said Yes to the nuke ’em question.  I really would have preferred an answer somewhere between “Maybe” and “Yes” – “probably”?

    • #124
  5. Carey J. Inactive
    Carey J.
    @CareyJ

    AIG:I don’t get how this “quiz” works. Apparently you’re a “non-interventionist” even if you answer yes/maybe to all the foreign policy questions, except the one on nuking everyone.

    By that definition, even John McCain would be a “non-interventionist”.

    I dunno. I think McCain would probably nuke somebody, maybe a Tea Party convention.

    • #125
  6. Carey J. Inactive
    Carey J.
    @CareyJ

    Wylee Coyote:

    Conservative Anti-Government Cosmopolitan Traditionalist

    If I change my answer on the “Nuke ‘em all” question to “Yes”, that upgrades me from “Cosmopolitan” to “Nationalist”.

    Always wondered where that line was.

    I think “maybe” will get you the Nationalist label, too.

    • #126
  7. Carey J. Inactive
    Carey J.
    @CareyJ

    Kozak:

    AIG: AIG Joseph Stanko: kylez: What kind of a question is “we should just nuke other countries.”? Is that a position? Apparently, yes.

    I gave that a maybe…

    I did, too.

    • #127
  8. Carey J. Inactive
    Carey J.
    @CareyJ

    Tom Meyer, Ed.:

    Objectivist Libertarian Interventionist Ultranationalist Traditionalist

    A little overblown — objectivist? ultranationalist? srsly? — but not bad.

    You must have voted to nuke the [CoC]s, too.

    • #128
  9. tabula rasa Inactive
    tabula rasa
    @tabularasa

    Conservative Libertarian Traditionalist Fundamentalist here.

    Now that I have my label, what do I do with it?

    Very, very odd test.

    • #129
  10. Kozak Member
    Kozak
    @Kozak

    Tom Meyer, Ed.:

    Objectivist Libertarian Interventionist Ultranationalist Traditionalist

    A little overblown — objectivist? ultranationalist? srsly? — but not bad.

    LOL. You are nearly my brother from another mother…..

    • #130
  11. Wylee Coyote Member
    Wylee Coyote
    @WyleeCoyote

    Carey J.:

    Wylee Coyote:

    If I change my answer on the “Nuke ‘em all” question to “Yes”, that upgrades me from “Cosmopolitan” to “Nationalist”.

    Always wondered where that line was.

    I think “maybe” will get you the Nationalist label, too.

    Interestingly, it does not.  If I mark “Maybe”, leaving all other answers the same, it takes out that adjective entirely, calling me a Conservative Anti-Government Traditionalist.

    Apparently, whether or not to peremptorily glass foreign powers is the controlling question of my philosophy.

    • #131
  12. Tim H. Inactive
    Tim H.
    @TimH

    You are a: Conservative Anarchist Non-Interventionist Nationalist Reactionary

    Collectivism score: -50%
    Authoritarianism score: -83%
    Internationalism score: -33%
    Tribalism score: 33%
    Liberalism score: -67%

    I agree with Richard Finlay, that for many questions, the correct answer is, “It depends.” I’m surprised it put me as a non-interventionist. I had a number of “maybe”=”it depends” on those questions.

    Agreed with several comments above: nationalism<>patriotism, and I’m a bit ticked at the quiz maker for mixing those up.

    • #132
  13. user_358258 Inactive
    user_358258
    @RandyWebster

    Objectivist, Anti-government, Isolationist, Nativist, Reactionary

    Collectivism:  -83

    Authoritarianism:  -33

    Internationalism:  -67

    Tribalism:  50

    Liberalism:  -50

    They left out Right Wing Nut Job.  Or maybe that’s just inherent in the score.

    • #133
  14. Midget Faded Rattlesnake Member
    Midget Faded Rattlesnake
    @Midge

    So do you suppose that -80% on the “Authoritarianism” score is the dividing line between “Libertarian” and “Anarchist”?

    • #134
  15. Midget Faded Rattlesnake Member
    Midget Faded Rattlesnake
    @Midge

    Since so many of these questions seem to address more than one aspect of the score system they use*, I wonder whether they’re using Principal Component Analysis to score the thing. And not just because there’s a cheesy song about it…

    __________________________________________
    *Anti-government attitudes could be scored as both anti-collectivist and anti-authoritarian; pro-family attitudes could be scored as both pro-traditional and pro-authoritarian (the authority of the family); etc.

    • #135
  16. tabula rasa Inactive
    tabula rasa
    @tabularasa

    Took it again and have changed parts of my personality overnight:

    You are a: Conservative Anti-Government Nativist Fundamentalist

    Collectivism score: -50%
    Authoritarianism score: -33%
    Internationalism score: 0%
    Tribalism score: 50%
    Liberalism score: -100%

    I’ve gone from Libertarian to Anti-Government.

    If the advice to “know thyself” is a good thing, this test adds nothing to that endeavor.

    • #136
  17. Mister D Inactive
    Mister D
    @MisterD

    You are a: Right-Leaning Anti-Government Nationalist Reactionary

    Collectivism score: -33%
    Authoritarianism score: -33%
    Internationalism score: 0%
    Tribalism score: 17%
    Liberalism score: -67%

    • #137
  18. user_358258 Inactive
    user_358258
    @RandyWebster

    As I recalled (and just confirmed; ain’t Google great), Jerry Pournelle decided that left and right were meaningless, and came out with what’s now called the Pournelle chart:

    It certainly gives a clearer picture of political views than left and right do.

    • #138
  19. user_3444 Coolidge
    user_3444
    @JosephStanko

    Randy Webster: It certainly gives a clearer picture of political views than left and right do.

    Clearer picture my… foot.

    You’re endorsing a chart that labels conservatives as irrational state-worshipers?  And buying into the notion that the only difference between conservatives and welfare liberals is that the latter are more rational?

    I’m feeling an irrational urge to pop you one in the jaw…

    • #139
  20. user_379896 Coolidge
    user_379896
    @Mountie

    You are a: Right-Leaning Libertarian Non-Interventionist Nationalist Fundamentalist

    Collectivism score: -33%
    Authoritarianism score: -67%
    Internationalism score: -33%
    Tribalism score: 33%
    Liberalism score: -100%

    • #140
  21. Mike H Inactive
    Mike H
    @MikeH

    Randy Webster:As I recalled (and just confirmed; ain’t Google great), Jerry Pournelle decided that left and right were meaningless, and came out with what’s now called the Pournelle chart:

    It certainly gives a clearer picture of political views than left and right do.

    If you go a little higher and a little farther to the left on this graph you get to government being an “unnecessary evil.”

    • #141
  22. iWc Coolidge
    iWc
    @iWe

    Conservative Anarchist Interventionist Cosmopolitan Reactionary

    • #142
  23. user_3444 Coolidge
    user_3444
    @JosephStanko

    Conservative anarchist?  Nope, impossible, oxymoron, self-contradiction.

    • #143
  24. iWc Coolidge
    iWc
    @iWe

    Joseph Stanko:Conservative anarchist? Nope, impossible, oxymoron, self-contradiction.

    It is what it said!

    • #144
  25. user_25971 Member
    user_25971
    @GeoffreyLeach

    Objectivist Non-Interventionist Nationalist Fundamentalist

    Collectivism score: -100%
    Authoritarianism score: 0%
    Internationalism score: -33%
    Tribalism score: 33%
    Liberalism score: -83%

    Fundamentalist Objectivist? So that’s why my life is so complicated!

    • #145
  26. Ed G. Member
    Ed G.
    @EdG

    Midget Faded Rattlesnake:So do you suppose that -80% on the “Authoritarianism” score is the dividing line between “Libertarian” and “Anarchist”?

    No. Anarchists don’t honor lines imposed on them.

    • #146
  27. CandE Inactive
    CandE
    @CandE

    You are a: Conservative Anti-Government Interventionist Cosmopolitan Fundamentalist

    Collectivism score: -50%
    Authoritarianism score: -17%
    Internationalism score: 17%
    Tribalism score: -33%
    Liberalism score: -100%

    Hmmm… 2 sets of contradictions: anti-government vs interventionist (I don’t trust my government except when it’s meddling in other countries), and cosmopolitan vs fundamentalist (I have a bunch of non-Christian friends that are all going to hell).

    Good stuff.

    -E

    • #147
  28. Arahant Member
    Arahant
    @Arahant

    You are a: Objectivist Libertarian Non-Interventionist Nativist Traditionalist
    Collectivism score: -83%
    Authoritarianism score: -67%
    Internationalism score: -17%
    Tribalism score: 67%
    Liberalism score: -33%

    I like this.

    • #148
  29. Arahant Member
    Arahant
    @Arahant

    I don’t really consider myself a tribalist. I just think that nations matter and that larger governments, such as the one world government, are dangerous to the citizens thereof. The more we can limit government, the better. Being an American is a matter of citizenship and culture, not of birth: aspiration, not ascendents.

    • #149
  30. Carey J. Inactive
    Carey J.
    @CareyJ

    Arahant:I don’t really consider myself a tribalist. I just think that nations matter and that larger governments, such as the one world government, are dangerous to the citizens thereof. The more we can limit government, the better. Being an American is a matter of citizenship and culture, not of birth: aspiration, not ascendents.

    Nations do matter, because they are about the largest subset of humanity most people can really care about. Few people, when push comes to shove, really care about “all of mankind”, and most of those who claim to are merely trying to break down national loyalties so that their tribes/factions can gain influence.

    • #150
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