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Take the 5-Dimension Political Compass Quiz!
I’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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Old, Young, or American?
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.
You are a: Objectivist Libertarian Isolationist Nativist Reactionary
Collectivism score: -100%
Authoritarianism score: -67%
Internationalism score: -50%
Tribalism score: 50%
Liberalism score: -50%
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”?
I dunno. I think McCain would probably nuke somebody, maybe a Tea Party convention.
I think “maybe” will get you the Nationalist label, too.
I did, too.
You must have voted to nuke the [CoC]s, too.
Conservative Libertarian Traditionalist Fundamentalist here.
Now that I have my label, what do I do with it?
Very, very odd test.
LOL. You are nearly my brother from another mother…..
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.
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.
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.
So do you suppose that -80% on the “Authoritarianism” score is the dividing line between “Libertarian” and “Anarchist”?
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…
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*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.
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.
You are a: Right-Leaning Anti-Government Nationalist Reactionary
Collectivism score: -33%
Authoritarianism score: -33%
Internationalism score: 0%
Tribalism score: 17%
Liberalism score: -67%
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.
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…
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%
If you go a little higher and a little farther to the left on this graph you get to government being an “unnecessary evil.”
Conservative Anarchist Interventionist Cosmopolitan Reactionary
Conservative anarchist? Nope, impossible, oxymoron, self-contradiction.
It is what it said!
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!
No. Anarchists don’t honor lines imposed on them.
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
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.
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.