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8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby cmsellers » Thu Oct 26, 2017 7:49 pm

As a result of finding the libertarian purity test again, I decided to see what other political spectrum tests I could find. Most of what I found was awful, but I found a couple interesting new ones. One was basically the libertarian purity test run by anarcho socialists which I'll find again and link at some point. And one was a project on github called 8values, which is a 4-dimensional test (or should I say Tess, since you'd need a tesseract to depict it properly). Note that to share your results you will need to save the picture and upload them: the image is a blob which our image tags won't display.


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My results on the social and economic dimensions were not a big surprise: I was barely right-of-center on economics but very socially libertarian. My result on the tradition/progress axis was also unsurprising: though I don't like being called "progressive," I'm a big believer in progress. Being centrist on the nationalist/internationalist axis was a surprise; I'd have been sure that I'd be noticeably further towards the internationalist side. But then, I hate the UN, am skeptical of the EU, and believe that liberal democracy is superior to all other systems, and am willing to use pressure (though generally not war) to impose it on other countries.

There's also some questions where I think my answer may have given a result opposite of what it should. For example, I said that the government should override the will of the people sometimes, but my reason for saying this is that people tend to vote for unnecessary restrictions and even violations of other people's civil liberties. I couldn't tell what this question was supposed to affect, so I tested it (putting everything else neutral) and it moves you 1.5% towards authoritarian. And though I didn't test this, dollars to donuts the one about people often making poor decisions does the same, even though my belief is that people often make poor decisions and should absolutely have the right to make them.

Edited to add link.
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Lindvaettr » Thu Oct 26, 2017 7:52 pm

In case anyone is as lazy as I wanted to be, and are unable to become as extremely and impressively productive as I became when I realized sellers didn't post a link: 8values
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby cmsellers » Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:03 pm

Lindvaettr wrote:In case anyone is as lazy as I wanted to be, and are unable to become as extremely and impressively productive as I became when I realized sellers didn't post a link: 8values

That was totally intentional. I was ... uhh... testing you to see if you'd notice. Yep, I definitely didn't just forget.
And congrats, you passed, have a cookie.

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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Marcuse » Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:08 pm

I got centrist.

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Like a lot of these tests, they suffer greatly from focusing far too much on American social and political mores and what's in vogue at the time. Asking someone who has grown up and lived with a National Health Service if they "support single payer healthcare" is a bit silly. It would have been better to have a statement like "I support universal healthcare" or something like that.
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Lindvaettr » Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:16 pm

Thanks, but next time you're passing out Girlscout Cookies, I'd prefer Thin Mints.

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TCSers who remember the old political compass test results inordinately well enough to recall the results of others may notice that while I'm still very socially progressive and civilly libertarian, I've made a very significant move from rather far-left (left even for dirty communist Europeans) to pretty near to the center. I tended to lean to the "Equality" answers when I felt the question was overly vague, so I'd actually add a couple percentage points to "Markets" if I could refine the questions to allow me to give more suitable answers.

Why? Maybe I'll write out an analysis later, but for now I'll stick with the current cultural standby. A belief that, unlike so many beliefs nowadays, is held in high regard by nearly everyone on both sides of the political spectrum. I'm smart and right, and if you disagree with me you're wrong and dumb and Tess should ban you from expressing your opinion on this forum.
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Delta Jim » Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:58 pm

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Like most of these kinds of things, I found myself going neutral in cases where my answer would be "yes if..." or "no, but...". So I feel like this test needs "Somewhat Agree/Disagree".
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:03 pm

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That's a lot further to the left than I thought I was....... I usually score like, :-3 X, 0 Y

Goddamn it, I really am becoming a stereotype, aren't I?
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Kate » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:05 pm

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No big shocks. The only surprising thing to me is that apparently I like the world better than sellers and Lind do :P
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Lindvaettr » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:15 pm

Kate wrote:No big shocks. The only surprising thing to me is that apparently I like the world better than sellers and Lind do :P


The world is full of evil people like Muslims and Africans and, worst by far, the English. Burn it to the ground. God bless the USA. And then when he's done that, go smite England because all the rain prevents it from burning.
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Learned Nand » Thu Oct 26, 2017 10:36 pm

I got this, which isn't very surprising, but I'm also not sure it's very insightful. The values seem kind of self-defining, and each question seems targeted at a single value, so you could accurately self-assess without taking the quiz.

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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Anglerphobe » Thu Oct 26, 2017 11:13 pm

While answering neutrally to the many questions I thought were too vague or unnecessarily polarised to respond to meaningfully:

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I'm slightly annoyed by the fact that the post above mine is a near identical set of results.
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby octoberpumpkin » Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:49 am

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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby Typical Michael » Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:55 am

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Great. Got the same as the friggin' Canadian.
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby jbobsully11 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:00 am

Apparently my phone won’t copy the whole thing, so I retyped parts of my results. They seem pretty accurate.

economic: 75% equality — social
diplomatic: 33.5% nation — peaceful
civil: 67.7% liberty — liberal
societal: 16.9% tradition — very progressive

closest match: libertarian socialism
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Re: 8values: Yet another political spectrum test

Postby NathanLoiselle » Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:08 am

I couldn't download or link to my picture showing my results but I'm a Social Liberal. So take that ... Trump!
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