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To be fair, they are pretty far off on a lot of their famous people positions. There's no way I'm further to the economic right than Friedman.

Interesting. I avoid politics like the plague, so I was wondering where I would sit on this puppy.

Neato.

I'm ever so slightly to the left of the Dalai Lama.

I can also tell you that the over-examined life ain't so hot, either.

Static graph is static, put the little red-ball thing in motion, life's an orbit.

Economic Left/Right: -4.38

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28

Interesting stuff. I guess I'm not surprised by the second, but the first has me as more right than I usually consider myself.

Economic Left / Right: -6.50 Social Libertarian / Authoritarian: 4.36

I vary between -4/-6 and -7/-8 on any given day.

Interesting. I avoid politics like the plague, so I was wondering where I would sit on this puppy.

Neato.

I've taken this test before, years ago, and ended up with the inverse of that. Maybe I'll do it again sometime for kicks and giggles.

I have a feeling that I could do this test a month from now and get wildly different results. Many of the answers will remain the same regardless of my particular mood -- the one about astrology, for example -- but the fact is that some of them are (in my opinion) misleading in a 'Have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife' kind of way.

I have a feeling that I could do this test a month from now and get wildly different results. Many of the answers will remain the same regardless of my particular mood -- the one about astrology, for example -- but the fact is that some of them are (in my opinion) misleading in a 'Have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife' kind of way.

Yeah, a few of them were definitely geared towards testing one's emotions rather than retrieval of data. They might as well had the question "are you a blatant racist" in one of them.

You are a Canadian, and I believe that's an American test, therefore you come out as a centrist. That should be a duh.

Wow, this is a shocker.

Was in the first quadrant the last time i took it.

You are a Canadian, and I believe that's an American test, therefore you come out as a centrist. That should be a duh.

Good point.

An example of the difference for Americans:

In the United States, the discussion about health care focuses on how much of it should be controlled by the government vs. insurance companies. In Canada, the argument is centered on whether or not the private sector should run any part of the system. No politician, even the most 'conservative' by Canadian standards, has put forward the idea that we should ditch socialized medicine. The argument is about making it work better, not replacing it with something else.

Years ago, I saw Preston Manning and Ron Jeremy on the same interview program. Ron Jeremy was on first, and then Manning came out and described his vision of 'Prairie Populist Conservatism' or however one wishes to put it.

Manning went on at length, after which Ron Jeremy said to the interviewer, "If this is your idea of a conservative, I'm moving to Canada." And the truth is that this American porn star had a very good point. Mainstream Canadian politics does not include an American-neocon-style party, despite what opposition parties may say about Stephen Harper from time to time.

From having lived across the country, I'm fairly confident in saying that the only province with truly polarized politics is British Columbia. There's virtually no political Center there. Everywhere else (except for Alberta, which is overwhelmingly conservative) has its politics clustered around the Center. This is how we're able to switch from one party's rule to another's with almost no noticeable change in policy. Or, as my ex-wife's uncle put it in a conversation with me, "The difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives is that one party is in power, while the other is not."

British Columbia is awesome.

I've taken that test about once a year, and I get farther to the right economically and more authoritarian with each passing year.

I'd done it ages ago, but could not remember how i scored.

Took it again, results were

Economic Left/Right: -4.25

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67

I found that in the first 3 1/2 pages, i was mostly just agreeing/disagreeing, but after that it was alot more strongly agreeing or disagreeing.

Actually BC politics aren't as polarized as they first appear.

The real question out there is which party is getting the hookers currently

Also yeah well.

I come out near Gandhi. lol. I'm apparently not as left-wing but more libertarian than him.

I think the first time I took this quiz was maybe over six years ago. My results have slowly moved to the right over that time, though now and even back then I always found the wording of the questions bias me towards giving leftist answers and some of them are just stupid.

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46 

That puts me close to the Dalai Lama, a theocrat. Obviously something went wrong.

Some days I’m the extreme right some days I’m the extreme left. Some days I want to save the world some days I want to destroy it. These tests dont prove a thing. Anyone can manipulate one of these to give the answer they want.

I rememeber doing one these in High School. Funny story about that. I was known as the most outspoken Conservative in the student body. Our class took a questionare then the teacher began to tell us what our answers meant for our political leaning. Some one yelled out in the room "Yo, Smith what is your score now?" The guy was hoping for some crazy all conservative score. I started counting and my jaw dropped. I had actually had so many liberal answers that 2/3 of the way through counting I couldn't possibly be conservative. Stupid questionare featured a lot of tax, immigrations, and military intervention for humanitarian reasons. The three areas where I am not just moderate, but quite liberal in.

I don't have time to retake the test but these were my results last week when I saw some people with their compass results in their signatures and got curious:

Economic Left/Right: 0.50

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 4.41

A year ago though I was somewhere around Economic Left/Right: -4 and about the same for Social Libertarian/Authoritarian. Time changes perspective. Or I just can't give consistent answers because with the way the questions are worded, there really isn't any way to consistently answer them depending on how I feel on a certain subject at a given time.

My test results were thrown off by the quantum effect, maybe.

I'm -8, -6. I am proud that I'm pro-equality.

I had been working on a political quiz for Cybernations for a while, but quit when I realized I had no way to actually present it to CN or make it into a workable reality. While all the questions and math exist on paper and elsewhere, it's too bad I couldn't make it a reality.

I'm generally bottom left [like, right in there], which isn't really true as i'm pretty centerist. The problem is that many of the issues that clearly get you pulled over to the left are considered 'normal' in NZ as opposed to the US so while I may be considered a 'radical' there, i'm just average here.