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jastrub · 09-13-2011, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

The political compass thing is pretty worthless, the questions are slanted so that they tend to lean towards the moral majority. I imagine many people aged 20-40 score within the "libertarian left" quadrant. And certainly, that encompasses most people on this forum.

F. ex. there was a question on the political compass asking (as a negation) whether abortion outside of a life-saving operation was justified. Since most people (fuck off Sarah Palin) agree that raped women have the right to an abortion; as an index of social anarchism, it's not very good. Additionally, there were more than a few questions that were redundant or so similar that they couldn't be expected to be separate indices on the political spectrum.

From this compass, I simply don't understand what "politically neutral" entails.

That doesn't necessarily make it "useless". Maybe that's just a sign that our society is growing to be more socially liberal, which I would say is a good thing.

I think some of the questions are worded in a rather prejudiced way, though. All of the questions about, for instance, military intervention and arms development are all written in a way which makes one feel compelled to choose the answer that will herald a liberterian-left answer. Nolan himself was often described as a social anarchist, and thus his chart developments are going to be likewise biased