The folks at the Political Compass have put together, well, the Political Compass. This quiz lets you find yourself both on the economic left-right access, but also on authoritarian-libertarian axis. The idea is that this gets around the issue of “social” conservatives (and liberals) vs “economic” conservatives (and liberals).
Good stuff.
For the record, I came out
I think this is fairly accurate — but I have no idea how well it jibes with anyone else’s perceptions of me.
Sure, it’s not as cool as knowing that you’re “Hugo Drax” or “the Mona Lisa” or “Albert Einstein in a Peignoir,” but it’s probably more valuable. So what are you?
(Via Andrew Sullivan)
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I’m -2.88 x -3.59, according to the test. Gandhiesque, which doesn’t seem quite right for a committed cynic.
And I’m Benoit Mandelbrot Holding A Chicken, which kicks ass!
Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.64
… a little more to the economic left than I thought.
Economic Left/Right: -3.00 (Left)
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.00 (Libertarian)
Don’t know how extreme that makes me compared to most folks. Most of the ‘famous’ people they had up on their chart were right-wing authoritarians.
I m not a writer and not even a real blogger, but I have a grammar question that I don t think has been addressed here. How do you write a plural possessive, regarding, e.g., the home of Carol and Mike? Carol s and Mike s, or Carol and Mike s?
I would probably say “Carol and Mike’s house,” treading “Carol and Mike” as a weird sort of compound noun.
Though that presumes a relationship. If we’re instead talking about a house where both Carol and Mike (and some other folk) rent rooms or pitch in funds to live together, I might possible say “Carol’s and Mike’s house,” implying they have a separate share in the place.
As you suggest, framing it as “the home of Carol and Mike” gets around the problem in either situation.