{"id":6462,"date":"2004-08-30T21:25:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T04:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/30\/calibration.html"},"modified":"2004-08-30T21:25:23","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T04:25:23","slug":"calibration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/30\/calibration.html","title":{"rendered":"Calibration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott<\/a> (once again<\/a>) reminds me to take the Political Compass test<\/a>, as much to see if I’ve changed since the last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nEconomic<\/strong>
Left\/Right<\/strong><\/td>\n		Libertarian\/<\/strong>
Authoritarian<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/2001<\/a><\/td>\n-1.13<\/td>\n-3.13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/2003<\/a><\/td>\n-2.13<\/td>\n-3.54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/2004<\/td>\n-0.75<\/td>\n-3.13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Which all puts me about the same mildly libertarian, but much closer to economic center than before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whatever that means. Part of the drift may come from “Well, yeah, but …” answers to too many of the questions. Still, it’s probably more indicative than, say simple Left\/Right, Liberal\/Conservative, or Dem\/GOP labels.<\/p>\n

Though it still comes up with some interesting analyses. For example, looking at the Primaries results<\/a> would lead one to believe that John Edwards should actually be George W. Bush’s veep candidate, not John Kerry’s. And it would indicate that I should be far more enthusiastic about Kerry (or even Kucinich or Braun — and I suspect that the Kerry folk would not appreciate being told that he’s further left, economically, than Carol Mosley Braun). Which means that there are other elements to the political decision than just these two axes — specific issues, perhaps (e.g., the national\/transnational axis) or perceptions of personality, or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott (once again) reminds me to take the Political Compass test, as much to see if I’ve changed since the last time. DateEconomicLeft\/RightLibertarian\/Authoritarian 12\/2001-1.13-3.13 5\/2003-2.13-3.54 8\/2004-0.75-3.13 Which all puts me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personality-tests","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10730,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/the_political_compass.html","url_meta":{"origin":6462,"position":0},"title":"The Political Compass","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jul-07 1:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"BD pointed to the Political Compass test again, so I thought I'd re-take it and see how I was doing.\u00a0 The Political Compass graphs out socio-political philosophies along two axes,...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":217,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/27\/axis_to_grind.html","url_meta":{"origin":6462,"position":1},"title":"Axis to grind","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-May-03 12:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Scott reminds me of this test to chart out your \"political compass\" -- where you lie on the economic left\/right and the authoritarian\/libertarian scale. 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