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KYM Users' Political Ideology Chart

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Trying something different. I'm using infogram to create charts that allow you to hover over data points on a scatter chart to see who it corresponds to. Note that I've never used this before, so please notify me (either by PM or by posting in this thread) if something doesn't look quite right.

The point of this is less to get a hyper-accurate measure of the KYM forum's political views (so please don't complain about the accuracy of the political test), and more to see how we all compare to each other.

Here's a link to the chart.

Post the results you get (economic and social scores) for the political compass test and I'll add it to the chart. It doesn't take long to finish it.

A few times concerns were brought up over the multiple things I've done involving gathering information from KYM and its users. So, here are my guarantees.

What It Says On The Box: What I say is what will be done. The information provided for the birthday list goes on the birthday list, and I won't put it anywhere else. Of course, I can't guarantee that everyone else will do the same. Remember, you are making the information public.

Others Above Myself: I will never use any data I collect to benefit myself at the expense of others. For example, I will not use the data to shame, dox, embarrass, or otherwise hurt others in such a manner.

Individual Privacy Is Important: In some cases, it's obvious that the information you provide will be made public (e.g. the Birthday List). In other cases, however, I will strive to make sure that the information is anonymous. Should you make it clear who you are regardless, public releases will have it censored slightly.

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The Political Compass test is too vague with too few answers, but it is the quickest (I don't think anyone wants to spend 2 hours on ISideWith just to be a part of a chart) test out there. Anyway, here's mine:

Edit: Economy was 0.43 and Society was -4.67

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Economy: 8.63
Social: -2.31

Economic:-3.0
Social: -3.33

Economic: -2.25
Social: -2.77

The last time I took this, I was -2.5 and -2.05. That was around nine months ago. I just thought that would be interesting to share.

Economic: -1.0
Social: -1.64

Economic Left/Right: -7.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

Economic Left/Right: -5.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03

Economic: – 7.25
Social: – 2.77

Huh. I guess I'm a bit more right authoritarian than I used to be.

Economic Left/Right: 0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.21
Man, I almost hit dead center.

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Economic Left/Right: -3.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.85

I am literally Gandhi

Last edited Sep 17, 2016 at 09:24PM EDT

Economic: -1.5
Social: -2.46

The Political Compass test is too vague with too few answers

I did say in the OP, it's mainly just for comparison between us. As you said, if it was long, people wouldn't be as likely to take it and join in.

I get that there's a bit of controversy about it's accuracy, but it does the job well enough in placing us down to compare to others.

Also – this is developing a beautiful pattern. It's going nearly exactly in a line from bottom-left to top-right (although stopping in the middle because we're all a bunch of commies apparently)

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Let's balance the scales a bit.

Economic: 1.25
Social: 1.54

I'll still gripe about political compass's leading questions if I want to…

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Hotlinking off their server, stealing a bit of bandwidth.

Economic: -4.75
Social: -6.15

I think I took this test a few months ago here and I swear I was leaning to the left, but closer to the center, and now I'm just going! I'm still in the same quadrant though.

I have to admit, I did have some problems with the questions, maybe because English isn't my main language, so it is possible I may have answered some questions wrong.

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Yeah, political compass has some issues, but from those I looked at it was a good compromise between no ethno-centricism (a ton of them were US-centric), size (can't be too long or people won't take it, can't be too short or it'll be inaccurate), and accuracy (actually giving something that felt sorta right). Plus, it's well known to KYMers, with I think a few threads being made on it already, so it was a familiar thing.

Economic:1.13
Social: 1.23

I remember someone complaining about some of the questions on this test being "literally Hitler" lol
btw

Economic Left/Right: -4.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.9

Economic: 5.75
Social: 3.13
here's my results in text if it makes it easier to copy onto the survey

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Hey it's true, you do get more conservative as you get older.

Economic Left/Right: -5.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13

I'm too far to the right for most of the Democratic web and way too far to the left for Republicans. Most places ban me the moment I say a word.

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

I always seem to get a much more libertarian result on this test than I do with others.

~~also jesus christ Pyro how conservative do you have to be to get so far beyond even Patrician~~

I'm patrick

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.77

Economic Left/Right: 0.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.87

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Wow, I came out a lot more socially libertarian then I was before. Still the same economically, however.

I'd consider myself center right, but it seems the opposite is true

Economic Left/Right: -0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

Economic Left/Right: 2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36

Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.28

I've posted somewhere on KYM before about why Political Compass is flawed, but it's still useful for a (very) general overview.

Economic Left/Right: -6.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.9

awsumpwner27 wrote:

Hotlinking off their server, stealing a bit of bandwidth.

Hey man don't worry, there's honour among thieves here. ;P

Economic Left/Right: -3.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54

Strange, really. I've always felt more politically neutral than what is displayed here. Then again, there were a fair few questions I felt could have used a neutral answer, seeing as I had no real opinion on them. Oh well.

Pretty much what I expected.

Economic: -2.13
Social: -4.77

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I do not like to claim to be under any wing because in the end both are just fraudulent illusions of choice. Both parties always serve the corporate interests and the elite while fucking the rest of us over into thinking they are ultimately serving for our interests. Screw the entire bird and its wings, we need more humanitarianism in this world.

meme it up

Asura wrote:

I do not like to claim to be under any wing because in the end both are just fraudulent illusions of choice. Both parties always serve the corporate interests and the elite while fucking the rest of us over into thinking they are ultimately serving for our interests. Screw the entire bird and its wings, we need more humanitarianism in this world.

Could ya spare the e-penor routine for Serious Debate and participate in the chart ya dingus?

Last edited Sep 18, 2016 at 04:43PM EDT

Spider-Byte posted a chart for people around where he lives, so here's another chart for people around where I live. This is my best estimate of each. I didn't bother with Jill Stein because I couldn't think of how she different from the standard Green Party, and didn't want to go researching.