Damnable Lumberg... This is as bad as that damn penguin game, with none of the fun...
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28
According to this survey - I'm further out there than Gandhi...
Aside from my issues on firearms, foreign policy, and a few other areas, this is probably pretty accurate.
It's obviously too simplistic to try and quantify someone's entire political belief system in 2-dimensions of modeling. However, as far as this sort of thing goes, this is decently written IMO (not "good" or "great" - by any stretch - but not horrible), but it is key that you shouldn't look at these as polling or survey questions.
My main gripe with this was that a few questions were just written poorly (in terms of grammar and negative vs. positive phrasing) and that they didn't have a neutral or "don't care" category. These sorts of surveys often forget that many people are essentially apolitical in some areas.
Pretty much none of the questions were balanced or fair (almost all were slanted hard in one of their four quadrants) - which is a common technique in this sort of questionaire. The purpose is typically to present a point of view that
belongs to one "side" or the other - and then see how much someone agrees.
You will note that the overall questionaire does (if you count) split their questions pretty evenly into the four areas - though you'll note that more of the poorly written ones fall on the right (which I would guess would cause people to come out slightly more left than they should - as you probably disagreed with a few questions because the letter of the question was impossible to agree with as written).
Cheers,
- Oak
