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By the way, if a user had posted his results x times I took the average of those x values for both the left/right and libertarian/authoritarian value to avoid a situation where a poster like Memorize who took the test 10 or 11 times would cause the estimates to be more biased.

I ended up with 292 unique users. Their results are displayed in the following two histograms. The frequency on the y-axis is how many results fell into a certain interval ( the intervals are {[-10 ,-8] , [-8 ,-6] , ... , [6 , 8] , [8 , 10]}). One can use these histograms to determine the modes.

And finally, here's the scatter plot. There are scatter plots like this one on the website of the Political Compass which show the results of a number of famous politicians (like Gandhi and Thatcher), but they only have a dozen or so points which allows them to put names next to the points. Since I have 292 data points I'm unable to do this. Still, this graph should give you an idea of what the bivariate distribution might look like.

At 7/15/08 01:53 PM, lapis wrote: And finally, here's the scatter plot.

Who the fuck is this?

GunCrave, top of sheet 3.

At 7/15/08 02:03 PM, AapoJoki wrote: Who the fuck is this?

Lol, it isn't visible but what you've encircled is actually a combination of two data points, GunGrave's [10,10] like therealsylvos just pointed but also Zeistro's [10,10] who isn't on the sheets but who posted in the thread (fourth post) that Der-Lowe just linked to. Both might have just been kidding though.

At 7/15/08 02:17 PM, lapis wrote:

At 7/15/08 02:03 PM, AapoJoki wrote: Who the fuck is this?

Lol, it isn't visible but what you've encircled is actually a combination of two data points, GunGrave's [10,10] like therealsylvos just pointed but also Zeistro's [10,10] who isn't on the sheets but who posted in the thread (fourth post) that Der-Lowe just linked to. Both might have just been kidding though.

I seem to remember someone else getting 10's a couple years ago...
Was it The_Tank?
Maybe wolvenBear?
Don't remember.

At 7/15/08 02:17 PM, lapis wrote: Both might have just been kidding though.

Judging from his posts though, GunCrave probably wasn't.

At 7/15/08 02:31 PM, AapoJoki wrote: Judging from his posts though, GunCrave probably wasn't.

Oh, lol, wait, it's just Zeistro's [10 , 10] score actually. GunCrave's [10 , 10] was averaged along with other test results that he posted (that weren't [10 , 10]) so he couldn't have ended up at the 'perfect' [10 , 10]. GunCrave's last few dozen posts might have been made with the sole intent of trolling though, he made a new account called BanditByte (I think) some time after and then switched the name of the account to JakeHero (I put the results of both accounts under the name GunCrave). This JakeHero account scored a [6.5 , 3] later on which might be closer to the guy's actual political position.

To score a [10 , 10] you have to 'strongly agree' with questions like "my race has many superior qualities compared to other races" or something like that so I doubt that a lot people who give honest answers really end up at the [10 , 10].

At 7/15/08 02:58 PM, lapis wrote:
To score a [10 , 10] you have to 'strongly agree' with questions like "my race has many superior qualities compared to other races" or something like that so I doubt that a lot people who give honest answers really end up at the [10 , 10].

I really could find out, but I'm to lazy, but what does the Astrology question affect?
Authoritarianism?

Now for the next obvious question:

Who are the idiots scoring [-10,-10] ?

I took it again, scored somethin like -5, -.2

The first number accurately predicts my increasing distaste for people in power, the second number should predict my healthy middle economic views.....really, it just shows my indifference towards economics.....

At 7/15/08 01:44 PM, lapis wrote:

At 7/14/08 05:39 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: I found seven.

And another one, but nobody replied :(

Yes. Love it. Yes.

Lol.

Statistical stuff

We need to talk about this in the PM system.

At 7/15/08 11:53 PM, Imperator wrote: my indifference towards economics.....

=(
You can like economics and still be leftist, myself being a mild example. The laissez-faire approach is severely limited, theoretical and empirical-wise.

At 7/15/08 11:53 PM, Imperator wrote: Now for the next obvious question:

Who are the idiots scoring [-10,-10] ?

I think slizor does and really means it, the rest are just wannabees.

At 7/15/08 08:33 PM, therealsylvos wrote: I really could find out, but I'm to lazy, but what does the Astrology question affect?
Authoritarianism?

Yes, I tested it and apparently voting 'strongly agree' when confronted with that statement makes you authoritarian and voting 'strongly disgaree' makes you libertarian. Maybe the rationale behind it was that authoritarian people love order so much that they even consider the stars to have some sort of absolute control over someone's life. It's a silly question, though. I can to some extent see a parallel between the 'abstract art shouldn't be considered to be art at all' stetement and the Nazi doctrine of degenerate art but that astrology one is just far-fetched.

At 7/16/08 10:00 AM, Der-Lowe wrote:

Statistical stuff

We need to talk about this in the PM system.

'kay

So send me a PM.

From that first political compass trying to work my way around its flaws I see this:

Economic Left/Right: 6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.56

The compass puts me on the left.

I found that test to be very inaccurate for me. But I'm pretty sure I'm not on that sheet anyway, so no harm done.

Here's mine...thinking people & their rights are more important that money, power & government respect....puts you in the green ;)

Sodding Hell, I waste a lot of my time, but I don't think I've ever done anything constructive with it.

At 7/16/08 12:05 PM, therealsylvos wrote:

At 7/15/08 11:53 PM, Imperator wrote: Now for the next obvious question:

Who are the idiots scoring [-10,-10] ?

I think slizor does and really means it, the rest are just wannabees.

My results tend to depend on a few questions and the strength of my response. Like I'm not really sure how to respond to "a genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies." Deciding on the definition of a free market doesn't really apply to me, but if it said "Do you think the government should intervene in the economy?" then it's an easy response. Also, "a significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system." I can accept that that is an advantage of a dictatorship but still not support the idea of a dictatorship.

Anyhow, here's me again
Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.49

Relatively stable result.

If most people are in the green, that means most people are standard democrats. leftist veiws on government intervention into the market with weak social limitations; i wonder if it's simply that people are apathetic about what happens every time the government steps into a market.

At 7/9/08 12:27 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: I'm Always Ghandi.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.59

-4.00 -5.49

More like Dahli Lama for me...
My position slightly changed since 2004.

I correspond to most graphs shown here...

Holichacha Mandela!

Oh my, the result I got was sort of expected, but I went really far into the red-green zone. I guess this chart shows my true idealist nature. In short, nothing new under the sun.

At 7/20/08 05:22 PM, fli wrote:

At 7/9/08 12:27 PM, Der-Lowe wrote:

-4.00 -5.49

More like Dahli Lama for me...
My position slightly changed since 2004.

I think everyone's always will.
Mine, since I took it in Highschool has just gone towards the right at an increasing rate but has always stayed near the middle in social issues.

It seems Massachusetts has done the opposite for me.

Economic Left/Right: 8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.33

And Lapis my friend, this is the one that should be put up

E: -1.38
S: 2.00

My new position on the compass.

At 1/29/09 02:10 PM, ThePretenders wrote: E: -1.38
S: 2.00

My new position on the compass.

Whoops! I forgot the image.

I am here

wow, a statistical analysis of NG user's political views. i <3 this shit.

You think it's possible for them to have vaguer questions? Not sure how much I trust this compass.

Mine is just as I thought it would be.

The section showing the individual US states' spots as represented by their senators is interesting. All of the states' senators are apparently right-authoritarian.

As expected.