My political compass, three years later
Three years ago I took the test on the “Political Compass” site. This was the result back then, which seemed to place me correctly on the scale:
I just took the test again. And although I certainly didn’t remember my previous answers, the results were fairly consistent. On the authoritarian scale, I scored the same, while on the left/right dimension, I had moved slightly rightward:
The site has a curious graph that purports to place composers on the grid. There aren’t too many composers whose politics are known (the great Bach is missing, for example, as is another favorite of mine, Handel). But when I looked at the chart, I was surprised to find where three of my absolute favorite composers—Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Dvorak—were positioned:
Does political affinity make for musical affinity?
Pandora’s genome might know.
one does not change… one figures out that those who know what they like, are lying, then goes to find the truth, which as the bible says, will set you free…
i wonder how many leftists who hate such, realize how many terms and ideas they consistenly use and abuse from such? sacred, love of money is the root of all evil (of which they use the end – money is the root of all evil), spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, the truth will set you free, there is a time and a place for everything, etc…
the problem i have with the test is that the same kind of person in a different country would score differently, so the test dont really measure what it purports.
I’d always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.
what is the answer if your in the US, waht is the answer if your in the soviet union during red terror?
Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races.
doesnt that depend on what race, what history you know, how you score the qualities, among many other things?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
what do you score if your arab vs inuit vs tibetian?
T. Adorno and his bs is alive and well…
another thing from my other point, i wonder if anyone tells athiests to stop using everyday biblical terms? ie. if they are athiests, then why use the terms of the bible in your speech, ways, ideas, etc? i mean if you hate it, and thing it should not exist, shouoldnt you not use it?
A broken heart
A cross to bear
A drop in the bucket
A fly in the ointment
A house divided against itself cannot stand
A labour of love
A law unto themselves
A leopard cannot change its spots
A man after his own heart
A multitude of sins
A nest of vipers
A peace offering
A sign of the times
Fight the good fight
Fall from grace
In the twinkling of an eye
Man does not live by bread alone
Many are called but few are chosen
Skin of your teeth
White as snow
Wolf in sheep’s clothing
the last is interesting as socialists are atheists, and thats the motto of the socialist fabians… hmmmm…
Writing is on the wall
its not jack keroac, its the bible silly… 🙂
Artfldgr:
Of course, the test is flawed.
I just thought it was interesting that my answers resulted in a relatively stable result over time, and also the concordance with my musical tastes.
Interesting test, I came out just to the left of Neocon on the same horizontal line. Goofy thing is I put DvoÅ™é¡k’s New World Symphony before I started reading blogs this morning. I end up real close to him and all I know about his is that he is one of my favorite composers.
I would have guessed I would be a bit more to the right and if questions were worded a bit different that is where I might have placed on the graph.
Thank once more for some fun stuff.
Obviously the test is biased, but it was still fun. The biggest flaw I saw was that there were many questions about the danger of powerful corporations but none about the dangers of powerful government. That someone like me, who despises government power grabs would come up above the midline in the authoritarian scale is hilarious. The left are the ones who love big powerful government.
I came out 5 to the right in the economic scale and 1 up on the authoritarian scale.
I would take these historical results a bit more seriously if I knew when Mozart, Puccini, Stravinsky, et.al. actually took this test.
Neo:
When I took the test just now I came in at only one block “north” of your recent result. Guess that means I’m a smidgen more “authoritarian” than you. That tells me that your outlook is really not all that different from that of “us guys”.
I do have to object to a bunch of those questions, though. About 25% of them were preloaded with absolutist terms and dog whistle-ish, code words that force you to decide whether you’re willing to agree mostly with a statement the premise of which you don’t really like or accept.
Also: Since the the concept of the “Authoritarian Personality” (as it was taught in Social Psychology circa 1970) having been turned on its head with the advent of a Fascistic Left, who (these days) gets to say what (or who) is or isn’t authoritarian? Respect for, or well-founded fear of, Authority is not the same as blind obedience or allegiance to it.
Hey Art: I’m curious about how you scored?
Illuminati: I agree re the test being overly obsessed with the “power of corporations” yet ignoring that of government. Gave it something of an “Occupy Wall Street-ish flavor that I didn’t much care for.
Still, interesting and fun.
Illuminati:
The biggest flaw I saw was that there were many questions about the danger of powerful corporations but none about the dangers of powerful government.
Very good point.
I scored about the same on L-R as Neo, and still in the Libertarian corner, but close to the Libertarian-Authoritarian divide.
Dodger’s point about “my country right or wrong” depends on the country you are from is a point well taken.
Bach left out? Perhaps because he would have been hard to score. While he worked for Princes, he had his disagreements with them.
He could be considered Conservative/fuddy duddy for continuing to write in counterpoint at a time when many of his peers had abandoned it. At the same time, he put his own stamp on counterpoint. No one- and I repeat no one- had the mastery of counterpoint that Bach did. One can often identify a musical work as being Bach’s by noting the complexity of counterpoint used. A further example of Bach’s individualism as shown by his use of counterpoint is that in some- many- of his works one can sense the sheer delight of composing. Look at what I can do! Let’s try this!
Yes, Bach was difficult to categorize.
On the other hand, that brings up the question: how in heck did they score the other musicians?
This compass places Barack Obama as being further to the right than Neo or I am, which I do not agree with.
It places him as being much more authoritarian than Neo I,which sounds about right. It scores Barack Obama and Mitt Romney as being almost identical. Can’t say I agree with that.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012
Yeah… Any test that puts Obama on the right of anything is pushing the bounds of credulity. The test was fun until I noticed that.
Neo: It seems you are less of an authoritarian than I am. I demand you retake the test until your score improves.
I hit pretty close to your current results. If you look at the “International Chart” on the site’s analysis page, you can see we are in good company.
Gringo…
Barry Soetoro is sky high on the authoritarian scale…
And w a a a a a y to the Left any way you figure it.
I don’t think we’ve even seen his full expression of his id.
Stalin, Hitler, Mao,… all had at least five to six years under their belts before going total whacko.
The Seven-year Itch is also in our future with the Digital Tyrant.
There is a general refusal to accept that Digital Barry is able to entirely subvert the nation via hacking, the NSA, and OfA.
We have a polity living in denial.
Even though Snowden has shown that the NSA, Google, MSFT, and Apple have permanent back-doors into every operating system out there — to include Linux — which is financed by the NSA via cut-outs — the general public STILL accepts the 2012 voting tabulation.
The reality is so shocking and scary that no-one is willing to pull up the covers.
A good starting point would be the Atlantic story, circa September 2012, that detailed the cross-over from Google to Barry Soetoro. In that article, all that was discussed turned around Black Hat hacking issues. They were even willing to admit that they had crafted a target system or two to practice hacking on. Though that exact phrasing was not used.
Then, November comes around, and Mitt’s software crashes instantly — in the exact manner that Google’s crew “feared” for the Democrats. Some co-incidence!
Then weird tabulations rolled in all night, and even though the polling was being wildly violated… the proles were informed that everything was A-OK… on the up and up.
Barry started pulling Chicago style tabulations out of every ghetto in the nation. A string of 100% voting is as absurd as getting 110% — as neither tabulation belongs in the real world.
My voting zone is hyper-active, vote wise. Yet it never is able to get voting participation past 80% in any election… 50% is more typical, 70% if the vote is important and on the edge.
(Voter participation collapses in all Gerrymandered districts as both factions realize that the result is baked in the cake. This logic is why Americans have such low voter participations — particularly in by-elections. The Gerrymander becomes overwhelming — and everyone knows it.)
All of the above is tied into the US Census — which Barry has totally politicized — by taking it into the White House. (!)
Consequently, OfA can dial in on EXACTLY the critical tabulations to swing what is swingable.
Hence: “Digital Tyranny.”
I took that test a couple of days ago, linked from AoSHQ. I scored almost the same as you, neo-neocon: upper left corner of the purple, though a little bit closer to the middle on the vertical axis. Left/right economically was about the same.
Interesting, within one (diagonally). Like others, its hard to overstate my distrust of government or crony capitalism. Perhaps the results should have 3 dimensions …
I was surprised to see the Pournelle Axis. It was developed by Dr. Jerry Pournelle about the early ’70’s.
My son was in AP Government and blew the teacher away explaining it. He, my son is low and right – I am a little higher and farther to the right.
I always enjoy your website. Thank you for your perspective.
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