A politics meme, for those of you who like that sort of thing

[philmophlegm]

Rather a better one than the last one I saw in that it's British and doesn't go on about gun control and such like (which very much skewed my results). This one is a few years old, but seems rather better.

I'd like to see how it comes out for other people:

http://www.politicalsurvey2005.com/

Comments

[firin.livejournal.com]

I came out as absolutely dead centre, 0.0 and 0.0...

I always thought I was slightly to the right.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I came out rather more left wing than I thought I was (i.e. fairly left wing rather than left of centre) but almost exactly the same place on (down in the left hand lower quartile but near the centre horizontal line on the scatter graph.) Once again, I found the questions did not cover my personal point of view, and ended up marking 'No opinion' when in fact I have an unrepresented strong opinion.

[purplecat]

Having considered myself "slightly left of centre" I discover I'm vanishing off to the far left on internationalism (It didn't put me in the furthermost left category but with only 0.1% of the population to the left of me I don't know what else I am) but slightly right of centre (but not enough to get out of the dead centre category) on economics.

Whether this balances out as "slightly left of centre" overall I'm not sure.

[skordh.livejournal.com]

I was a bit similar to that, very left wing on internationalism / rehabilitation and quite right wing on economics. I thought I was 'centre' which I suppose I was, on average!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

"Crime and punishment, internationalism
Your position on this axis is -3.7
You are likely to be fairly internationalist and rehabilitationist.

Economics, etc
Your position on this axis is 0.9
You are likely to be slightly free-market and pro-war."

I tend to think of myself as centrist, while also thinking that that is too simplistic a term.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I got 3.3 and 4.7 which seems about right.

On the second axis, that means that "98.7% of the whole population are significantly to my left". That's more than I thought to be honest - I'd always assumed that online I hung out with a bunch of sandal-wearing, hippy-loving, tree-hugging, Guardian-reading lefties (;-), but that my friends weren't representative of the wider population. My offline friends are I think much more right-wing (that may be a feature of being accountants, I don't know), albeit not usually as much as me.

Most surprising statistic was that the only newspaper readers who were significantly to my right on the second axis were 1.1% who read The Guardian!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

I seem to have got myself right in the initial judgement, slightly left of centre, and scored:
Crime and punishment, internationalism
Your position on this axis is -1.8
You are likely to be slightly internationalist and rehabilitationist.

Economics, etc
Your position on this axis is -0.8
You are likely to be slightly socialist and anti-war.