Took a political test

[cadet]

decided to take a political test, on a liberal site(I assume, based on the questions), apparently i'm comparable to Hitler. :laugh:

www.politicalcompass.org/test

[jimnyc]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

For those who want the link clickable to take the test...

[Little-Acorn]

Is this the test that's been around for at least seven years, that claims you can be "conservative" and "believe government can mandate social behavior" at the same time?

Garbage in, garbage out.

This "test" pops up every few months, usually by some excited newbie who has just discovered it, and has never stopped to think how inherently contradictory and foolish its "results" are. Finally the newcomers (most of them) start thinking about what it told them, and drop it in embarrassment. Then it goes quiet, until the next crop of newcomers "discovers" it again.

[cadet]

Is this the test that's been around for at least seven years, that claims you can be "conservative" and "believe government can mandate social behavior" at the same time?

Garbage in, garbage out.

This "test" pops up every few months, usually by some excited newbie who has just discovered it, and has never stopped to think how inherently contradictory and foolish its "results" are. Finally the newcomers (most of them) start thinking about what it told them, and drop it in embarrassment. Then it goes quiet, until the next crop of newcomers "discovers" it again.

I just found it funny how much of a nut it made me look like.

[Little-Acorn]

I just found it funny how much of a nut it made me look like.

It didn't make you look like a nut.

[gabosaurus]

I just found it funny how much of a nut it made me look like.

That obviously shows how truthful the test is. :p

I took that a few years and found out that I was (surprise!) left of center. I think I was -2.5 and -3.
Interesting enough, right after my husband and were married, we took a political views test that was supposed to gauge how well we would get along. The results told us that "we shouldn't be in the same room with each other." :laugh:

[Nukeman]

Is this the test that's been around for at least seven years, that claims you can be "conservative" and "believe government can mandate social behavior" at the same time?

Garbage in, garbage out.

This "test" pops up every few months, usually by some excited newbie who has just discovered it, and has never stopped to think how inherently contradictory and foolish its "results" are. Finally the newcomers (most of them) start thinking about what it told them, and drop it in embarrassment. Then it goes quiet, until the next crop of newcomers "discovers" it again.Wow!!!! do you condescend much??? lighten up Francis!!!!

[Little-Acorn]

Wow!!!! do you condescend much???

Nope. I just tell the truth.

The fact that it SOUNDS condescending, is an indication of just how far the people trying to push their leftist agenda, have fallen. They are actually rigging "tests" like this to look and sound highly sophisticated and truthful, when in fact they push flasehoolds like so much snake oil.

And they've been doing it for years, as indicated by the length of time this particular "test" has been around, bambozzling people with its astonishingly contradictory "results" disguised as facts.

[Nukeman]

Nope. I just tell the truth.

The fact that it SOUNDS condescending, is an indication of just how far the people trying to push their leftist agenda, have fallen. They are actually rigging "tests" like this to look and sound highly sophisticated and truthful, when in fact they push flasehoolds like so much snake oil.

And they've been doing it for years, as indicated by the length of time this particular "test" has been around, bambozzling people with its astonishingly contradictory "results" disguised as facts.I agree with everything you posted here, but it is nothing like you posted towards Cadet. YOU were very condescending by repeatedly calling him a newbie and novice, instead of pushing new posters away why not help them along??

There will always be new people and they will ALWAYS find things to be new even though YOU and I have already seen and heard it all. The way you treat new posters say's a lot about how accepting you are or aren't!!!

[RadiomanATL]

Did you pass?

[logroller]

Did you pass?

Got a (D), is that passing?

[SassyLady]

I am a fraction to the right and above center...barely off the smack dab intersection. Go figure ... have always been in the middle.

[RadiomanATL]

Got a (D), is that passing?

It may get you an athletic scholarship.

[Kathianne]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

For those who want the link clickable to take the test...

http://i40.tinypic.com/2hxlye8.png


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