so I've been catching some glimpses on the nerd-o-sphere about this new political quiz:
From the feedback I was seeing, apparently it's better than the venerable Political Compass (https://www.politicalcompass.org/), if only because it provides more granularity?
Well, aside from the fact that the political compass quiz results come in two axes and this one has *four*... I guess more is good?
In any case my results are as follows, which... I don't get it? I thought libertarianism and socialism were like... kind of opposite ends of the governmental interference spectrum?
Like, how is this thing calculated anyway? What are the possible answers? What's the underlying theory in naming these political ideologies?
@tariqk a libertarian socialist is what some might call an "anarchist" although the former term is also widely pejoratively used against activists believed to commit criminal or even violent acts.
I would have got the same if completing the survey when younger, but today got "democrat socialist" on mine, which to be fair is not unexpected. https://social.tchncs.de/media/qpxlkNMgZsr5mmgGC8s
@tariqk it wasn't the case on the other political compass either, I found for the same reasons it could easily shift my views further toward the right wing than they actually are..
@vfrmedia funny, I kept track, at one point, obsessively so, of my political compass values for a few years, measuring every quarter. I got to see myself fall deeper and deeper into one corner of the quadrant 😂
@vfrmedia My values would have changed depending on how angry I was, because it would have meant changing a response from “dis/agree” to strongly so. like... surveys, especially ones that dig into personality and such, tend to need to try and isolate those factors. that didn't seem to be the case here?