Dave Hoffman blogs about how silly the Political Compass test is, and I prove how silly I am by taking the bait. Although I ultimately finished the survey and received scores similar to Dave (barely off center of the Economic scale (-.13) but far down the Libertarian scale (-6.36), the very first question made me just stare at the computer for awhile:
If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.
I only had the options of Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree. There was not the option of "I do not believe this is a binary choice."
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1. Posted by Brock on January 11, 2007 @ 15:08 | Permalink
More questions like "Do you believe ..?" would have been useful to get at our basic assumptions. Mostly they were asking for our conclusions, which I think a lot of people could come at from different directions.
I landed on Milton Friedman though, so I guess it's accurate enough (considering only the X- and Y-axes). They forgot to measure the Z-axis though (Foreign Policy), where old Milt and I part ways ...
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