Hey, there's a new Selectsmart political test! Woohoo!

[Stefu]

As we all remember, testing is the national sport of Apolyton!

I got:

1. libertarian conservative
2. social liberal
3. market liberal
4. Third Way
5. Christian democrat
6. anarcho-capitalist
7. social democrat
8. fascist
9. ecologist or green
10. classical socialist
11. communist
12. anarcho-communist

http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/sele...client=polphil

[Kyle]

1. anarcho-capitalist
2. market liberal
3. social liberal
4. Christian democrat
5. libertarian conservative
6. social democrat
7. Third Way
8. ecologist or green
9. anarcho-communist
10. fascist
11. classical socialist
12. communist

Wow, I had no idea.

[Sava]

My results...
#1 You are an ecologist or green.
#2 You are an anarcho-communist,
#3 You are a classical socialist,
#4 You are a communist.
#5 You are a social democrat.
#6 You are a social liberal.
#7 You adhere to the Third Way.
#8 You are a fascist.
#9 You are a Christian democrat -
#10 You are an anarcho-capitalist.
#11 You are a market liberal.
#12 You are a libertarian conservative.

YIKES!... that test is FUBAR!
I recognized which questions and answers led to this ranking, but I think there should have been more questions and more of a scale of agree/disagree. Bad test.

[Shi Huangdi]

1. Market Liberal
2. Social Liberal
3. Anarcho-Capitalist
4. Libertarian Conservative
5. Christian Democrat
6. Social Democrat
7. Third Way
8. Green
9. Fascist
10. Anarcho-Communist
11. Classical Socialist
12. Communist

[Swissy]

1. Christian democrat
2. libertarian conservative
3. anarcho-capitalist
4. market liberal
5. social democrat
6. social liberal
7. classical socialist
8. anarcho-communist
9. communist
10. Third Way
11. fascist
12. ecologist or green

Pretty much as I expected. Perhaps the top two flipped.

[VJ]

#1 Social Democrat
#2 Social Liberal - "Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom"...
yet I said exactly the opposite in the first question.
#3 Third Way
#4 Communist - "You believe, at least in theory, in absolute equality of income"...
Quite interesting, when we'll keep in mind that I said exactly the opposite in this identical
question of the quiz. Wutang!
#5 Ecologist or green
#6 Fascist - now you're talking!
#7 Market liberal
#8 Anarcho-capitalist - This is not one of the last ones? Disturbing.
#9 Classical socialist
#10 Libertarian conservative
#11 Anarcho-communist
#12 Christian democrat

[Buck Birdseed]

It's one of the free ones. You can create them yourself.

Since none of these categories come close to describing me, the outcome is necessarily strange.

1. Classical Socialist
2. Third Way
3. Green
4. Social Democrat
5. Christian Democrat
6. Communist
7. Social Liberal
8. Libertarian Conservative
9. Anarcho-communist
10. Market Liberal
11. Fascist
12. Anarcho-Capitalist

I put "low priority" on all the economic questions, that probably threw it, plus the fact that I dislike both liberal and communitarian definitions of freedom.

[Mercator]

#1 You are an anarcho-communist
#2 You are an ecologist or green
#3 You are a communist
#4 You are a classical socialist
#5 You are a social democrat
#6 You are a social liberal
#7 You adhere to the Third Way
#8 You are an anarcho-capitalist
#9 You are a fascist
#10 You are a Christian democrat
#11 You are a market liberal
#12 You are a libertarian conservative

OK... I guess that makes me a green anarcho-communist.

[Al B. Sure!]

13. Religion should be actively protected by the government


What does that mean?

[Inverse Icarus]

it seems the top 5 are most accurate:

1. Communist
2. Classical Socialist
3. Fascist
4. Third Way
5. Anarcho-Communist
6. Libertarian Conservative (WTF?)
7. Social Democrat
8. Christian Democrat
9. Green
10. Social Liberal
11. Anarcho-Capitialist
12. Market Liberal

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
13. Religion should be actively protected by the government


What does that mean?

you should be allowed to practice your religion without fear of persecution, hate crimes, or government penalities.

[Stefu]

Hey, Snappy, didn't we talk about creating a new version of that strange test you gave us one day? How 'bout it?

[Maniac]

#1 You are a social democrat.
#2 You adhere to the Third Way.
#3 You are a Christian democrat
#4 You are a fascist.
#5 You are an ecologist or green.
#6 You are a classical socialist
#7 You are a communist.
#8 You are a libertarian conservative.
#9 You are a social liberal.
#10 You are an anarcho-communist
#11 You are a market liberal.
#12 You are an anarcho-capitalist.

The first and last few in the rank seem quite correct. The order of those in between are rather strange. Which is understandable of course.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Stefu, you testing whore!

1. Anarcho-Capitalist
2. Market Liberal
3. Social Liberal
4. Social Democrat
5. Libertarian Conservative
6. Third Way
7. Christian Democrat
8. Green
9. Anarcho-Communist
10. Classic Socialist
11. Communist
12. Fascist

Kinda interesting to see Social Democrat above Libertarian Conservative, and I'm glad that Fascist was DEAD LAST (where it deserves to be ).

[Al B. Sure!]

Uber:

See it should have said FREEDOM of religion should be protected...

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
Uber:

See it should have said FREEDOM of religion should be protected...

well, i'm assumign thats what they meant. their literal translation "religion should be protected" doesn't seem like they mean any sort of non-secular state.

and besides, i had that on Agree / Moderate, and i still got Commie

[Edan]

Originally posted by UberKruX


you should be allowed to practice your religion without fear of persecution, hate crimes, or government penalities.

Then shouldn't that be freedom of religion, instead of just religion? it's just as easy to interpret that the government is a theocracy protecting a single religion without a barrier between church and state.

[Al B. Sure!]

Makes sense...

#1 Christian democrat
#2 Fascist
#3 Anarcho-Capitalist


#1 You are a Christian democrat - or, in the UK, a "One Nation conservative"; in other words, although you share the usual conservative belief in stability and duty, you believe that such duties include a responsibility on the part of the better-off to help those who are less fortunate. You will be socially conservative, but in favour of a mixed economy where the state does have a role in providing public services. Christian democracy arose after World War II, succeeding more doctrinaire Catholic parties dating from the 1870s.

#2 You are a fascist. You combine a strong belief in the nation with authoritarian social values, and a willingness to impose your views upon others. You strongly oppose immigration, and are willing to take radical action to combat it.

#3 You are an anarcho-capitalist. Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that "that government is best which governs least", and extend it - "that government is best which governs not at all". The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour (resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).


thanks

[Buck Birdseed]

I'm actually in the process of researching it right now. I was going to have it done by next week, but I think early february is a more realistic goal.

In the meantime, if anyone can suggest a sensible way of calculating the position of a point in an equilateral triangle such that, given three numbers, each a person's relative tendency towards one of the corners compared to the other two, an accurate position for that person's inclinations within the triangle is given. If a person gives only answers tending towards one corner, he should end up in that corner, if answers relating to two corners, on the line between them, and so on. Bear in mind that each value is relative, not absolute- A person who scores {1, 0, 0} should end up in the same place as one who scores {62, 0, 0}. This relativity is because there will be many alternatives for each question, some worth more points than others, and because there will be an "important-not important" scale.

[Drogue]

1 - Social Liberal
2 - Ecologist or Green
3 - Third Way
4 - Social Democrat

Then it went a bit weird, can't remember exactly what I got, but they had little relevance anyway.

[Stefu]

Snappy: I'm assuming the triangle refers to liberalism-socialism-conservatism division of idelogies, right? What kind of questions were you planning to put in?

[Wernazuma III]

1. ecologist/green
2. social liberal
3. social democrat
4. classical socialist
5. Third Way

[Agathon]

Hee Hee - sooner a fascist than a Christian Democrat.

#1 ecologist or green.

#2 You are a social democrat.

#3You are a classical socialist

#4You are a communist.

#5You are an anarcho-communist

#6You adhere to the Third Way.

#7You are a social liberal.

#8You are a fascist.

#9You are a Christian democrat

#10You are an anarcho-capitalist.

#11You are a market liberal.

#12You are a libertarian conservative.

[Az]

1 Communist
2 Classical Socialist
3 Social Democrat
4 Third way
5 Soc Lib
6 Green
7 Anarcho Commie
8 Christian Democrat
9 Fascist
10 Libertarian Concervative
11 Anarcho Capitalist
12 Market Liberal

All in all, much as I've expected.

[Sava]

No wonder I like you so much Mercator.. our top 7 are so much alike

Speer

[Az]

So you turned out to be an arachocommie, Sava. how surprising.

[Al B. Sure!]

Sava:

The right-wing forces I agree with are supported by industry, religius groups, the military, and the lower middle class... beat that punk ass communist... the proletariat will rise and slaughter the decadent leftist bourgeious.

[CapitanGarlic]

1.anarcho-communist
2.anarcho-capitalist
3.social liberal
4.ecologist or green
5.communist
6.market liberal
7.social democrat
8.classical socialist
9.libertarian conservative
10.fascist
11.Third Way
12.Christian democrat

Apparently I'm very anarchistic.

[Az]

The right-wing forces I agree with are supported by industry, religius groups, the military, and the lower middle class... beat that punk ass communist... the proletariat will rise and slaughter the decadent leftist bourgeious.

[Starchild]

Top Three:

Social Liberal
Social Democrat
Market Liberal

Bottom Three:

Christian Democrat
Communist
Fascist