8values Political Leaning Quiz

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8values Political Leaning Quiz

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I know we had a similar quiz before, but here's a new one: https://8values.github.io/

This is what I got:

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But what was your closest match?!
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:But what was your closest match?!
Uh, progressivism, I think?
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I don't feel very progressive. I mostly just want people to leave me alone and not fuck things up.
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social liberalism

equality 65.4 wealth 34.6
might 30.8 peace 69.2
liberty 60.3 authority 39.7
tradition 20.8 progress 79.2
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Research has shown that these types of exercises are not especially accurate, in part because people's stated positions in response to abstract or summative position statements often conflicts with their reactions to the same ideas when they play out in human form.
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McParadigm wrote:Research has shown that these types of exercises are not especially accurate, in part because people's stated positions in response to abstract or summative position statements often conflicts with their reactions to the same ideas when they play out in human form.
You can't argue with infographics, McP.
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Just for fun, here are all the options on the scales:

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Laissez-Faire	Capitalist	Market	Centrist	Egalitarian	Socialist	Communist
Ultra-Militarist	Militarist	Hawkish	Balanced	Dovish	Pacifist	Ultra-Pacifist
Totalitarian	Authoritarian	Statist	Moderate	Liberal	Libertarian	Anarchist
Reactionary	Very Traditional	Traditional	Neutral	Progressive	Very Progressive	Revolutionary


And here's a list of all the ideologies it's cooked up that I could find, in alphabetical order:

Anarcho-Capitalism
Anarcho-Communism
Anarcho-Egoism
Capitalist Fascism
Centrist
Christian Democracy
Conservatism
Distributism
Fundamentalism
Global Totalitarianism
Left-Wing Populism
Leninism
Liberalism
Libertarian Communism
Libertarian Socialism
Marxism
Moderate Conservatism
National Totalitarianism
Nazism
Neo-Conservatism
Neo-Liberalism
Reactionary
Religious Anarchism
Religious Socialism
Right-Wing Populism
Social Liberalism
Social Libertarianism
Stalinism/Maoism
State Capitalism
Technocracy
Theocratic Distributism
Theocratic Socialism
Totalitarian Capitalism
Trotskyism
Ultra-Capitalism
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ABNorman wrote:
McParadigm wrote:Research has shown that these types of exercises are not especially accurate, in part because people's stated positions in response to abstract or summative position statements often conflicts with their reactions to the same ideas when they play out in human form.
You can't argue with infographics, McP.
From a web developer standpoint, it's built very cleanly.
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Economic:Market
Diplomatic: Pacifist
Civil:Libertarian
Societal:Progressive
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Results
Economic Axis: Centrist

48.1%
51.9%

Diplomatic Axis: Balanced

52.6%
47.4%

Civil Axis: Moderate

53.0%
47.0%

Societal Axis: Progressive

39.2%
60.8%

Closest Match: Centrist
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McParadigm wrote:Research has shown that these types of exercises are not especially accurate, in part because people's stated positions in response to abstract or summative position statements often conflicts with their reactions to the same ideas when they play out in human form.
But are they more or less accurate? I would assume that people are more honest when the dont have to feel judged (silent Tory)
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