You can do the quiz yourself here.You can see my own results below, but once again these results suggest to me the imbecility of the one-dimensional left-right political spectrum. "Centre-right," "far-right," "centre-left." These very results, plotted for three different variables on a left-right axis, show that for anything substantive the left-right axis is insufficient to describe a complex political position. On the other hand, if you plot a chart with one axis representing Economic Freedom and the other Political Freedom and measure a person's position on the resulting two-dimensional chart, a much more accurate result is obtained. (See left, for example.)
Anyway, on to my own results for this quiz. My party preference (according to the quiz) is:
Liberal 73%, National Party 61%, Labour Party/One Nation 59%, Democrats 53%, and Greens 39%.
And for the three 'left-right' variables:
- on 'political outlook' my "broad political orientation score is 25.2%, which equates to a ‘Centre Right’ position";
- on 'economic outlook' my "economic policy score score is 83.2%. This equates to a ‘Far Right’ position";
- on 'social policy' my "social policy score is 68.8%. This equates to a ‘Right’ position"; and
- on 'traditional values' my "traditional values score is -67%. This equates to a ‘Left’ position."
LINKS: Australian politics test - The Oz Politics Blog
Cue card libertarianism - political spectrum - Not PC
NZ's political spectrum - Not PC
RELATED: Politics-Australian, Cue_Card_Libertarianism, Politics, Libertarianism
2 comments:
But this one isn't one dimensional! I'm surprised you are only -67% on the traditional values scale.
DenMT's fantastic scores:
Greens 95.8% (unsurprisingly I am a Green voter) to the low of 16.9% for 'One Nation' (interesting that NZ has no true analogue for this party - something to be thankful for).
Your broad political orientation score is -70.7%, which equates to a ‘Left’ position.
Your economic policy score score is -43.4%. This equates to a ‘Left’ position.
Your social policy score is -67.4%. This equates to a ‘Left’ position.
Your traditional values score is -97.1%. This equates to a ‘Far Left’ position.
So, in other words, no surprises... Kinda jarring to have the term 'far-left' crop in association with any of my views, but it's only the 'traditional values' score.
DenMT
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