[matmat]

NickRW, on Nov 26 2008, 04:44 PM, said:

helene_t, on Nov 26 2008, 11:30 AM, said:

Blue=Europe (yes, including Britain, sorry if someone feel offended )

Why would we be offended? Like quite a lot of other Brits (from all political tendencies as far as I can see) I am rather sceptical that the 'European Agenda' is in either Britains' or, indeed, Europes' best interests. However, personally speaking, I am certainly not offended at being considered to be European.

Brits tend to have some inappropriate stereotypical views of other nationalities - but we're not the only ones by a long way!

Nick

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RZUOkGxGUVs

[Winstonm]

helene_t, on Nov 26 2008, 09:11 PM, said:

Hey Winston, good to see you! Where have you been?

Self-imposed banishment for too many bad Palin jokes.

[NickRW]

matmat, on Nov 27 2008, 04:15 AM, said:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RZUOkGxGUVs

ROFL

[shintaro]

trouble with the 'yes minister series' was its uncanny resemblence to truth

[Elianna]

helene_t, on Nov 26 2008, 03:30 AM, said:

Red=US
Blue=Europe (yes, including Britain, sorry if someone feel offended )
Green=Others

I did t-test and F-test for US versus Europe. The only trend that is significant is that w.r.t. economics left/right, variance is higher among US'ians than among Europeans. p=0.01888

Which category did I fit in?

I'm a US citizen, a european citizen, and an other citizen

[Gerben42]

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I'm a US citizen, a european citizen, and an other citizen

Really, which countries then?

[helene_t]

Elianna, on Nov 27 2008, 05:50 PM, said:

helene_t, on Nov 26 2008, 03:30 AM, said:

Red=US
Blue=Europe (yes, including Britain, sorry if someone feel offended )
Green=Others

I did t-test and F-test for US versus Europe. The only trend that is significant is that w.r.t. economics left/right, variance is higher among US'ians than among Europeans. p=0.01888

Which category did I fit in?

I'm a US citizen, a european citizen, and an other citizen

sorry, didnt think about it. I put you in the US group. I suppose I was subconsciously afraid that it would undermine the conclusion if I didn't

[Elianna]

Gerben42, on Nov 27 2008, 10:04 AM, said:

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I'm a US citizen, a european citizen, and an other citizen

Really, which countries then?

US, Germany, Israel

[Al_U_Card]

DrTodd13, on Nov 25 2008, 08:06 PM, said:

kenberg, on Nov 24 2008, 12:02 PM, said:

Economic: -2.88
Social: -4.51

I was disappointed to find there was no question asking for agreement/disagreement with "Tests such as this one are a crock of *****". Probably that would have moved my social score a bit to the left. But then I have not until now been placed in the moral proximity of Gandhi so maybe I should not complain.

Written by someone with some blinders on for sure. I would have taken the test but it is impossible to complete when there are multiple choice questions where I don't agree with any of the possible answers.

I found the test to have quite a bit of inherent bias. It would be interesting to "reformulate" the questions in a less leading and more neutral fashion. Might give us a better idea of where we really sit relative to one another.

viz


If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.

becomes

Economic globalization will eventually and primarily serve the interests of the trans-national corporations that support and employ it.

Anyone else for the others?

[helene_t]

Al_U_Card, on Nov 28 2008, 03:36 PM, said:

Anyone else for the others?

A recent debate here in Lancaster was about whether people who feed pigeons should get fined. Support for such a rule would be a clue that one is authoritarian.

I think such concrete questions would be more useful than more abstract ones. Also, they plotted politicians on the map based on their voting behavior. So if they want to make the web users' responses comparable to the politicians, they should ask us how we would vote on concrete issues.

Of course concrete issues tend to be geography specific. It may not make much sense to plot you and me on the same scale if we "voted" on different issues. And if we voted on similar issues .... feeding pigeons in your town may have different implications than feeding them in my town. But I think that is unavoidable anyway.

[Al_U_Card]

Kind of like:

Your next door neighbour (suburban locale) wants to have a goat in his yard. Should he be prohibited by municipal by-law from doing so?

[matmat]

helene_t, on Nov 28 2008, 09:48 AM, said:

A recent debate here in Lancaster was about whether people who feed pigeons should get fined. Support for such a rule would be a clue that one is authoritarian.

great opportunity for a government to make some $$ here by issuing pigeon-feeding licenses.

[Al_U_Card]

Here in a suburb of Montreal, a man faces a fine for feeding squirrels in a public park. Prohibited by municipal by-law, with court costs etc. it could end up costing about $700...

[crazy4hoop]

Econ: 0.12
Social: -3.54

not that anyone should care...

[kenberg]

fwiw I took this a while back (last November) and scored (econ,social)= (-2.88,-4.51)

Today I scored (-1.88,-4.15)

I guess there is some reasonable consistency in the scores.

I can't say I much like being in roughly the same area as Dennis Kucinich.

[OleBerg]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.79

[jdonn]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21

[matmat]

obviously there's a conservative bias in this thing... being socially and fiscally progressive is assumed to be negative.

[jdonn]

kenberg, on Oct 3 2009, 11:48 AM, said:

Today I scored (-1.88,-4.15)

I can't say I much like being in roughly the same area as Dennis Kucinich.

You think that's bad?

jdonn, on Oct 3 2009, 06:00 PM, said:

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21

[Mbodell]

kenberg, on Oct 3 2009, 08:48 AM, said:

I guess there is some reasonable consistency in the scores.

Yeah, I was (-8.00, -7.44) last time we all took this, but am (-7.00, -7.59) this time.

But I see on the scatter plot I was wrongly marked down as US citizen (I live and work in the US but am Canadian), so given I'm a large outlier, maybe the US citizen's are grouped more closely together.