Invictus, fine, I am in my thirties.

That's so depressing.

And way to just shrug off being totally wrong about there being fewer recessions in the nineteenth century.

What's depressing?

I haven't even looked at it yet

Oh, and Klein, you should take the political compass test. You might just surpass nigeebaby in socialism

You're neither too young nor too old for it to be OK that you're so misguided. That's what's depressing. I could be ten years younger than you, since I'm just exiting my early twenties.

How is constitutionalism misguided? Are you suggesting that we establish a dictatorship?

Invictus, give it up.

I usually oscillate within -1.0 -4.0 and 1.0 -6.0 since I'm bloody neutral.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart.php?showform=&Sbyvl36=7.9%2C3.9&Krellin=1.8%2C-3.0&Bo+Sox+48=-7.0%2C-7.1&Yellow+Jacket=-5.9%2C-5.5&Abgemacht=-4.8%2C-3.2&Krellys+Wife=1.0%2C-0.5&Philcore=0.6%2C-2.4&Fasces349=8.1%2C-1.5&Dipplayer=2.9%2C-1.1&Invictus=1.8%2C0.4&Goldfinger=-2.0%2C3.0&Nigeebaby=-8.3%2C-6.4&Sunra=-8.3%2C-6.6&Jacobcfries=-6.1%2C-5.4&President+Eden=7.5%2C-5.2&Redhouse=0.8%2C-0.8&Semck83=5.5%2C-2.3&Orathaic=-6.1%2C-6.8&Nudge=-2.9%2C-0.6&Hereward=0.9%2C1.2&Thucydides=-4.9%2C-5.7&Damian+=4.3%2C-5.5&Mujus=-5.4%2C-3.0&Octavious=-1.3%2C0.2&Mendax=-8.1%2C-7.2&Benjormungand=9.0%2C-6.1&Slyster=-3.5%2C-5.3&Kingrishard=-2.5%2C-0.8&Obiwanobiwan=-5.5%2C-4.8&newname=ulytau&newec=0.89&newsoc=-5.79

Has anyone tried this test: http://www.politicaltest.net/test/ . Aside from a few poorly constructed questions, mostly due to poor grammar. It's not half bad, and they have some nice analysis of the distribution of results on another page on the site. Though they don't really define their terms, so perhaps I'm being over generous. My results : http://www.politicaltest.net/test/result/366340

It's a german website, so it's not surprising the grammar is a little dodgy.

As for me: "You are a social democratic Cosmopolitan. 10 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 4 percent are more extremist than you." SO that sounds about right.

http://www.politicaltest.net/test/result/366348/

This one is pretty good, mendax, can you link your results so we can see exactly were you stand?

http://www.politicaltest.net/test/result/366351 - I'd thought I'd posted it in the previous post, but apparently not.

I seem to be the most Libertarian person yet.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart.php?showform=&Sbyvl36=7.9%2C3.9&Krellin=1.8%2C-3.0&Bo+Sox+48=-7.0%2C-7.1&Yellow+Jacket=-5.9%2C-5.5&Abgemacht=-4.8%2C-3.2&Krellys+Wife=1.0%2C-0.5&Philcore=0.6%2C-2.4&Fasces349=8.1%2C-1.5&Dipplayer=2.9%2C-1.1&Invictus=1.8%2C0.4&Goldfinger=-2.0%2C3.0&Nigeebaby=-8.3%2C-6.4&Sunra=-8.3%2C-6.6&Jacobcfries=-6.1%2C-5.4&President+Eden=7.5%2C-5.2&Redhouse=0.8%2C-0.8&Semck83=5.5%2C-2.3&Orathaic=-6.1%2C-6.8&Nudge=-2.9%2C-0.6&Hereward=0.9%2C1.2&Thucydides=-4.9%2C-5.7&Damian+=4.3%2C-5.5&Mujus=-5.4%2C-3.0&Octavious=-1.3%2C0.2&Mendax=-8.1%2C-7.2&Benjormungand=9.0%2C-6.1&Slyster=-3.5%2C-5.3&Kingrishard=-2.5%2C-0.8&Obiwanobiwan=-5.5%2C-4.8&Ulytau=0.9%2C-5.8&newname=TheMinisterOfWar&newec=-3.38&newsoc=-7.54

http://www.politicaltest.net/test/graphic2/366380_eng.jpg

"You are a capitalist. 1 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 2 percent are more extremist than you."

shock level: -4

Everytime I read the OP, I read "Where do you fail?" :-)

Ahhh, this sounds much more like me.

You are a Neo-Conservative. 2 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 16 percent are more extremist than you.

@GF: Link to your test results so I can see exactly where you stand?

http://www.politicaltest.net/test/result/366395/

@Eden: You and me have near identical results:
Cosmopolitan: 43% vs 47%
Secuar: 72% vs 50%
Visionary: 22% vs 10%
Capitalist: 87% vs 78%
Anarchist: 55% vs 49%
Pacifist: 72% vs 71%
Anthropocentric: 50% vs 74%

Seems we share the same views, and almost identically for some of the options.

Your more secular then me because for most of the religious options I was only hitting agree not strongly agree, and I'm probably more Anthropocentric for the same reason.

I'm surprised your more capitalist then me, because I answer very capitalist in most questions, I'm not sure where I lost points, lol

It's about emphasis, I think. 4/5 of my weighted responses concerned economics, and their philosophical lean is probably pretty predictable. You're right wrt religious questions, I don't think I came across a single one where I had enough hesitancy on hitting "disagree completely" or "strongly agree." I'd imagine the same thing happened in reverse wrt environmental questions.

lol at pacifist 72 vs 71

Oh, did I mess up anything by not using weights?

You're likely going to appear more moderate than you would otherwise (unless you were to put all your weights onto questions which you answered "neutral," in which case you might appear less moderate than you really are).

@PE: 4/5 were economic for me too. I relooked at the questions, the ones were I wasn't the perfect capitalist on was:
"Education is common property, which has to be accessible free of charge for every citizen."
I put strongly agree

"Employees have taken way too much liberty towards their employers by now."
I was neutral on this one, cause I don't know what the fuck this is asking me, lol

@GF: Not much, just mean you placed a higher value on those beliefs then the others.

http://www.politicaltest.net/test/result/366404/

http://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart.php?showform=&Sbyvl36=7.9%2C3.9&Krellin=1.8%2C-3.0&Bo+Sox+48=-7.0%2C-7.1&Yellow+Jacket=-5.9%2C-5.5&Abgemacht=-4.8%2C-3.2&Krellys+Wife=1.0%2C-0.5&Philcore=0.6%2C-2.4&Fasces349=8.1%2C-1.5&Dipplayer=2.9%2C-1.1&Invictus=1.8%2C0.4&Goldfinger=-2.0%2C3.0&Nigeebaby=-8.3%2C-6.4&Sunra=-8.3%2C-6.6&Jacobcfries=-6.1%2C-5.4&President+Eden=7.5%2C-5.2&Redhouse=0.8%2C-0.8&Semck83=5.5%2C-2.3&Orathaic=-6.1%2C-6.8&Nudge=-2.9%2C-0.6&Hereward=0.9%2C1.2&Thucydides=-4.9%2C-5.7&Damian+=4.3%2C-5.5&Mujus=-5.4%2C-3.0&Octavious=-1.3%2C0.2&Mendax=-8.1%2C-7.2&Benjormungand=9.0%2C-6.1&Slyster=-3.5%2C-5.3&Kingrishard=-2.5%2C-0.8&Obiwanobiwan=-5.5%2C-4.8&Ulytau=0.9%2C-5.8&newname=Socrates+Dissatisfied&newec=-9.88&newsoc=-6.46
for a real result there :P. i do think the test is flawed though with the authoritarian/libertarian questions, i am quite for the individual, but i do hold many views that favour regimes like cuba with various restrictions on western freedoms.

Yeah I went the opposite direction on the education question, fasces. Depending on emphases (guess I'll have to go back and look!), that could account for it alone, though I doubt it (iirc I didn't emphasize that one). I also went neutral on the employer/employee question; it's basically asking for how you view the power dynamic between employers and employees (do employees have too much power now, or not?) and I went neutral because that question is too broad, and my experience too narrow, to give a general statement on

What was your non-economic one? I'm guessing "Violence is never the answer" because that's what I did and our pacifist scores are virtually identical.

http://www.politicaltest.net/test/result/366407/

I am a bourgeois patriot, apparently... Sounds like an effeminate missile...

Fun initiative to try map the Diplomacy players politically, but...

These questions are so silly-stupid it makes my stomach turn.
I'd think The diplomacy community should be intelligent enough to be laughing at these questions, or blushing at what is the typical leftist-biased nonsense "ideological" wanking.
We need go no further than the first question.
"Economic globalisation should serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations".
"Serve humanity". Well, that is easy to say and it says nothing concrete, nothing specific unless it should be interpreted as "serve human beings against other species of the earth".
Obviously a proponent for trans-national corporation argues with the view that these corporations serve humanity, not because they are an end in themselves.
I am no lover of trans-national corporations, but the logical alternative to them is not to "serve humanity" instead. That's why I blush. Which such stupidity in the leftist camp, we'll have to stay with the trans-nationals...

That's the first question and they're all of the same quality. I completed the test, landed with Mandela, pretty close to Philcore, and Hi Krellin... I knew you wouldn't fail me... :D
But it's all nonsense anyway. I'd land close to the middle anyhow simply because of the stupidity of the questions.