Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Oversimplification: You Know You Want To

Today's blue plate abstraction special: Political Affiliation.

Here's a decent web site for finding out where you're firmly entrenched on a political scale based on a handful of questions:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/questionnaire

What's nice is that this site adds another dimension to the equation beyond mere left vs. right, which helps us, as mentioned in the link, differentiate between lefties like Stalin and Ghandi. Admit it, you thought they agreed on everything.

And here's where I landed, somewhat north-northeast of Ghandi, but pretty moderate overall (hence my proclivity for sweeping generalizations):

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-3.13&soc=-4.00

Feel free to post your personal 'score' as a comment so I can berate you for your ignorance. Or berate me for my ignorance. It's really up to you.

3 Comments:

At 7:03 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great minds think alike...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-3.00&soc=-1.85

...hippy.

 
At 7:04 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Try this link

And you're still a hippy.

 
At 3:10 PM, Blogger sharisse anne said...

So bum, I did it... and you can't be too suprised at the results.

 

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