Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Some links to cool political surveys

The Political Brew Gauge - pretty neat quiz, each question has five possibile answers detailing how gov't should deal with certain situations.

Politopia - another quiz with five possible answers. The results are in a neat format, where it shows a map with names of various politicians and celebrities. The people you live by depend on how you answer the quiz. I lived somewhere by Drew Carey.

Political Compass - Pretty comprehensive survey, and answers are based on a spectrum of "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree"

World's Smallest Political Quiz A very popular quiz put out by the libertarian group The Advocates. There are 10 questions, 5 in social, 5 in economics. A little simplistic, but fun to take nonetheless. I answered alot of maybe's in the social section, and many yes's in the economics, so that rated me a libertarian.

I like all of these quizzes because they look at politics on a 2-D map, one dimension for social issues and one dimension for economic issues. They all recognize that politics is not just a line spectrum of left-right, even though there are many that fall along this line (either liberal in both economics and social issues, or conservative in both of these areas).

2 comments:

Josh said...

I'm a centrist.

Chance said...

Hey romablog. Thanks for visiting! I currently do not know of any 3d tests, but I have not really looked yet. That would be pretty cool. What do you imagine would be the third dimension? I could see it as maybe foreign policy, and/or privacy vs. counterterrorism measures which don't quite align into moral/economic issures.