The simply-named Political Survey is an attempt to make a two-axis political survey that is more open and unbiased than that provided by The Political Compass. Though its methods are certainly more transparent than the magic used behind the scenes for The Political Compass, the Political Survey is somewhat harder to interpret, due largely to its refusal to apply arbitrary interpretation to its results. I do prefer the Survey to the Compass for its presentation of the results, which includes a complete run-down on how you answered each question (something sorely lacking in the Compass).
In any case, here’s how I come up on the Survey.
left/right: -4.6788 (-0.2816)
pragmatism: 2.2258 ( 0.1340)
Tim Lambert is charting Political Survey results, as well as results from the Political Compass. It’s interesting to see the results of graphing the general blogging community, an admittedly small and imperfect cross-section of society at large. Bloggers make a terrible general sample of the community, but taken within the blogosphere itself, it’s still interesting to note the amount of variation in voices and opinions online; even though bloggers tend to clump a bit in one area of either chart, there’s still a wide variety of opinion.
via NTKnow
