Mike Hord wrote:

>>> >    Economic Left/Right: -2.75
>>> >    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10
>>>
>>> Economic Left/Right: -6.38
>>> Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.90
>>> 
>>
>> Economic Left/Right: -4.63
>> Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.28
> 
> Turns out I'm a little south-east of the Dalai Lama...

I'm in the same neighborhood... 
Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

Is there anybody /not/ ending up around that area? :)

And why are the major players in http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection
(and in other countries, too) in the opposite area? 
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Howard wrote:
> > I do miss a religious versus secular dimension!
> 
> Me too - I'd be way away from the Dalai Lama if they had that  :-)

Buddhism is different in some key areas from the triumvirate
Judaism/Christianism/Islam. In that compass, these are typically way up
north, whereas you find the Dalai Lama not by accident in the south. You
may still not end up too far away, even with such a dimension. 
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Wouter and Howard wrote:
> > Yuk, yet another USA-centric website :(
> 
> Indeed, [...]

Hm... Did you guys read the FAQ? Clue: watch the spelling :)

Also from http://www.politicalcompass.org/seminars: "The ideas behind The
Political Compass - presented in a lively, challenging and entertaining way
by a UK-based speaker...available for travel anywhere , with sufficient
notice."

The whois output for the site domain:

Registrant Name:Jonathan Pagel
Registrant Organization:Pagel Ltd
Registrant Street1:22 Penford Gardens
Registrant Street2:Eltham
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:London
Registrant State/Province:London
Registrant Postal Code:SE96HW
Registrant Country:GB
Registrant Phone:+44.88594847
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Howard:
> [...] and where did Fascist become Neo-Libertarian?  :-#

Where's that written?

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Interesting also Wikipedia's discussion page to the relevant entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Political_compass. Among other things,
someone thought that the questions are designed to elicit answers with an
authoritarian bias...

OTOH these guys
http://triptronix.net/ishbadiddle/archives/2002/12/10/14.35.37/ seem to
think the test is designed to give "left and libertarian" results. To which
our results here seem to add more evidence :)

Gerhard

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