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Where Are You in the Political Spectrum?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus10/28/2012 9:50:19 pm PDT

I landed at:
Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

Which puts me right on top of Nelson Mandela.

I do believe there is quite a bit of artificial choices in these tests, such as:

Multinational companies are unethically exploiting the plant genetic resources of developing countries.

Which doesn’t really have a yes or no kind of answer as there are so many companies, large and small, that use genetic resources of so many nations, trying to generalize over this issue is misleading.

Much more telling would be to give specific examples, such as from court cases, and ask the participant to judge the case to favor one side or another.

I also think that ultimately trying to divide up one’s views into this two dimensional structure can’t truly represent the complexity of humanity.

Finally, I notice all of us so far are ending up in the lower left corner. Is this evidence of group selection?