America's political compass

[Hatman 🍁]

You people need to realize how Americans actually act is different from how they would answer on a poll. For example, I suspect most of the people who think I was thinking too liberal put down Agree or Strongly Agree for that sex outside of marriage is immoral. But how many Americans do have sex outside of marriage? Similar for the porn question, how many look at porn? And for the question about sending a kid to a school without religion, I put disagree, because most kids do go to public schools.

and here's Minnesota:

Economic Left/Right: -3.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.21

I said that Americans favoured porn, but I said they think that sex out of marriage is immoral. What they think and what they do is two different thinks however. 

[nclib]

Here's my Bush estimate

8.25 economic, 5.54 social.

Bush is more socially conservative than economically conservative.

[nclib]

The average American is:

Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.87

[MHS2002]

Economic Left/Right: -2.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.51

That's what I got. Not very accurate, I'll admit.

[Cashcow]

Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.15

[Josh/Devilman88]

This is what I got...
 
Economic Left/Right: -0.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.56

[angus]

Take the test from the perspective of what you think the median answer would be in the U.S.

I did and got these interesting but not suprising results:

Economic Left/Right: -0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.00

proving two things:

1-The test actually is a good measure of where the center is
2-But the graphs of where world leaders and parties are are clearly bullsh**t.

This is a perfect example of "intelligent but not mature" or, more precisely, just enough knowledge to be dangerous.  Still, the effort is appreciated.  What you'd need to do, if you wanted relevant information, is get a million randomly selected individuals to take the test, and determine the mean, median, range, and standard deviation of their scores.  Then, as a final gesture of objectivity, toss all those results in the garbage since it's based on that silly "political compass" test. 

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Done this a couple of times (with the U.K as well). Generally speaking (in both cases) the answers are a bit to the left economically and a bit to the right socially. U.K generally a bit to the left of U.S, although not by a great deal overall; some big differences on a couple of questions though.