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« on: January 04, 2017, 12:51:19 AM »

I just stumbled upon an interesting political test called Spekr, which is composed of 100 questions, the standard left-right scale, and a graph with four sections.

My results were -58 Economic and -62 Social, indicating that I am a "Libertarian Socialist." What were your results? And what did you think of the test?
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Mr. Smith
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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2017, 02:21:45 AM »

"Social Democrat"

+5 Social/Cultural, -58 Economic.

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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2017, 04:12:05 AM »

Liberal

-66 Cultural
+1 Economic
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2017, 05:16:48 AM »
« Edited: January 04, 2017, 05:27:08 AM by Intell »

Social Democrat

-82 Economic
- 27 Cultural
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2017, 07:16:28 AM »

Social Democrat

-50 Economic
-12 Social

About what I would have said



I've known about this test for a while - a friend of mine compulsively took this while trying to convert me to libertarianism. Let's say that last part didn't work out. Tongue
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2017, 07:26:49 AM »
« Edited: January 04, 2017, 07:40:51 AM by RIP Jante's Law, FF »

Halfway through it, and this test is awful. Almost all the questions are about bland, generic, meaningless-out-of-context statements rather than actual policies people can have actual opinions on.

Edit: I got -67 / -16, ftr.
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2017, 08:24:48 AM »

Economic: 47
Social: -42

Libertarian Capitalist.
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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2017, 08:35:13 AM »

Libertarian Socialism

Cultural: -82
Economic: -68
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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2017, 08:42:52 AM »

e:+62
s:-69
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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2017, 09:15:05 AM »

e: -74
s: -30

But the test is awful, absolutely full of loaded questions that are designed to make you respond one way of the other; or out of context remarks that grossly simplify complex opinions.
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Mr. Reactionary
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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2017, 09:44:34 AM »

- 60 social
+40 economic
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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2017, 10:00:28 AM »
« Edited: January 04, 2017, 10:06:05 AM by Santander »

Economic: 34
Cultural: 33

Authoritarian Capitalist

I do prefer the more scientific term True Conservative™ though.
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« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2017, 10:19:29 AM »

Economic: -62
Cultural: +32

Authoritarian Socialist.

Boy, were those questions leading...at first I was wondering was people were talking about, but 10 questions in, it got pretty bad.
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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2017, 10:56:27 AM »

Economic 50
Social -50

Libertarian Capitalist.
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« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2017, 11:05:21 AM »

Economic 10, Cultural 54=progressive ayy lmao
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« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2017, 11:16:09 AM »

E: -27
C: 12

"Centrist"
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« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2017, 11:28:04 AM »

I got Liberal -7/-40-something

This test was pretty vague and misephasized things.
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« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2017, 11:50:48 AM »

Halfway through it, and this test is awful. Almost all the questions are about bland, generic, meaningless-out-of-context statements rather than actual policies people can have actual opinions on.

Edit: I got -67 / -16, ftr.

While these objections are undeniably true, I think the results are fairly accurate. It seems most people here who took the test would concur.
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« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2017, 11:55:41 AM »

Halfway through it, and this test is awful. Almost all the questions are about bland, generic, meaningless-out-of-context statements rather than actual policies people can have actual opinions on.

Edit: I got -67 / -16, ftr.

While these objections are undeniably true, I think the results are fairly accurate. It seems most people here who took the test would concur.

We are ideology-obsessed people who are psychologically affected by the number changing on the left whether we want to be or not. It would likely not be accurate for the population at-large swayed by the bias in the statements.
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« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2017, 11:56:02 AM »

Halfway through it, and this test is awful. Almost all the questions are about bland, generic, meaningless-out-of-context statements rather than actual policies people can have actual opinions on.

Edit: I got -67 / -16, ftr.

While these objections are undeniably true, I think the results are fairly accurate. It seems most people here who took the test would concur.
Well, I consider myself to be a libertarian, so...
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« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2017, 12:01:26 PM »

Halfway through it, and this test is awful. Almost all the questions are about bland, generic, meaningless-out-of-context statements rather than actual policies people can have actual opinions on.

Edit: I got -67 / -16, ftr.

While these objections are undeniably true, I think the results are fairly accurate. It seems most people here who took the test would concur.
Well, I consider myself to be a libertarian, so...

Why?
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« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2017, 12:05:22 PM »

Halfway through it, and this test is awful. Almost all the questions are about bland, generic, meaningless-out-of-context statements rather than actual policies people can have actual opinions on.

Edit: I got -67 / -16, ftr.

While these objections are undeniably true, I think the results are fairly accurate. It seems most people here who took the test would concur.
Well, I consider myself to be a libertarian, so...

Why?
Freedom.
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« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2017, 12:15:59 PM »

"Liberal"
Economic: 26
Cultural:  -31
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« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2017, 12:19:39 PM »

Halfway through it, and this test is awful. Almost all the questions are about bland, generic, meaningless-out-of-context statements rather than actual policies people can have actual opinions on.

Edit: I got -67 / -16, ftr.

While these objections are undeniably true, I think the results are fairly accurate. It seems most people here who took the test would concur.
Well, I consider myself to be a libertarian, so...

Why?
Freedom.

Libertarianism implies a certain amount of nihilism and willingness to see the world burn. I guess that matches your perspective enough.
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« Reply #24 on: January 04, 2017, 01:22:11 PM »

Centrist

Economic: 16
Cultural: -10
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