The questions are not professionally chosen. For example the one which asks whether it is fine to beat up your kids, is unlikely to yield an honest answer 
We need more aircraft owners to have a go at this.
Cobalt wrote:
What I find most interesting is that my perception of peoples’ attitudes on the libertarian-authoritarian was directionally correct, but they are less pronounced than what I thought they would be.
Oh well…
And for some question it is completely unclear what they have to do with the two dimensions (e.g. the question on religion). But anyway it’s fun.
Looking at all the result posted here it makes me wonder what you have to answer to be in the right/authoritarian segment
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Since I’m not a great believer in free will I think I woke up this morning with a subconscious desire to go and fly from my lovely green field. The X-wind from the right blew me be a bit off-centre though.
Since private flying is connected with personal freedom, I’m not surprised that almost all “compasses” so far have been on the libertarian side.
I’m more surprised that there is also a clear tendency towards the left. Of course it depends on how you calibrate the centre. If you look all the whole (western) world then it’s not so surprising since on the economic scale Europe (this is EuroGA, after all) is generally to the left of the US. (As MedEwok has already observed.)
I actually think the 2D depiction of political beliefs is still incomplete. There are even better models which take into account that some people, myself included, are more liberal regarding personal freedoms than economic freedoms.
Has anyone every played the webgame NationStates ? It is a very simple webgame where you can create a fictional country, with you as a ruler, and shape it through answering so called “issues”.
The game itself is very slow and the gameplay not very complex at all, although an entire subculture has developed which is very expansive. But what NationStates does well, and why I mention it, is creating a “3D” model of political beliefs. Here you can see the three axis and how NationStates classifies the player’s nations in accordance to where they fall on these three axis:
For the record, my nation in the game, which I created back in 2003 when this game was new, tends to be a “liberal democratic socialist” nation: libertarian regarding political freedom, authoritarian regarding economic freedom and moderate regarding personal freedoms. I am sure that e.g. @Airborne_Again would end up as “scandinavian liberal paradise” (nomen est omen) while @Silvaire would probably tend to “capitalist paradise” and @Peter to “New York Times Democracy”
Most nations somehow end up being “inoffensive centrist democracies” btw…
That was good fun….Not where I would have put myself but it must be accurate
He he. Fun stuff.
Interesting. No wonder I never discussed politics when I lived in Texas!
