{"id":1925,"date":"2003-11-07T10:14:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T02:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/07\/political-compass-redux\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:33:42","slug":"political-compass-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/07\/political-compass-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Compass (redux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Pops&#8217; recent <a href=\"http:\/\/2hrlunch.typepad.com\/bloggo\/2003\/11\/holy_agricultur.html\" title=\"HOLY AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDY BATMAN!\">posts<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/2hrlunch.typepad.com\/bloggo\/2003\/11\/are_we_not_old_.html\" title=\"Are We Not Old Men?\">sheep<\/a>, I wandered over to revisit the political compass.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d taken this test before, back in <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/political_compa.html\" title=\"Political compass\">June of 2002<\/a>, at which point I had a score of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\/politicalcompass\/questionnaire.pl?page=printable_graph&amp;X=-6.12&amp;Y=-5.90\" title=\"my old score\">-6.12\/-5.90<\/a>, decently far into both the Left and Libertarian sides of the graph.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this time, I scored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\/politicalcompass\/questionnaire.pl?page=printable_graph&amp;X=-6.62&amp;Y=-6.41\" title=\"my current score\">-6.62\/-6.41<\/a>, slightly further into the Left and Libertarian sides. Apparently I&#8217;m moving even further left in my old age. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Along with a resurgence of interest in this test, Tim Lambert is <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au\/~lambert\/cgi-bin\/blog\/surveys\/compass.html\" title=\"The Political Compass\">collecting and graphing<\/a> results of various blogger&#8217;s test results. By his table, I&#8217;ll end up in the same general area as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicaltheory.info\/\" title=\"Political Theory Daily Review\">Alfredo Perez<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/beatniksalad.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Beatnik Salad\">Ryan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigpicnic.com\/\" title=\"Big Picnic\">Big Picnic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/home.houston.rr.com\/skeptical\/\" title=\"A Skeptical Blog\">Dominion (James McLaughlin)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\" title=\"Crooked Timber\">Henry Farrell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/invisiblelibrary.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"The Invisible Library\">Keith Kisser<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/magpieblog.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Magpie\">CrowGirl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbarlow.com\/blog\/\" title=\"What You Can Get Away With\">Nick Barlowe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/\" title=\"Pharyngula\">PZ Myers<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/besserwisser.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Besserwisser\">Paul Setzer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Political Compass, I lean even more left and libertarian than I did a year and a half ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043,2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}