{"id":600,"date":"2002-06-27T04:49:29","date_gmt":"2002-06-27T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/27\/political-compass\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:47:00","slug":"political-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/27\/political-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"Political compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting online test &#8212; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\/politicalcompass\/index.html\" title=\"Political Compass\">Political Compass<\/a> that adds a vertical Authoritarian\/Libertarian line to the traditional horizontal Left\/Right line and uses a series of questions to map out your political position. I ended up with 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=\"Political Compass: my position\">-6.12\/-5.90<\/a>, which puts me in the same rough area as Ghandi, from the looks of it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\/politicalcompass\/analysis.html\" title=\"Political Compass: Analysis\">Here&#8217;s the analysis<\/a>, though they recommend that you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\/politicalcompass\/questionnaire.pl?page=1\" title=\"Political Compass: take the test\">take the test<\/a> before reading it.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccablood.net\/archive\/2002\/06.html#25compass\" title=\"What's in Rebecca's pocket?\">Rebecca Blood<\/a>)<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:16053,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\\\/politicalcompass\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12877,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\\\/politicalcompass\\\/questionnaire.pl?page=printable_graph\\u0026X=-6.12\\u0026Y=-5.90&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16054,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\\\/politicalcompass\\\/analysis.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081122010459\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\\\/politicalcompass\\\/analysis.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:38:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 00:04:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 16:01:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 11:07:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 19:44:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-04 12:46:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-26 03:53:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 07:25:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 16:38:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 16:38:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16055,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\\\/politicalcompass\\\/questionnaire.pl?page=1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160311003348\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.digitalronin.f2s.com\\\/politicalcompass\\\/questionnaire.pl?page=1&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:38:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 00:04:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 16:01:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 11:07:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 19:44:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-04 12:46:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-26 03:53:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 07:25:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 16:38:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 16:38:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16056,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.rebeccablood.net\\\/archive\\\/2002\\\/06.html#25compass&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting online test &#8212; 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