It's interesting/odd that, looking back through this thread (which by eye, excluding duplicates/broken images has about 60-70 results, many of them from O&CE regulars), almost nobody ranks that high up on the social scale - yet there are plenty of authoritarian-leaning voices and opinions on this forum. Particularly in US terms, it seems at odds with much of the discussion in the election/America threads; it looks like all but a handful of people in here fall into this range:
Most people, in the eyes of the test at least, are considerably more liberal than
Clinton, let alone Trump. (despite, amusingly, "liberal" often being used as a derogatory term......)
I wonder why there's this discrepancy. Political Compass doesn't publish their method for positioning the politicians, so we don't know the accuracy of the chart (although it passes basic sanity checks). Assuming it is accurate........do people put disproportionate weight on certain issues close to them, which wouldn't be reflected in the test? Or do people not understand - or care - exactly how politicians represent them (perhaps influenced by rhetoric rather than policy/principle)?
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