On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:58:23 -0800 (PST), wrote:

> On Jan 22, 11:02*am, blake murphy > wrote:
>
>> <http://www.politicalcompass.org/>
>>
>> frankly, i'm not sure how useful it is, but you are right that the
>> single-line 'right' versus 'left' isn't terribly descriptive.
>
> I retook the test. The last time I was at something like -9,45 on the
> economic scale, and -4,5 on the social scale.
>
> Now:
>
> Economic Left/Right: -9.88
> Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.41
>
> http://www.politicalcompass.org/prin...9.88&soc=-8.41
>
> But the question is: what are they measuring and for who? If their
> median is based on US opinions (which tend to be right wing on the
> whole), then the inherent bias would naturally make opinions on the
> left appear to be extreme.
>

i can't really answer that, but here's a snippet from the
comments/complaints the

*Some of the propositions are culturally biased*

Right. That's why the Compass is being promoted in western democracies. We
don't pretend that, for example, the responses of a citizen of a rural
region of China can undergo the same evaluation process.

from a complaint about spelling, it becomes obvious that the authors are in
the u.k. somewhere. they do have pointers to some charts for candidates in
recent canada, new zealand, australia, and u.s. elections, and some general
charts for the e.u. national governments on their f.a.q. page:

<http://www.politicalcompass.org/faq#faq1>

your pal,
blake