Calling all English Teachers and Expats!

I'm slightly left, slightly liberal
I'm interesting in collecting the 'ideologies' of fellow English teachers and expats in general. I've taken this online quiz

Political Compass

If any of the readers here take the test, let me know your results and I'll put them all on one graph to see if anything interesting emerges!

This quiz has been around a while but it's good and so you know, my ideology stands at

Economic Left/Right: -0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.72 


 

19 comments:

  1. Anonymous11 February 2011 at 19:49

    Intreresting test,
    my results:
    Economic Left/Right: -0.38
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.26

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  2. Pan Steeva11 February 2011 at 20:29

    My result gives me economic -2.50, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -3.49.

    However, unless the questions are extremely cleverly constructed, I feel that I have answered many questions strongly agree/disagree just because the question does not ask for my view about the subject, but gives alternatives that give me answers that do not seem to me to be judgemental.

    For instance, "No one can feel naturally homosexual". I know that people do feel naturally homosexual, so I strongly disagree. Did they want my view on homosexuality?

    "It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society". Since everyone contributes to society in some way or other, I must strongly disagree with the idea that their (non-) existence is regrettable. It is such a loaded question, that I can't even guess what opinion they were trying to test. Are these horrible people bad? Are there lots of these horrible people? Is it a good thing that horrible people make lots of money?

    As I say, the questions could be very clever, but I am sceptical.

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  3. Luke11 February 2011 at 21:17

    Economic Left/Right: 0.62
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.05

    Looking at other links on that site it would appear all European governments are right wing with differing degress of authoritarianism.

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  4. Beeline11 February 2011 at 21:33

    Economic Left/Right: 0.62
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.46

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  5. Martin G11 February 2011 at 21:59

    My results are

    Economic Left/Right: -1.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67

    Pretty interesting, although I'd usually view myself as more economically right than where its put me, but on the libertarian side its about right.

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  6. Phil M11 February 2011 at 22:26

    Economic Left/Right: -1.50
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.31
    Which puts me somewhere between Stalin and Ghandi .... cool

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  7. TeflSecretagent11 February 2011 at 22:32

    The trend is defo looking like we're all liberal left wingers around here!

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  8. Eve12 February 2011 at 01:51

    Economic Left/Right: -8.75
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54

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  9. Agnieszka12 February 2011 at 08:33

    Economic Left/Right: -4.12
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.10

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  10. Anonymous12 February 2011 at 13:48

    Economic Left/Right: -7.00
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

    I'm obviously growing up a little bit as I race towards 40! I used to be so left that I wouldn't even have been on the graph!

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  11. Jeremy15 February 2011 at 21:32

    Economic Left/Right: -5.00
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.28

    Places me as the neo-Ghandi, I feel very proud :)

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  12. Unknown16 February 2011 at 21:35

    Economic Left/Right: -4.25
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

    I like quizzes like these, for what they're worth :).

    Nice blog, I don't think I've stumbled by here in the past. When I do my blog updates this weekend I'll make sure I link to you.

    K

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  13. TeflSecretagent17 February 2011 at 07:20

    Cheers for all your results boys and girls.

    Based on my results and a few beers I decided to join the Lib Dem political party in the U.K. so maybe I can begin to understand my liberal ideas revealed to me through this internet quiz!

    I think I should make more life decisions based on internet quizs...

    Kolin - Thanks and I'll add you to my blog roll!

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  14. Jeremy17 February 2011 at 22:01

    maybe they should use that as a slogan at the next elections "Get drunk, join the Lib Dems!"

    I'm with them all the way, to the point where they say get rid of Trident and install PR. Then I’m afraid I have to differ.

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  15. TeflSecretagent17 February 2011 at 23:34

    We must be liked minded Jeremy because that's exactly how I feel.

    I'm so pro-Trident it's unreal, I'm even considering writing a post about it. I'm spending a little bit of time 'lurking' on the Lib Dem forums trying to coerce people into my pro-Trident point of view.

    But to be honest, I realised that many Lib Dem supporters are pro-nuclear weapons, they are only not that keen on Trident as the way to deliver them. The problem is, Trident is expensive and cheaper options are availiable, for example the current Astute submarines could easily be equipped to deploy the British deterrant.

    I think Nick Clegg was clever about has position around Trident during the elections - he only ruled out a like for like replacement allowing him to grab the 'Hippy', 'Peace loving' vote :P

    Whilst giving him room to back track in the future and keep a nuclear weapon option in Britain's armoury

    But still, I support Trident because even if it is expenisve the cost is spread over many years and Trident gives the British armed forces a reliable and highly credible delivery method. Trident can hit anything, everytime.

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  16. Ruth19 February 2011 at 18:26

    Economic Left/Right: -3.88
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54

    I think I'm about where Ghandi was on the chart :)

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  17. TeflSecretagent12 November 2012 at 10:49

    2012 score-
    Economic Left/Right: -2.12
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77

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  18. TeflSecretagent12 November 2012 at 10:51

    I am becoming more socialist, the more economically stable I become...weird!

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  19. TeflSecretagent28 January 2013 at 21:55

    Early 2013 score-

    Economic Left/Right: -5.75
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36

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