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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2003, 12:19:08 PM »
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Wow, I'm beside Nelson Mandela. Not a bad neighborhood.

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21


Yeah, you and he have something in common! I think you can figure it out by his comment in January, 2003 of this year.

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« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2003, 12:26:32 PM »
Economic Left/Right: 0.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.08


I am so close to center on the graph it's silly. There is no one really close but the closest is Gerhard Schroder and he is definitely to the right a significant amount from my graph position.

Now what is the significance? Not much AFAIAC, interesting site however.
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« Reply #17 on: November 17, 2003, 12:37:33 PM »
seems i've changed a bit...

Economic Left/Right: -1.75
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67
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« Reply #18 on: November 17, 2003, 12:37:33 PM »
argh double.
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« Reply #19 on: November 17, 2003, 12:56:28 PM »
5.62, -3.28

Some of those statements are very interesting.  Take the first one:

"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations."

So this presumes that the interests of corporations are necessarily opposite the interests of humanity?  I find this rather odd.

If you are going to assume that corporations will invariably use force and bribery to attain their ends then your answer means a much different thing than if you assume that harmful corporate behavior will be held in check by rule of law.

This statement is kind of like saying:  “"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve the interests of women rather than the interests of men."  The underlying presumption does not necessarily make any sense at all.

I answered:  “Strongly disagree” to the statement:  “The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.”  But I suspect my disagreement takes a completely different form than that of a lot of people who answered the question identically.

Here is a shorter quiz where the questions appear to be somewhat less interpretive:


http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html


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« Last Edit: November 17, 2003, 01:01:48 PM by Hooligan »

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« Reply #20 on: November 17, 2003, 12:59:37 PM »
Jeeeez I'm off the scale!! :D

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

And I vote for a centrist party, go figure :)

I think I'll go found my own religion... or something...
« Last Edit: November 17, 2003, 01:03:18 PM by CyranoAH »

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« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2003, 01:00:30 PM »
Yep... I agree hooligan.  They asked to agree or disagree with drastically extreme views.

I find it odd that someone would find the need to generate a political label maker.

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« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2003, 01:01:42 PM »
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Yeah, you and he have something in common! I think you can figure it out by his comment in January, 2003 of this year.

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« Reply #23 on: November 17, 2003, 01:07:09 PM »
1.12
2.05

Bogus questionaire....too many loaded questions....leans left.

Lends a light to polling data....and we all know the polling data is correct.
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« Reply #24 on: November 17, 2003, 01:21:20 PM »
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5.62, -3.28

Some of those statements are very interesting.  Take the first one:

"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations."

So this presumes that the interests of corporations are necessarily opposite the interests of humanity?  I find this rather odd.

If you are going to assume that corporations will invariably use force and bribery to attain their ends then your answer means a much different thing than if you assume that harmful corporate behavior will be held in check by rule of law.

This statement is kind of like saying:  “"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve the interests of women rather than the interests of men."  The underlying presumption does not necessarily make any sense at all.

I answered:  “Strongly disagree” to the statement:  “The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.”  But I suspect my disagreement takes a completely different form than that of a lot of people who answered the question identically.

Here is a shorter quiz where the questions appear to be somewhat less interpretive:


http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html


Hooligan


My thoughts exactly. now, try to answer those current event questions (a few of them) forHitler....how they answered some of those for Hitler, especially when it came to the one about counter-terrorism..is beyond me.:rolleyes:

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« Reply #25 on: November 17, 2003, 01:24:57 PM »
Incidently, I put my "Looney Liberal Extreme" hat on and took the test again.  Mostly "Strongly disagree" on the questions, and "Strongly Agree" for the few that applied .  I came out -5 in both Economic Left/Right and Libertarian/Authoritarian.
« Last Edit: November 17, 2003, 01:33:20 PM by Ripsnort »

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« Reply #26 on: November 17, 2003, 01:31:27 PM »
On the short test I was right on the line between centrist and left-liberal.  I'm more liberal socially than I am economically.  (Personal 70%; Economic, 40%)

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« Reply #27 on: November 17, 2003, 01:37:10 PM »
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Economic Left/Right: -0.12
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.31

and i consider myself a republican.


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« Reply #28 on: November 17, 2003, 01:43:49 PM »
Interesting....on the short poll I scored on the border of Centrist and Left liberal with a leaning towards the authoritarian...
quite different from the other quiz.

Hooligan is right, there were a number of 'do you beat your wife every night' type of questions on the other quiz.

Still, it's fun to try.

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« Reply #29 on: November 17, 2003, 02:02:00 PM »
Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.54


btw who is Jean Chrétien ?