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Took the test again, since I did not understand some of the questions before especially those economic ones. Economic Left/Right: -5.0 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.31 Pretty inaccurate to me, I really see myself as more of a centric but leaning towards left and liberalism. But since the questions are just... *facepalms* I second machine here. The questions should have been more situational and specific than generalized thus making it more accurate with what you actually stand for. Thing is, we would have different scenarios playing in our own heads when we try to visualize these "generalized" questions. Like the example of machine, rich is a relative term. To the poor, normally, middle class people already encompasses the "rich". Then to the middle class, rich is those who are millionaires. Another great example which also fits the bill of being really generalized but this time, non-relativistic is the question about "Sex outside marriage", Do you mean pre-marital or like when you are already married and you cheated. On the former, it's already a social norm that if you disagree to this you are gonna be labelled this or that and you are to be hanged. But if made more specific, like let's say between couples who are in a long term relationship and do not want to or cannot settle down yet or those who cannot get married because of the law like same-sex couples as opposed to those who just do it casually. We'll definitely see a split of opinions here since that thing is still contestable. That's another thing that I also notice about the questionnaire, there's just these questions that you can't help but agree or disagree on since it's already a social norm and you'll just feel wrong if you say otherwise. Plus since the dawn of political correctness, you'll be labelled sexist, racist etc etc if you say otherwise. Like for example, the "Mothers may have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers", that's just outright sexist. :V Why only the mother? And, another example, "my race has better qualities than the others", saying yes would definitely make you a racist. Also this, "People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce. ", just... :V On the economic left (communism/socialism) or right (capitalism), I hate how alot of questions seems to put rich people, corporations or companies in a bad light indirectly. For example, questions like "Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.", "Governments should penalise businesses that mislead the public.", "Multinational companies are unethically exploiting the plant genetic resources of developing countries." etc. Two of the questions doesn't directly say that companies are greedy or evil but indirectly it does. Also: Whoever made the Political Compass test, please don't chart in people who never took the tests as example especially people like Gandhi and Hitler. It's like IQ tests all over again. Einstein and Da Vinci even Stephen Hawkings never took an IQ test yet they have these IQ scores floating around the internet. IMO, the test is definitely biased against Capitalists (right) and Conservatists/Authoritarians (top). You would mostly be classified as Liberal-Left since most of the questions, as I said, are againsts Capitalists and Conservatists. Yeah, haha, same here. I forgot exactly what my old result was. But, I'm sure my stance on economy isn't like that. My economic left/right became an oozing -5 , at least for this test.