An actually interesting political poll

[andrewducker]

Asks a bunch of questions about you (age, voting intention, perceived place on the political spectrum) and then a bunch more questions on your actual beliefs. Then compares your answers to the beliefs with others who are going to vote the same way as you/read the same paper as you, etc.


Every dot in this picture represents a cluster of people who have taken the poll.


I am, apparently, extremely internationalist and rehabilitationalist, with 96% of people being harder on criminals, immigrants and the third world than me. 12% of Green voters, 9% of Lib Dems and 6% of Labour supporters are the same as me (or more so), everyone else is a complete bastard (apparently). Oh, and people like me read The Guardian. Hardly surprising, even if I am an Independent reader.

On the other hand, when it comes to personal responsibility I'm off to the right, despite answer 'don't know' to a fair chunk of the questions they asked with an economic bent, or the war with Iraq. Apparently my wishy-washy position was still stronger than the majority of you stridently communist types. This puzzles me somewhat, because I also went for public ownership of the railways and higher taxes for rich people - but obviously not to as high an extent as the strongly Marxist average man in the street.

You can take a look at my 3 pages of results here and take the survey yourself here.

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Hey, I can see you from here!.

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

My, that is a good test, the idea of a political compass is a good one. The results they show you are quite interesting - the younger generations seem to be more right wing, the older voters to the left. I would have thought it the opposite. I'm glad to see we haven't completely swung to americanism though, there is still a greater tail to the left than the right :P.

I'll put my results on my blog to save your comments page.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I'm just near you on this, and I don't think I answered 'don't know' on anything.

[drplokta]

You are me and I claim my five pounds. My dot was close enough to yours that it would take a micrometer to distinguish them.

[andrewducker]

Don't tell this missus.

Did you answer many of yours with 'don't know'?

[drplokta]

No, very few of them.

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

I don't particularly like 'free market, pro-war'.

I came out as fairly left-wing in general, but fairly-right wing on the third page, yet I'm broadly pro-European and was against the war. I have fully expected to come out right in the middle for that reason.

As far as Scotland's concerned, my experience is that we do seem to have a larger than average proportion of people fitting into a slighty uneasy authoritarian-socialist position, as evidenced by the Scottish media and the make-up of the Scottish parliament. I'm tempted to post something a bit more specific and researched about this, but unfortunately I have to run off, so I'll stop now before I start some distinctly non-rigorous ranting about the SSP ;)

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I can't even *see* you from where I am ont he graph...

[g]

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Slightly less left of center than you but the same vertical height. Which concords with what I'd probably say about our respective political views if asked!