Saturday, 10th of March, 2007

Find out what political party your views are closest to, and where you sit on the political spectrum.
You can take the test here. It's quite worthwhile because, a bit like the Political Compass people, they acknowledge that "left" and "right" mean different things whether you take them economically, socially or indeed in terms of what they call "traditional values".

My results are here
Not surprisingly, I identified myself as far left and a Greens supporter, and that's what I am. I'm not as far left as I might have though, but I felt that as I was answering, choosing to go with Agree rather than Strongly Agree with a number of statements where I felt I'd prefer a more tempered position than the one stated. I'm sure if I did again tomorrow I'd get a slightly different result, and it's worth noting that the test is in "beta testing", so once they tweak the questions a bit more, I may end up a bit further along to the left than I did (and I think I probably do belong even further left).

This is interesting though: the cumulative results and analysis page. As of writing this post, the distribution of people's self-perceived preferred political parties was:
34% ALP, 23% Libs, 22% Greens, 13% Dems, and the others.
However, according to the test results, the distribution should be more like:
29% Greens, 26% Dems, 12% Libs, 11% ALP, etc.
On the one hand, this may show a certain bias in the building of the test, but on the other hand I think it also shows that a lot of people are probably considerably more aligned with the Greens than they might think…

One Response to “The Oz Politics Blog's Australian politics test”

1. Megan says:
   March 12th, 2007 at 9:07 pm

   LOL… yeah, go us! We rock, us lefties… ;)

   UK is cool… have had the second mildest winter on record apparently, so have not suffered too much :) It's all so similar and yet so different… having fun checking it all out.

   Hope stuff's good with you too! Haven't had too many blogs from you recently… been keeping busy as ever? :)