two dimensions

Posted on Sunday, 2003 November 09 by Anton

Tim Lambert (Deltoid) is compiling a table of bloggers’ scores in a Political Compass quiz. I scored in the middle of the Right Libertarian quadrant, close to Will Wilkinson (The Fly Bottle). I suspect I’d be further left if some of the questions were worded differently.

Later: I wonder whether the creators of the Compass website are doing any factor analysis on the responses (analogous to that which produced the Animation of Congress) to check the validity of their scoring rules. (I also wish I had a clue about how factor analysis is done.)

Update!

2006: I didn’t record my exact score back then; so I did the quiz again just now and scored (+4.63, -5.85).

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4 Responses to two dimensions

  1. Anton says:
    Sunday, 2009 February 15 at 18:10

    I have since acquired a clue about how factor analysis is done, from an unexpected source. It pays to have random interests.

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  2. LiveTrends says:
    Sunday, 2016 October 23 at 21:36

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  3. Anton says:
    Sunday, 2016 October 23 at 23:55

    There’s weird stuff on that page:

    Hampshire in the United States of America, usually known as the New Hampshire, is a county in the state of Massachusetts. As its name says, the country took its name after the county located in England, United Kingdom that is the Hampshire county. The county was founded in the year 1662. Its largest town is Amherst. It has no county government but there is a council named the Hampshire Council of Governments which runs the county successfully. It’s population, according to 2015 census, is 158,080. Still, the New Hampshire country plays an important role in the country’s governance, politics and elections.

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  4. Anton says:
    Wednesday, 2020 December 30 at 15:54

    My score today is Right 3.13, Libertarian 6.97.

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