{"id":1162,"date":"2003-11-09T01:06:28","date_gmt":"2003-11-09T09:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2006-11-09T20:24:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T04:24:47","slug":"two-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"two dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au\/~lambert\/cgi-bin\/blog\/surveys\/compass.html>Tim Lambert (Deltoid)<\/a> is compiling a table of bloggers&#8217; scores in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalcompass.org\/\">Political Compass<\/a> quiz.  I scored in the middle of the Right Libertarian quadrant, close to <a href=http:\/\/willwilkinson.net\/flybottle>Will Wilkinson (The Fly Bottle)<\/a>.  I suspect I&#8217;d be further left if some of the questions were worded differently.<\/p>\n<p><i>Later:<\/i> I wonder whether the creators of the Compass website are doing any factor analysis on the responses (analogous to that which produced the <a href=http:\/\/voteview.uh.edu\/c46105.htm>Animation of Congress<\/a>) to check the validity of their scoring rules.  (I also wish I had a clue about how factor analysis is done.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\".\/?p=1447\">Update!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2006:<\/strong> I didn&#8217;t record my exact score back then; so I did the quiz again just now and scored (+4.63, -5.85).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Lambert (Deltoid) is compiling a table of bloggers&#8217; 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&#8217;d be further left if some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1162\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogdom","category-mememe","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}