{"id":1447,"date":"2004-10-10T23:56:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T07:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2004-10-19T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T01:39:08","slug":"two-dimensions-of-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"two dimensions of opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\".\/?p=1162\">In November<\/a> I linked to a &#8220;Political Compass&#8221; and mentioned some improvements I&#8217;d like to see.  <a href=\"http:\/\/ex-parrot.com\/~chris\/\">Chris Lightfoot<\/a> apparently had already made them.  Rather than assigning preconceived interpretations to the questions, Lightfoot waited until a large number of people had done his quiz, and then did a factor analysis to define the axes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politics.beasts.org\/\">Lightfoot&#8217;s quiz<\/a> was cited by Tim Lambert (Deltoid), who invites you to <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au\/~lambert\/cgi-bin\/blog\/surveys\/polsurvey.html\">add your name to a chart<\/a>.  (I hope you will; only a few names on it are familiar to me.)<\/p>\n<p>My score is {-1.37, +6.29}, near the top center of Lambert&#8217;s chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November I linked to a &#8220;Political Compass&#8221; and mentioned some improvements I&#8217;d like to see. Chris Lightfoot apparently had already made them. Rather than assigning preconceived interpretations to the questions, Lightfoot waited until a large number of people had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1447\">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":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}