8 Values Political Test

[Republic of the Cristo]

I got right wing populist

[Godular]

https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=72.4&d=70.5&g=67.8&s=84.2

Libertarian Socialist... seems like an oxymoron to me, but sure.

[The Burke Islands]

Lost the link, but I got Libertarian, no surprise there.

[Jelmatt]

https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=72.4&d=70.5&g=67.8&s=84.2

Libertarian Socialist... seems like an oxymoron to me, but sure.

tfw the first person to describe himself as politically libertarian was a socialist but people still call libertarian socialism an oxymoron

[South Pacific Republic]

I am a centrist. I'm not really surprised.
https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=53.8&d=55.1&g=40.9&s=52.8

[Socialist Tera]

I got Democratic socialist which is surprising. I should be further left, oh well time to self criticise.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

[Risottia]

Since it seems the 8 Values Political Test is rapidly superseding the Political Compass on social media, I thought it would be fun to make a thread devoted to taking the test and posting our results here.

Basically, the test is rather similar to the Political Compass (even "borrowing" a number of questions from it), but ranks your stance on eight opposing values to match you to a political ideology, rather than just plotting you on a quadrant.

So you mean that it's just a copy of the Political Compass but its results are plotted in four dimensions instead of two.

My, such novelties are so thrilling.

[Lioniel]

https://8values.github.io/results.html? ... 1.1&s=78.0

Social Liberalism....

[Tzion and Jerusalem]

https://8values.github.io/results.html? ... 0.2&s=34.5

[Tzion and Jerusalem]

I got right wing populist

Same, but I don't self-identify as that
I would say I'm a centre-right populist

[Hansdeltania]

I am:
Economically: Communist (not surprised)
Diplomatically: Balanced, favoring peace more than power (I'm surprised)
Civilly: Moderate, favoring liberty more than authority
Socially: Very progressive (85.8% in favor of progress)

My results

[Qasheer]

https://8values.github.io/results.html? ... 7.5&s=58.3

I donnu what is populism tho

[Kilobugya]

Here is mine:

https://8values.github.io/results.html? ... 1.1&s=75.2

And here is mine, very similar : https://8values.github.io/results.html? ... 1.6&s=86.5

[Neu Leonstein]

At this stage, any political test that doesn't include a clear 'nationalist vs internationalist' axis kinda misses the point, no?

[Dumb Ideologies]

https://8values.github.io/results.html? ... 5.8&s=58.1

Centrist, and the "neutral" label for everything.

I don't agree that I have a heart full of neutrality or whatever - the test seems a bit flawed for having such high thresholds before giving a meaningful result. There are intermediary points between the centre and the extremes which also have labels.

Not one of my favourite tests.

[Tzion and Jerusalem]

https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=67.3&d=55.1&g=37.5&s=58.3

I donnu what is populism tho

When politicians gather a following like Trump or the Euroskeptics often in demand for radical change based of non-centrist views

[Pilarcraft]

https://8values.github.io/results.html? ... 3.0&s=97.7
Well, I got Libertarian Socialist.
hmm. sounds right.

[World Anarchic Union]

https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=94.9&d=74.4&g=84.7&s=90.3
Libertarian communist seems about right.

[Aision]

Maybe somewhat more capitalistic, but, all in all, sounds about right.

[Tzion and Jerusalem]

They've changed one of the labels

[Ariddia]

I'm a democratic socialist, it appears. Although some questions were so vaguely phrased that I had to click "unsure" due to the lack of nuance.

Socialist: 79.3%
Peaceful: 61.7%
Civil liberty: 56.9%
Progressive: 73.6%

[Jankau-Helmutsberg]

It doesn't fit. It's too big. Moderate conservatism.

[Vistora]

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Holistically, it's definitely accurate in its diagnosis of me as a classical liberal, but there are a few notable points of criticism I have for it.

Firstly, it lacks a Nationalism/Nativism - Globalism/Cosmopolitanism spectrum, something I believe to be virtually indispensable to any political test relevant to modern times (you can imagine my frustration at having found so few who acknowledge this crucial dimension). As it stands, that axis appears to be lumped in with Might - Peace, which I believe to be a mistake, leading also into my second criticism.

The conflation of nationalism and militarism is common and understandably correlated, but also severely limiting. I happen to be both a radical globalist and extremely in favor of multilateral, usually humanitarian interventionism. For me, the two go hand-in-hand, which cannot really be expressed in this test, regrettably. The same is true for nationalist isolationists, of which I believe there are many, who are likewise disregarded by such a combining of metrics.

I would also prefer to have democracy separated from civil liberties, but they are slightly more difficult to extricate.

Other than that, I don't have any major complaints, and I like how it expands greatly upon the admittedly overrated Political Compass.

However, I do vaguely recall viewing a diagram showing somebody's results for a test with at up to nine axes, or at least no fewer than seven. I don't suppose anyone here is acquainted with some such test?

I agree with you on the nationalism<->cosmopolitanism axis. That is empirically one of the most important dimensions in politics, especially British politics (and maybe the rest of Europe, idk). Though with America, maybe less so, although the rise of Donald Trump has brought this dimension more into light.

As for splitting the liberty<->authority axis into libertarian<->statist and democratic<->autocratic axes, I don't think that's really necessary. They are highly correlated, and although there may certainly be liberal autocrats and restrictive democrats, support for democracy and support for civil liberties are very hard to separate. Most people who support one support the other. Exceptions are just that: exceptions.

The test I think you're thinking of is this one: http://politicaltest.net/en/, although it's currently not working.

Yeah, you make a good point. And I have indeed tried that test before, only to be disappointed by it being broken...

Perhaps I'll send my advice over to them.

[Nouveau Yathrib]

https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=58.5&d=63.3&g=63.1&s=63.2

Liberalism overall




Took the test a second time, got Social Liberalism instead.

https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=62.8&d=56.9&g=58.5&s=67.7