Your political alignment (With a twist!)

[Purple Rats]

I support having a large military but I don't think the military should be used for foreign intervention so much as for protecting the country from foreign intervention, so that's why the score is low.

It means you support defense army, and not military.

[Saint Nicholas and the Hussars]

Here's my 9Axes

(Image)

I preferred anarcho-monarchism

Ancap is already anmon by choice of a C.E.O, for other people, it’s like if they had their own son

[Narvatus]

[Cisairse]

I'd say this looks like a regular authcom result but then you only have 52% militarist.

I support having a large military but I don't think the military should be used for foreign intervention so much as for protecting the country from foreign intervention, so that's why the score is low.

That's more or less my views on the military as well. It does separate you from orthodox Stalinists, though.

[United Muscovite Nations]

I support having a large military but I don't think the military should be used for foreign intervention so much as for protecting the country from foreign intervention, so that's why the score is low.

That's more or less my views on the military as well. It does separate you from orthodox Stalinists, though.

I should hope so, I don't like Stalin.

[Cekoviu]

Yeah, but you don't have to go full authsoc to do so

That must be why the European Social Democracies are doing so well.

Statistics nerd time! To see if you're right about whether economic and political freedom cause extra issues with the coronavirus, I've created a
coronavirus intensity measurement (CIM) which controls for population and population density (the formula to calculate it is ((number of coronavirus cases)*(area in km^2))/(population^2)), and to see if it is related to economic and political freedom, I'll be using the 2020 Index of Economic Freedom and 2019 Democracy Index as measures of those respectively. As a quick note, I've excluded Iceland from analyses because its CIM is a massive outlier at around 1400; the next highest is about 50.
First, how does CIM relate to Democracy Index?

It kind of sits at a similar low spot up until the Democracy Index reaches about 7.5, which results in a sudden exponential increase. So that means we're probably looking at an exponential curve, which means to find the strength of the exponential model, we have to log-transform the CIM. If you do that and run a linear model in R, you get:

Code: Select all

Call:
lm(formula = log(corona_score) ~ democracy_index_2019, data = mydata)

Residuals:
   Min     1Q Median     3Q    Max
-6.547 -1.462  0.360  1.602  5.198

Coefficients:
                     Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)          -3.87693    0.48571  -7.982 2.92e-13 ***
democracy_index_2019  0.57151    0.08215   6.957 9.01e-11 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.246 on 156 degrees of freedom
  (38 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.2368,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.2319
F-statistic:  48.4 on 1 and 156 DF,  p-value: 9.009e-11

So there's something to it - there's a statistically significant (p << 0.05) exponential correlation between Democracy Index and CIM. However, a large amount of the variation in CIM cannot be explained by Democracy Index, as is evidenced by the small R².
Now let's look at economic freedom.

Same kind of thing here, so let's do the same log-transform linear model.

Code: Select all

lm(formula = log(corona_score) ~ index_economic_freedom_2020,
    data = mydata)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max
-5.9421 -1.3521  0.1506  1.7299  4.5617

Coefficients:
                            Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)                  -7.7149     1.0498  -7.349 9.51e-12 ***
index_economic_freedom_2020   0.1144     0.0169   6.771 2.26e-10 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.226 on 161 degrees of freedom
  (33 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.2217,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.2168
F-statistic: 45.85 on 1 and 161 DF,  p-value: 2.264e-10

Basically the same interpretation as above.

So what does this tell us? Well, being extremely authoritarian doesn't mean you're in better shape than a moderate libertarian because you only get the sharp increase when you start becoming very free. Given the benefits of a moderately libertarian ideology compared to auth socialism, those benefits outweigh the very minor costs here. You just shouldn't be excessively liberal.

[United Muscovite Nations]

Умнииииик

[Cisairse]

That must be why the European Social Democracies are doing so well.

Statistics nerd time! To see if you're right about whether economic and political freedom cause extra issues with the coronavirus, I've created a
coronavirus intensity measurement (CIM) which controls for population and population density (the formula to calculate it is ((number of coronavirus cases)*(area in km^2))/(population^2)), and to see if it is related to economic and political freedom, I'll be using the 2020 Index of Economic Freedom and 2019 Democracy Index as measures of those respectively. As a quick note, I've excluded Iceland from analyses because its CIM is a massive outlier at around 1400; the next highest is about 50.
First, how does CIM relate to Democracy Index?

It kind of sits at a similar low spot up until the Democracy Index reaches about 7.5, which results in a sudden exponential increase. So that means we're probably looking at an exponential curve, which means to find the strength of the exponential model, we have to log-transform the CIM. If you do that and run a linear model in R, you get:

Code: Select all

Call:
lm(formula = log(corona_score) ~ democracy_index_2019, data = mydata)

Residuals:
   Min     1Q Median     3Q    Max
-6.547 -1.462  0.360  1.602  5.198

Coefficients:
                     Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)          -3.87693    0.48571  -7.982 2.92e-13 ***
democracy_index_2019  0.57151    0.08215   6.957 9.01e-11 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.246 on 156 degrees of freedom
  (38 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.2368,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.2319
F-statistic:  48.4 on 1 and 156 DF,  p-value: 9.009e-11

So there's something to it - there's a statistically significant (p << 0.05) exponential correlation between Democracy Index and CIM. However, a large amount of the variation in CIM cannot be explained by Democracy Index, as is evidenced by the small R².
Now let's look at economic freedom.

Same kind of thing here, so let's do the same log-transform linear model.

Code: Select all

lm(formula = log(corona_score) ~ index_economic_freedom_2020,
    data = mydata)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max
-5.9421 -1.3521  0.1506  1.7299  4.5617

Coefficients:
                            Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)                  -7.7149     1.0498  -7.349 9.51e-12 ***
index_economic_freedom_2020   0.1144     0.0169   6.771 2.26e-10 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.226 on 161 degrees of freedom
  (33 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.2217,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.2168
F-statistic: 45.85 on 1 and 161 DF,  p-value: 2.264e-10

Basically the same interpretation as above.

So what does this tell us? Well, being extremely authoritarian doesn't mean you're in better shape than a moderate libertarian because you only get the sharp increase when you start becoming very free. Given the benefits of a moderately libertarian ideology compared to auth socialism, those benefits outweigh the very minor costs here. You just shouldn't be excessively liberal.

I'm very happy that my thread led to people pulling out R and posting graphs

[Cekoviu]

Умнииииик

I'm gonna take that as a compliment

[Kowani]

That must be why the European Social Democracies are doing so well.

Statistics nerd time! To see if you're right about whether economic and political freedom cause extra issues with the coronavirus, I've created a
coronavirus intensity measurement (CIM) which controls for population and population density (the formula to calculate it is ((number of coronavirus cases)*(area in km^2))/(population^2)), and to see if it is related to economic and political freedom, I'll be using the 2020 Index of Economic Freedom and 2019 Democracy Index as measures of those respectively. As a quick note, I've excluded Iceland from analyses because its CIM is a massive outlier at around 1400; the next highest is about 50.
First, how does CIM relate to Democracy Index?

It kind of sits at a similar low spot up until the Democracy Index reaches about 7.5, which results in a sudden exponential increase. So that means we're probably looking at an exponential curve, which means to find the strength of the exponential model, we have to log-transform the CIM. If you do that and run a linear model in R, you get:

Code: Select all

Call:
lm(formula = log(corona_score) ~ democracy_index_2019, data = mydata)

Residuals:
   Min     1Q Median     3Q    Max
-6.547 -1.462  0.360  1.602  5.198

Coefficients:
                     Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)          -3.87693    0.48571  -7.982 2.92e-13 ***
democracy_index_2019  0.57151    0.08215   6.957 9.01e-11 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.246 on 156 degrees of freedom
  (38 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.2368,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.2319
F-statistic:  48.4 on 1 and 156 DF,  p-value: 9.009e-11

So there's something to it - there's a statistically significant (p << 0.05) exponential correlation between Democracy Index and CIM. However, a large amount of the variation in CIM cannot be explained by Democracy Index, as is evidenced by the small R².
Now let's look at economic freedom.

Same kind of thing here, so let's do the same log-transform linear model.

Code: Select all

lm(formula = log(corona_score) ~ index_economic_freedom_2020,
    data = mydata)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max
-5.9421 -1.3521  0.1506  1.7299  4.5617

Coefficients:
                            Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)                  -7.7149     1.0498  -7.349 9.51e-12 ***
index_economic_freedom_2020   0.1144     0.0169   6.771 2.26e-10 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.226 on 161 degrees of freedom
  (33 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.2217,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.2168
F-statistic: 45.85 on 1 and 161 DF,  p-value: 2.264e-10

Basically the same interpretation as above.

So what does this tell us? Well, being extremely authoritarian doesn't mean you're in better shape than a moderate libertarian because you only get the sharp increase when you start becoming very free. Given the benefits of a moderately libertarian ideology compared to auth socialism, those benefits outweigh the very minor costs here. You just shouldn't be excessively liberal.

…That’s going in the awesome quotes thread, because that was fucking amazing.

[Cekoviu]

Statistics nerd time! To see if you're right about whether economic and political freedom cause extra issues with the coronavirus, I've created a
coronavirus intensity measurement (CIM) which controls for population and population density (the formula to calculate it is ((number of coronavirus cases)*(area in km^2))/(population^2)), and to see if it is related to economic and political freedom, I'll be using the 2020 Index of Economic Freedom and 2019 Democracy Index as measures of those respectively. As a quick note, I've excluded Iceland from analyses because its CIM is a massive outlier at around 1400; the next highest is about 50.
First, how does CIM relate to Democracy Index?

It kind of sits at a similar low spot up until the Democracy Index reaches about 7.5, which results in a sudden exponential increase. So that means we're probably looking at an exponential curve, which means to find the strength of the exponential model, we have to log-transform the CIM. If you do that and run a linear model in R, you get:

Code: Select all

Call:
lm(formula = log(corona_score) ~ democracy_index_2019, data = mydata)

Residuals:
   Min     1Q Median     3Q    Max
-6.547 -1.462  0.360  1.602  5.198

Coefficients:
                     Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)          -3.87693    0.48571  -7.982 2.92e-13 ***
democracy_index_2019  0.57151    0.08215   6.957 9.01e-11 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.246 on 156 degrees of freedom
  (38 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.2368,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.2319
F-statistic:  48.4 on 1 and 156 DF,  p-value: 9.009e-11

So there's something to it - there's a statistically significant (p << 0.05) exponential correlation between Democracy Index and CIM. However, a large amount of the variation in CIM cannot be explained by Democracy Index, as is evidenced by the small R².
Now let's look at economic freedom.

Same kind of thing here, so let's do the same log-transform linear model.

Code: Select all

lm(formula = log(corona_score) ~ index_economic_freedom_2020,
    data = mydata)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max
-5.9421 -1.3521  0.1506  1.7299  4.5617

Coefficients:
                            Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
(Intercept)                  -7.7149     1.0498  -7.349 9.51e-12 ***
index_economic_freedom_2020   0.1144     0.0169   6.771 2.26e-10 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.226 on 161 degrees of freedom
  (33 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.2217,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.2168
F-statistic: 45.85 on 1 and 161 DF,  p-value: 2.264e-10

Basically the same interpretation as above.

So what does this tell us? Well, being extremely authoritarian doesn't mean you're in better shape than a moderate libertarian because you only get the sharp increase when you start becoming very free. Given the benefits of a moderately libertarian ideology compared to auth socialism, those benefits outweigh the very minor costs here. You just shouldn't be excessively liberal.

…That’s going in the awesome quotes thread, because that was fucking amazing.

Much obliged!

[The Frozen Forest]

Forgot, but here's my 9Axis.

[New Buenos Ayres]

The questions are way too biased and centered entirely in america, there were too many that should have a context in order to be understood, but anyway im happy with my results

[Cisairse]

The questions are way too biased and centered entirely in america, there were too many that should have a context in order to be understood, but anyway im happy with my results

(Image)

Which questions do you feel were biased towards America?

One of my friends took it and told me that a fair number of the questions didn't make sense to American politics.

[Greater Miami Shores]

I voted for the 6th option on the Poll - Capitalist. While I say I am a proud Conservative Republican Nationalist with a slight economic Libertarian streak, I prefer to think issue by issue.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

I voted for the 6th option on the Poll - Capitalist. While I say I am a proud Conservative Republican Nationalist with a slight economic Libertarian streak, I prefer to think issue by issue.

Even if you don't post your results you should do the quiz. You might be surprised (eg more Libertarian than you think you are)

[Pythaga]

I got centrist, slightly leaning towards markets, nation, authority, and progress in the four sub-categories. This test didn’t show me anything new, my results here were pretty much identical to my political compass results.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

It said I was a national socialist.I thought I was a communist. So sad.I feel like I betrayed the revolution.
Looks like I'm going to call myself a мелкая буржуазия.

https://postimg.cc/Kkr1Fbws

It says your a state socialist so a commie

~ Woww I don't know the difference between these two words, or between the state socialist and the national Socialist.Now I'm more confused

[Pythaga]

It says your a state socialist so a commie

~ Woww I don't know the difference between these two words, or between the state socialist and the national Socialist.Now I'm more confused

National socialism is communism with a lot of nationalism thrown in. Instead of everyone is equal (communism), it’s everyone belonging to our group is equal (national socialism).

State socialism is what most people think of as communism, a socialist system where the state owns and controls all of the industry.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

~ Woww I don't know the difference between these two words, or between the state socialist and the national Socialist.Now I'm more confused

National socialism is communism with a lot of nationalism thrown in. Instead of everyone is equal (communism), it’s everyone belonging to our group is equal (national socialism).

State socialism is what most people think of as communism, a socialist system where the state owns and controls all of the industry.

I don't believe you. They are far from communism.No one knows communism better than me.

The sources of national socialism are German words Nationalsozialismus.The Nazis.
It also says that national socialism comes from German words,Nationaler Sozialismus.
It's not communism or Nazism, it's one kind of social reformism

[Pythaga]

Yes, national socialism is nazism.

However, your test result said state socialism.

From Wikipedia:

State socialism is a political and economic ideology within socialism advocating state ownership of the means of production, either as a temporary measure in the transition from capitalism to socialism or as characteristic of socialism itself.

Yes, this is not as extreme as fully on communism, but it’s about as close as you can get without being full communist, and quite different from national socialism.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Yes, national socialism is nazism.

However, your test result said state socialism.

From Wikipedia:

State socialism is a political and economic ideology within socialism advocating state ownership of the means of production, either as a temporary measure in the transition from capitalism to socialism or as characteristic of socialism itself.

Yes, this is not as extreme as fully on communism, but it’s about as close as you can get without being full communist, and quite different from national socialism.

Emmmm This may sound good.After all, communism is like a utopia. It's just a fantasy

[Roma Maior]

I got Democratic Socialist. The quiz tells me I’m economically socialist, diplomatically balanced, moderate though more favourable to authority on the Civil Axis and socially progressive. I prefer to see myself as a syncretic individual, however, as I like to take things case by case and issue by issue.

[Plasir Grand]

Makes sense, social democracy ftw



8 Values

Economic Axis: Centrist

Equality: 57.1%
Market: 42.9%

Diplomatic Axis: Peaceful

Nation: 33.9%
World: 66.1%

Civil Axis: Liberal

Liberty: 67.9%
Authority: 32.1%

Societal Axis: Very Progressive
Tradition: 10.3%
Progress: 89.7%


Closest Match: Social Democracy


9 AXES

Neutral, Lean Federalist (Federal vs Unitary)

Federal: 52%
Unitary: 48%

Democratic (Democracy vs Authority)

Democracy: 78%
Authority: 22%

Globalist (Globalism vs Isolationism)

Globalism: 71%
Isolationism: 29%

Neutral, Lean Militarist (Militarism vs Pacifism)

Military: 54%
Pacifism: 46%

Moderate Freedom (Security vs Freedom)

Security: 33%
Freedom: 67%

Neutral, Fiscally Moderate (Equality vs. Market)

Equality: 50%
Market: 50%

Secular (Secular vs Religious)

Secular: 71%
Religious: 29%

Fanatic Progressive (Progress vs Tradition)

Progress: 90%
Tradition: 10%

Multiculturalist (Assimilationist vs Multiculturalist)

Assimilationist: 27%
Multiculturalist:73%

[Cisairse]

I find the poll results very interesting.