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My political compass.  That’s me in the green quadrant, all by my lonesome self. My numbers are: Economic scale (Left/Right): -6.38 Social scale (Libertarian/Authoritarian): -5.90 For more perspective, they also made an international version: You can figure out what your political compass is by taking the test.  It takes maybe 5 minutes. (via The Political Compass, hat tip ilovecharts)

My political compass.  That’s me in the green quadrant, all by my lonesome self.

My numbers are:

  • Economic scale (Left/Right): -6.38
  • Social scale (Libertarian/Authoritarian): -5.90

For more perspective, they also made an international version:

You can figure out what your political compass is by taking the test.  It takes maybe 5 minutes.

(via The Political Compass, hat tip ilovecharts)

Source politicalcompass.org

People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say

LiveScience:

As a result, no amount of information or facts about political candidates can override the inherent inability of many voters to accurately evaluate them. On top of that, “very smart ideas are going to be hard for people to adopt, because most people don’t have the sophistication to recognize how good an idea is,” Dunning told Life’s Little Mysteries.

Plus, it doesn’t help that people generally tend to overestimate their abilities.

(via LiveScience)

“One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we’ve got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well. It is extremely personal now, and you see in these primaries that the more people agree with each other on the issues, the more desperate they are to make the clear distinctions necessary to win, so the deeper the knife goes in.”

Bill Clinton

(via kottke)

Source kottke.org

Primary Elections Explained by CGPGrey

Source youtube.com

OkCupid published this long analysis almost a couple years ago, but I thought it was fun to read it again what with the Iowa caucus and everything. Aside from the points below, another thing they posited was that while Democrats may have more potential power because of their wider base, Republicans exercise more actual power because they are more coherent as a group. A lot of the commenters take issue with the post, but I still think it’s neat to see how they analyzed all their data.  Look at that graph, man…spiffy! OkCupid: Both socially and economically, teenagers prefer an anything-goes type situation.  But as these teenagers grow up a bit and enter the job market, they quickly develop progressive economic ideas: perhaps a bit of “levelling” seems pretty good when you’re staring up the professional ladder from the bottom rung. Meanwhile, their youthful live-and-let-live social philosophy begins to fade.  In their late 20s, they start making real money. Economic progressivism goes out the window, preferably out the window of a building with a doorman. As the adult mind turns to more material matters, social views don’t change that much.  Finally, after the mid-40s, retirement looms. Our former teenagers check their collective 401(k)s and think, you know what, let’s all get checks from the government. Social views take a hard turn for the more restrictive. At the end of the journey, economic and social views are again in agreement—only this time on the other side of the philosophical line! (via The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can Be Too Big | OkCupid)

OkCupid published this long analysis almost a couple years ago, but I thought it was fun to read it again what with the Iowa caucus and everything.

Aside from the points below, another thing they posited was that while Democrats may have more potential power because of their wider base, Republicans exercise more actual power because they are more coherent as a group.

A lot of the commenters take issue with the post, but I still think it’s neat to see how they analyzed all their data.  Look at that graph, man…spiffy!

OkCupid:

  • Both socially and economically, teenagers prefer an anything-goes type situation. 
  • But as these teenagers grow up a bit and enter the job market, they quickly develop progressive economic ideas: perhaps a bit of “levelling” seems pretty good when you’re staring up the professional ladder from the bottom rung. Meanwhile, their youthful live-and-let-live social philosophy begins to fade. 
  • In their late 20s, they start making real money. Economic progressivism goes out the window, preferably out the window of a building with a doorman. As the adult mind turns to more material matters, social views don’t change that much. 
  • Finally, after the mid-40s, retirement looms. Our former teenagers check their collective 401(k)s and think, you know what, let’s all get checks from the government. Social views take a hard turn for the more restrictive. At the end of the journey, economic and social views are again in agreement—only this time on the other side of the philosophical line!

(via The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can Be Too Big | OkCupid)

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