Politics Test redux - 4 comments

Thought it might be interesting to gather together the results from that Politics Test everyone seems to have been doing. I was mainly prompted to do this because people's results seemed so similar.

Bear in mind, I'm not taking this even remotely seriously: it's a flawed test, and this is hardly a statistical survey, just playing with numbers. Excuse the colouring of the chart, which has no political significance, but shows how bad Excel's other colour schemes are.



Firstly, the two outliers: well, they're not of our ilk. The one on the left is Stephen Pollard, the one on the right, the Lib Dem: Forceful and Moderate. They're there because I found the test at their blogs, and their results certainly demonstrate a clear divide.

Clearly we're all social liberals, but there seems to be a point beyond which we don't go: perhaps that's "the need for responsibility". Most liberal here is Andrew West (81%), with Paul Burgin back on 61%.

There's a greater range on economic issues, as we'd probably expect. None of us are even remotely close to Pollard or the Lib Dem, but I come highest up this list with 33%, which is enough to cost me the "Socialist" tag and make me a "Democrat" (shudder). Other Andrew, and Tom, are close-ish. Jo scores 6%, which should have a few currency traders quaking in their brogues and fingering their necks to check their heads are still attached, and there are a few on 13%.

Well I thought it was interesting diverting. I'll keep an eye out for other people doing the test to see where they fit into our tight little bunch.