I’m sorry but there’s no way it represents every ideology, the questions can be incredibly limiting (some people may not even have opinions yet on the questions given like I did when I first took it in 9th grade or around that time), and also a scale shouldn’t be the go-to basis of representation for every ideology. Also this isn’t directed at the person who wrote the ask this is about the test itself I don’t want to attack anyone
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Sorry lol, and absolutely no shade. I can say I’m obviously generally somewhere in the bottom left quadrant (as is pretty much everyone I follow on here). But I’d like to make the point that this compass does a couple of unfortunate things:
1. Flattens what may be someone’s wide-ranging spectrum of principles/values. This is an issue with these kinds of things when surveying large populations to get an average, but in this case it’s also sticky when an individual has values that don’t comfortably conform to the binaries presented.
2. Accepts and presents the deeply-ingrained false binaries of left v. right and libertarian v. authoritarian as political fact.
3. Encourages, overtly or otherwise, people to define their political views oppositonally. Maybe I’ll get into this in a big rec, but this is the core problem with all of our systems!
Variations of this can be helpful though – ones that are designed to help you figure out how you align with candidates/parties in a specific election, for example. This works a bit better in countries with multi-party systems though, so uh…
Anyway, please carry on as you were!
Jul 31, 2024
I would disagree with this i'm very much not moderate haha. the scope of the questions on this one is too narrow, I feel like my political compass one is a better representation. both are reductive by nature tho.
Sep 19, 2024
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gave me intense discomfort in my tummy hahaha. I do not like yes/no statements. like wtf does “I enjoy taking risks” mean?! I need context! For lots of them I was either like “I don’t want to thumbs up or down any of them”. I am someone who NEEDS a ”neither agree nor disagree” option. this in itself probably tells you all you need to know. I am the master of nuance lmao
Apr 7, 2024
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There’s been multiple reports of AI taking up lots of energy to generate things and we don’t need more energy being wasted to produce a soulless, computer generated piece of AI art (Idk how others feel about AI art but whenever I look at it I feel sick and my heart sinks because it just feels so empty) so that’s one thing. Another issue is all these horrific deepfake scandals, to an incident that happened to at least 1 girl at the high school I went to (I’m not gonna say their names or anything because they’ve already been through so much shit) to South Korea’s recent crackdown on deepfake p0rn which revealed just how rampant it was throughout the country (and I just know shit like this is happening worldwide it’s not just their country). There’s also social media manipulation, biases in AI (only 100/7,000 of this world’s languages being used in chatbot training which only contributes further to languages being endangered), the very real threat of AI to be used to create more inequality, etc. While it looks like generative AI is flopping in some areas now (thank god) I’m still very concerned about it
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