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CLUG Political Compass graph

Submitted by mgorven on Mon, 2008/09/15 - 15:45

A couple people on #clug were updating their Political Compass scores, which prompted me to jump on the bandwagon and do the test. I came out with the following scores.

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21

I then thought that it would be interesting to compare everyone's scores on a graph, so I wrote a Python script to get the scores from Spinach and a Gnuplot script to plot them.

CLUG Political Compass

To add yourself to the graph, tell Spinach your score in the following format. The graph is regenerated every hour.

cocooncrash.political_compass is -4.38 / -2.21 (2008/09/14)

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Political Compass 2008

from .tHE pRODUCT on Tue, 2008/09/16 - 08:31

I was interested to see if my political leanings (as described by the Political Compass test) had shifted since having left University, gotten a job, started paying taxes, converted to Catholicism and having grown older.It is interesting to note that my
#1Submitted by jonathan carter » Blog Archive » Politic (not verified) on Sun, 2008/09/28 - 21:12.

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[...] and then gives you co-ordinates on where you stand politically. Michael Gorven put together a Python script that takes the results from Spinach (our channel bot) and plots it on a graph using [...]
#2Submitted by Political Compass | Tumbleweed Rants (not verified) on Wed, 2008/09/24 - 22:56.

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[...] I’m not an Internet-meme person, but #clug has been rather into the Political Compass Tests recently (Thanks to Michael Gorven’s graphing of our scores). [...]
#3Submitted by jerith (not verified) on Tue, 2008/09/16 - 16:56.

It would be cool if the graph

It would be cool if the graph could track people over time. I have made a start at getting the Python code to output suitable data, but none of the machines I have handy have a new enough gnuplot in the repo to play with the graph generation stuff. Perhaps I'll play some more later on.