The Political Compass
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The Political Compass is a website from Great Britain, that asks people questions to figure out if they’re Left-Authoritarian, Right-Authoritarian, Left-Libertarian or Right-Libertarian. The website asks a lot of questions, ranging from how the user would run the economy to what should be socially acceptable. After all the questions are answered, the website determines where the user would land on the political compass.
Definitions
[change | change source]The Political Compass uses 2 axes, Economic and Social, the economic axes shows if you support a free market or socialist economy and the governments intervention, the social axes shows if you support a large and powerful government or a small to minimal government.
The Left-Authoritarian quadrant advocates for a powerful government and a socialist leaning economy, Right-Authoritarian quadrant advocates for a powerful government but a free-market leaning government, Left-Libertarian advocates for a small government and socialist leaning economy and Right-Libertarian advocates for a small government but a free-market economy.
When answering questions you must select Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree or Strongly Agree, this has received criticism by forcing users to select a side
Controversy
[change | change source]The Political Compass has been criticized by a lot of political commentators. Ben Shapiro, Destiny and Steven Crowder have all said that it’s a bad test. The controversy is because of the site's bias towards the Left, with the site's news heavily criticising conservative politicians in many different world elections while praising left-wing to far-left politicians. This is an issue because the bias of the owner may alter how the test phrases certain questions and how the website interprets answers shifting answers towards the left than it should be.
