Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:55 pm
Yes I was initially caught out by Johnson too.
This test has been knocking around the Internet for at least 10 years though IIRC and Boris just ain't that big a political figure.
But LBJ was a long way from the extreme right.
Mistake maybe?
Maybe. It's certainly not Andrew Johnson. Maybe LBJ's foreign policies shoved him that way, his domestic policies shouldn't have.
Could be Harry Gordon Johnson who was a Canadian economist and gave us the term 'Johnsonian economics'. He was big on nationalist and interventionist policies?
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 10:21 pm...
I saw a very interesting program about Nazi Germany this week, and apart from the racism, the Nazis were very left wing Socialists...
You sound surprised that the National Socialist Party was socialist. The clue's in the name FFS.
Although, to be fair, we have a socialist party in this country that calls itself Conservative so...
I have significant doubts about the whole issue. IMO (and I do have some experience of psychometric tests) this one is quick and dirty, with lots of face validity, but I doubt it has much construct validity. That means it looks good, but may well be utterly useless.
When I take one of these political compass test I tend to land about half way into the libertarian half, but almost dead centre on the left/right axis. Apparently I'm extremely moderate and a bit libertarian.
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