Was there any doubt?

It's interesting how every time I take this test I keep shifting between left and right. I may be part of that elusive 'centre' we keep hearing so much about.

I don't like these tests as they have parochial issues, overgeneralizations, and lack of segregation between one's social preferences and what one believes should be imposed by law.

Nevertheless I came one little diagonal to the upper left than the L. Making me a marginally more centrist right-libertarian. But the questions are significant flaws. And how can they know Robert Mugabe's views of abstract art?

Economic Left/Right: 2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13

I don't particularly like the questions as I can almost absolutely see the underlying assumptions, and it makes it easy for me to game them if I wanted.

And I agree with MH, the difference between social preferences and what one wishes to see imposed by law or government (or otherwise) on others is not differentiated.

I tried myself to answer in understanding that the underlying idea presumes imposition by law.

Nevertheless, a few moments before once again pissing off for another bunch of abstract hotel rooms.

I got 0.12 on the economic left/right scale, and -5.49 on the social scale. But a lot of those questions were terrible. Plus they had no way to vote for a neutral answer, which has got to do bad things to the scoring system.

Economic Left/Right: 6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.15

ditto, comments above.

Another problem is that I never know whether to answer these things as I would in Sweden, or as I would in the USA. Lower taxes for high-income people in Sweden, yes please. In the US, no, and perhaps higher.

Anyway, I don't remember the numbers, but with the US perspective, I tend to end up very far down, and a tiny bit to the right of the economics bar, or sometimes right on it. I suppose just below Dubaiwalla.

This poll/quiz is the original, I think. It is also America-centric, which works for me, but it does have an advantage of allowing a neutral answer and taking only a few seconds. It is obviously written by a libertarian to goose the results and reflect that bias. (I come out practically at the tippy top).

Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.77

I'm the freakin' Dalai Lama.

--MSK*

Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

Oh dear, I'm a Leftist twit now.

Funny, I'd have thought you were much more to the right on the economics. I suppose you've been contaminated with a pinch of good old Moroccan statism...

The test is indeed US-centric - since the US is so much to the right compared with much of the rest of the world, or at least Europe and its immediate neighborhood, almost all Moroccan bloggers who did the test were placed pretty much down in the Left/Libertarian corner.

As alle says, the context tends to distort the outcome, but that's hardly the conceptor's fault.

Btw, what about a Mena test? Find out whether you're a Phalangist, Likudnik, Hizbollahi, Sadrist, ikhwani, takfiri or Western imperialism stooge...

Btw, another funny quiz: http://www.blog.ma/obiterdicta/index.php?action=article&id_article=15467 or http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx .

Or -- Which Arab Dictator Are You?

There was a test on "which lebanese sect are you?" I whipped together based on a (somebody or other) survey a while ago - I think the html is still on the shared server somewhere.

Couldn't help myself, now I made another one:
Which Arab Country Are You?

How did Eritrea get to be Arab? Is Esias Affeworki out seeking Saudi handouts again?

Uh ... good question, interesting brain-slip. That should be the Comoros Islands. Not so very Arab either, but at least an Arab League member.

Ah, well I become rather more violently liberal in the face of Vampire States that piss & moan about social blah blah but in a fundamentally illiberal enviro simply mask rentier interests. The mistake you Moroccans make is to believe in the State when it has neither the capacity, means nor governance traditions to genuinely ensure such missions.

You waste resources on Potemkin facades, contemtible self delusion that provides little real benefit.

L: "The mistake you Moroccans make is to believe in the State when it has neither the capacity, means nor governance traditions to genuinely ensure such missions" - well, I certainly do not trust in the Moroccan business sector, probably even less prepared than the state to undertake such missions. I am not comparing the Moroccan state with top-flight Swedish or Finnish companies with a long tradition of transparency, environment-awareness, gender-sensitivity, sense of social responsability and so on, but with the local business sector.

Ah mate you miss the point. It is not up to the corporate sectort o undertake such things at; corporate social responsibility functions as practiced in Scandinavia is luxury. Your Statist bias shows. The proper role of the private sector is to generate growth and wealth that will in the long run create the resources to support such luxuries. Trying to impose This has costs that the Maghrebine economies can not support, whatever the pious posturing of activists.