Barry Irwin
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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 results are very similar to what they were in 2004, and less libertarian and economically right wing than they were in 2006. Me and Nelson Mandela are still home boys though.
Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13
Update: Updating my score has lead to most of #clug and # on furion.org (IRC) updating theirs and informing Spinach (a KNAB). cocooncrash wrote an awesome little python script to chart these automagically, the results of which can be seen here. It seems most South Africans are in the bottom left quadrant, and not a single one of us above the authoritarian line; possibly an interesting insight into geekdom.
My previous scores were:
2006
Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64
2004
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.08
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Political Compass 2008
Dominic White recently blogged about his current political leanings and how they had changed since 2004. What I found most interesting was that he links to a chart showing the leanings of #clug which is somewhat representative of the South African geek...