This is how it described me, and I think it's a fair assessment:
Liberal-Conservative
You scored 21 Equality, 78 Liberty, and 64 Stability!
Your commitment to both liberty and stability puts you in the hazy area that exists between the Liberal and the Conservative. You value liberty particularly in economic life and embrace private enterprise. You also recognise the value of traditional culture and institutions. Occasionally your economic and cultural positions may clash but in general you will find practical ways to reconcile them.
Anyone else care to bare their soul in the comments section?
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Thanks for posting the link here Ari, Also thanks for the comments Jeremy. I do understand what you are saying regarding the predictability of the result. One could argue that my result descriptions are just re-worded rearrangements of the relevent question-statements. However it is worth remembering that you are a politically literate person. I have had lots of non-political friends find the test very informative and expose them to new concepts.
Thanks for the link to the LEO Test - I suppose it is impossible to think of an original concept in a world of 4.5 billion minds. LEO is impressive both in content and intent. I do find that its use of terminology is overly specific to a US context but then that is its purpose. Also I prefer the word 'stability' to 'order' - 'order' just makes me think of goosestepping jackboots. On the other hand 'LEO' is a better acronym then 'LES'...
Daniel
P. S. I have an apology to make to you Jeremy - I have adjusted the scoring on the test a few days back. Under the new parametres you would be social-liberal.
That is fascinating. I have only skimmed the surface of the LEO site (also making the author aware of my own - essentially recreational - test) coz it is pretty dense and academic. But I agree words can become associated with a particular ideology.
I was looking just today at some of the argument pages on Wikipedia over particular article edits and one person was using phrases like 'economic imperialism' and 'wage slavery' so I instantly knew the writer was Marxian.
On the other hand if you know the political character of particular words you can then use them in unusual and disarming ways. Several months ago - during the terrorist attack of London - I noticed some political figures (including Richard Alston as our ambassador to the UK) saying that "we must resist these terrorists". 'Resist' is a much more interesting term than 'fight'. It instantly casts the resisters as innocent and those they are resisting as oppressors, and I think is more likely to resonate with audiences across the political spectrum, than 'fight'...
I have to admit I think test like this are quite some fun, though I certainly doubt their validity. But, hey, life's too short to take it serious, and the category I would put myself in wasn't part of the test anyway.
Here's the result:
Social-Liberal
You scored 71 Equality, 78 Liberty, and 21 Stability!
Your commitment to both liberty and equality puts you in the hazy area that exists between the Liberal and the Socialist. You value liberty particularly in cultural and personal life. You also value government intervention to promote equity in economic life while still supporting private enterprise. For you liberty and equality are two parts of the same condition. Everyone has to be free to pursue their own way-of-life but in order for that to happen everyone must start with a similar basic standard of living.
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