tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post6848876552762433598..comments2024-03-21T19:59:49.407-04:00Comments on KoopaTV: The New About PageLudwig Von Koopahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286894104423855927noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-14803371461022832802017-12-23T19:26:04.688-05:002017-12-23T19:26:04.688-05:00Suppose your goal is a better KoopaTV. Wot would y...Suppose your goal is a better KoopaTV. Wot would your advice be on a cheeky way to display our staffers' political beliefs? The point of displaying the compass is that we find it funny that the average outcome is in the centre so we can say we're Fair & Balanced. It's there to be funny.<br /><br />Nah, Obama would definitely not be at that point if he took the test.<br /><br />Kind of weird that a country has an official political test, though. How is that, uh, administered?Ludwig Von Koopahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07286894104423855927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-31568959980794474422017-12-23T19:07:27.524-05:002017-12-23T19:07:27.524-05:00I'm not advocating anything. I just say the po...I'm not advocating anything. I just say the political compass is trash.<br />Obama may be another example, adding to the dozens of examples I listed. And you might actually be wrong. If Obama actually sat down and took the test he might even BE at the point where they put him. The problem is, that he is not. Because apart from the flawed parameters (left-right,authoritarian-libertarian) the questions are too general and limited. (A problem that every political test on the net has).<br />A quick detour: My country has an official political test that matches your viewpoints with the parties of the country. I got ~50% with the Nazi party. Now does that mean I'm a half Nazi? No, it means that they and I may have answered the same in regard to "do you want this channel/road to be build?", "do you want to keep taxes as they are?" or "do you support nuclear energy?", i.e. rather pragmatical questions.<br />Likewise I scored the highest (70%+) with the leftist party, however I would absolutely not vote for them. Why? Because they are an anti-semitic/anti-zionist bunch, unable to criticise Islam, the cities governed by them are economic drains, Marx would turn in his grave seeing those goons play fast and loose with his heritage, etc. etc. etc.<br />Likewise I don't endorse tax cuts, like Trumps plans them to do, I would rather have a substantial raise in tax. However his adamant foreign stance on rogue countries like Iran or North Korea, earns him my support.<br />Now things like that can't be very accurately asked by political tests and are surely not asked by the Compass.<br /><br />So the one thing I DO actually advocate for is to not take political tests serious. Even the better one I showed. I mean it categorised me as a "social democrat" and I detest social democracy with all my being. So yeah. End of statement.Stray Dognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-82147499518512559472017-12-20T19:53:24.500-05:002017-12-20T19:53:24.500-05:00Hey, I wrote you a whole Monster Hunter article an...Hey, I wrote you a whole <i>Monster Hunter</i> article and you comment here instead?<br /><br />I'm not defending the Political Compass as a great or even good tool (we've internally complained about it), but it's still better than wot you linked.<br /><br />It was written by UK-ers, so that's the opposite of the test-creators being from the USA.<br /><br /><br />My main criticism of the Political Compass's quiz is that, if, say, Barack Hussein Obama were to sit down on a computer and take it, he would end up in the lower-left green area, but the Political Compass people say he's in the upper-right blue area. Clearly something is off on that orientation.<br /><br />Rational Wiki linked to GoToQuiz's Political Spectrum quiz: http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html<br /><br />I got:<br />"You are a far-right social libertarian.<br />Right: 8.56, Libertarian: 4.46"<br />And a -3.36 on foreign policy (non-interventionist) and 3.26 on culture (cultural conservative).<br /><br />It's roughly in line with what the Political Compass says, though the way the Political Compass words it, I'm consistently either on the Authoritarian-Libertarian line, or slightly in the Authoritarian zone.<br /><br /><br />So you're advocating for the whole staff to move to a different system? 7-axis stuff for displaying the results of 5 people at once could get messy, so...Ludwig Von Koopahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07286894104423855927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-63535229165451113252017-12-20T11:47:52.193-05:002017-12-20T11:47:52.193-05:00Also the side was down and got reset recently, whi...Also the side was down and got reset recently, which has probably reset their test numbers as well. Before they had some kind of 4D cube and a different design. That might have been the source of the "previous" mistake.Stray Dognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-70577136388635167332017-12-20T11:31:49.580-05:002017-12-20T11:31:49.580-05:00There is much space for improvement, beginning wit...There is much space for improvement, beginning with the terms itself (e.g. Anthropocentric, which is in essence an post-modern ideological term or militaristic, which has a purely negative connotation) However, even if it accompanied some children drawing book, it is still superior to the compass with its 2-axis system and sketchy usage of the left-right antagonism. Furthermore most of the compass results (from Individuals who took the test themselves) I've seen are in the green sector, I've barely seen blue and never red. You could argue that the population of people taking the compass are just so overwhelmingly in the green sector, but that doesn't really reflect reality at all.<br /><br />Another critical problem with the political compass is its questionable usage of the terms left and right and it's complete inability to accurately distinguish many political groups, most notably right-wing parties.<br /><br />Some examples:<br /><br />The right-wing New Zealand First party gets placed in the red sector, which would make them leftist-authoritarian. The British UKP and the German AfD are in the blue sector and are barely distinguishable from the respective conservative parties of the country. The French Front National candidate gets akwardly put between the blue and the red sector and almost on the peak of authoritarianism, despite her being a democratic candidate that gets called an "populist" (wikipedia: mobilizing the animosity of the "commoner" or "the people" against "privileged elites" and the "establishment"). So shouldn't she be extremely anti-authoritarian? The German AfD is the only party in Germany that seeks to establish Switzerland-like basic democracy. However they are ranked as the most authoritarian party in Germany. So is Switzerland the most authoritarian state in Europe? The Labour party in the UK has for years now been extremely neo-liberal, yet it has been classified in the green sector, while the Green Party of Germany, which barely has political differences with the Left Party is in the blue sector, in a cluster with every single German political party in Germany, except the Left Party. Hillary Clinton is according to the compass, more right-wing than Donald Trump, despite having extremely left-wing oppinions and supporters, while Donald Trump who is, despite being anti-establishment, more authoritarian than her. It's a huge mess.<br /><br />Perhaps the creators of the test were from the USA, who has a wholly different way of labelling political positions (using words like progressive, libertarian, liberal, conservative) when compared to Europe (using words like left, right, center).<br />However what they call "right" on their scale is more like neo-liberalism and real right-wings can't be accurately displayed because the tests can't display the sort of democratic authority, which right-wing parties utilize.<br /><br />Some more points of critic https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Political_Compass<br /><br />In summary the compass is so inherently and deep-to-the-core flawed, that you can't really take it seriously and should criticise it at sheer misinformation.Stray Dognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-87482748721435492872017-12-17T18:51:03.581-05:002017-12-17T18:51:03.581-05:00Ehhh I can criticise that test, too. At least the ...Ehhh I can criticise that test, too. At least the Political Compass was written by a native English speaker. It's not a good sign when the "next" button is labeled as "previous". This was made to accompany some German guy's online politics board game.<br /><br />http://politicaltest.net/en/result/2893<br /><br />With less than 3,000 tests administered here, how have the questions been scientifically tested to be representative of the ideologies? I dispute your notion that the test you linked has been developed more.Ludwig Von Koopahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07286894104423855927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-20391120330921596772017-12-17T13:02:03.957-05:002017-12-17T13:02:03.957-05:00The political compass is a very poorly designed te...The political compass is a very poorly designed test and has been criticised numerous times.<br />It also oversimplifies political positions into a 2-axis system.<br />I would recommend http://politicaltest.net/en/test instead. It has a 7-axis system:<br />cosmopolitan - nationalistic<br />communistic - capitalistic<br />anarchistic - authoritarian<br />visionary - reactionary<br />secular - fundamentalist<br />pacifist - militaristic<br />ecological - anthropocentric<br /><br />While still not living up to reality (obviously) it's most the developed (free) political test that I could find on the interwebs.<br /><br />Stray Dognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-52652980341267924342016-08-30T18:22:30.059-04:002016-08-30T18:22:30.059-04:00Jeez, you're more of an extremist than I am.
...Jeez, you're more of an extremist than I am.<br /><br />To the point where if you hypothetically joined our staff, it wouldn't be Fair & Balanced and it'd tilt extremely left!Ludwig Von Koopahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07286894104423855927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-18010143487773626462016-08-30T16:34:15.092-04:002016-08-30T16:34:15.092-04:00oO I'm sooo much farther into the green box th...oO I'm sooo much farther into the green box than anyone in your staff<br />meeeee: https://politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-9.25&soc=-8.56Disaster Areahttp://www.pokemonperfect.com/forums/index.php?members/disaster-area.13794/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-22352850887663997162014-12-31T20:38:15.362-05:002014-12-31T20:38:15.362-05:00boom
Well, it's slightly better than a sentie...boom<br /><br />Well, it's slightly better than a sentient vortex with eyes or something.Ludwig Von Koopahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07286894104423855927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-84653721874170286632014-12-31T16:58:33.985-05:002014-12-31T16:58:33.985-05:00Well, that's certainly mind-blowing!:
http://...Well, that's certainly mind-blowing!:<br /><br />http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/4/2/9/36429.jpg?v=1Hapistancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989730457882488280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-52808438196841895632014-12-31T12:40:35.218-05:002014-12-31T12:40:35.218-05:00That's correct. Full version: http://www.devia...That's correct. Full version: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Vortex-175229417Vortexicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01633309162803839712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-16460296629101217372014-12-31T08:25:38.317-05:002014-12-31T08:25:38.317-05:00According to him, it's Vortex from Transformer...According to him, it's Vortex from Transformers.Ludwig Von Koopahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07286894104423855927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803482805925136251.post-75441763656282933452014-12-31T03:44:27.608-05:002014-12-31T03:44:27.608-05:00What does Vortexica have in his avatar? I'm th...What does Vortexica have in his avatar? I'm thinking Solid Snake.Hapistancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989730457882488280noreply@blogger.com