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IPIP-NEO/Political Compass Meme

Funky Dung was kind enough to send me more busy work, this time in the form of a political/personality meme that’s been making the rounds. I won’t make too much of it, except that, like Funky, I’ve also incorporated the Chris Lightfoot quiz results into my answers. If you should choose to take part, feel free to do the same. And if you are interested in participating, just follow the instructions below. I’d be interested to know how people score on this.

NOTE: Read Funky’s post for a good explanation why you might not want to include the sub-results from the IPIP-NEO survey. I thought the reasons were compelling enough that I limited my public posting to the major headings. If you don’t blog, (or your blog is allergic to memes), you can leave the basic results in the comments of this entry.

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Overview: This post is a community experiment with two broad purposes. The first is to create publicly accessible data about bloggers’ personalities, which may have sociological value in addition to being just plain fun. The second is to track the propagation of this meme through blogspace. Full details and explanation can be found on the original posting:

Instructions (to join in the experiment):

1) Take the IPIP-NEO personality test and the Political Compass quiz, if you have not done so already.

2) Copy to the clipboard that section of this post that is between the horizontal rules, and paste it into your blog editor. (Blogger users may wish to use ‘compose’ mode to preserve formatting and hyperlinks. Otherwise, be sure to add hyperlinks as necessary.)

3) Replace the answers in the “survey” section below with your own.

4) Add your blog information to the “track list”, in the form: “Linked title – URL - optional GUID”.

5) Any additional comments should go outside of the double lines, including the (optional) nomination of bloggers you wish to pass this experimental meme on to.

6) Post it to your blog!

7) Trackback to the post you found this on (if you know how).

Survey:

Age: 33
Gender: Male
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Religion: Christian (Protestant)
Occupation: logistics/transportation
Began blogging: (dd/mm/yy): 18/11/03

Political Compass results
Left/Right: -3.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.31

Chris Lightfoot Political Survey results

Left/Right: -1.1442
Idealism/Pragmatism: -0.6367

IPIP-NEO results

EXTRAVERSION: 57
AGREEABLENESS: 75
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: 24
NEUROTICISM: 62
OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE: 70

Track List:
1. Philosophy, et cetera – pixnaps.blogspot.com – pixnaps97a2
2. Parableman – parablemania.ektopos.com – p8r8bl9m8n18
3. Rebecca Writes – everydaymusings.blogspot.com
4. Ales Rarus – alesrarus.funkydung.com – ales2112avis
5. the smedley log – thesmedleylog.com – tsl181103

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Here’s my results now. I’ll blog about them later, when i can actuall look thing about them.

EXTRAVERSION: 42
AGREEABLENESS: 19
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: 0 (I’m not sure why!!)
Breakdown:
Self-Efficacy…………33
Orderliness…………..0
Dutifulness…………..1 *
Achievement-Striving…..8 ********
Self-Discipline……….11 ***********
Cautiousness………….13 *************
NEUROTICISM: 59
OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE: 61

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64

Lightfoot

AxisPosition
1 left/right -1.4452 (-0.0870)
2 pragmatism -1.0707 (-0.0644)

I found it interesting that they have me sitting about rigt where Tony Blair is.

Personally, I never really liked this surveys. I think they really judge you based on how you answer questions. I think people who tend to be more moderate, and think in mpore shadwes or grays, then black and white, get messed up results. You ask me a question like “Is such and such always wrong” and I more than likely will answer no, except in extreme cases, like abuse of children. Plus, it tends to evaluate you feelings with little look at how you let those feeling affect your emotions. It says that my anger levls are high, and I guess that is based on the fact that I do get easily annoyed at people, but most people I know I would imagine wouldn’t say I am an angry person, just basically someone who gets annoyed at stupid things.

I tend to think you might be half-right about that -heh.

But it’s nowhere near as bad as the Worldview Weekend survey, where a participant who strongly opposes the idea of God’s existence is more inline with Christian principle than one who only “agrees” that he exists. Or something like that…

IPIP-NEO/Political Compass Meme

… At any rate, if you like this sort of thing, feel free to participate. Like Howard at the Smedley log, I have included the Chris Lightfoot political survey. …

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