Suggestion: "Official" Political Compass thread

[anticap]

I know, I know, the Political Compass (http://politicalcompass.org/) is flawed no matter who you ask. But the reason I make the suggestion is that I was thinking about this old thread at the former IIDB (http://freeratio.org/thearchives/showthread.php?t=212031), where a guy compared a bunch of sites from varying perspectives (http://homepage.mac.com/lpetrich/Politics/Compass/DensityPlots.html), and I thought it might be cool to have a thread where we could do the same. I don't know how to make those nifty blobs, but maybe someone else does, or at least how to do something like this:

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4030/policomp350nation.th.jpg (http://img202.imageshack.us/i/policomp350nation.jpg/)

Or, at the very least, we could just average everyone, and periodically recalculate the average after several more results have been posted.

Does anyone else think this would be interesting?

[The Idler]

Yeah but don't make another sticky topic, we have enough of those already.

[GPDP]

I think it would be neat for us to contact the guy who did this, and ask him to tally up our scores. If he has the likes of Scumfront documented, why not us?

[khad]

Just so you know, this was the original political compass by Pournelle, before the libertarians put their own spin on it:

http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.jpg

I oppose this.

[¿Que?]

It seems to me that it would probably entail minimal Excel skills, but depending on how many people participate, could be an hours maybe more work of data entry.

EDIT: However, if we factor in things like sex, race, age and other demographic variables, we could run some pretty *****in' regressions. Much more interesting than scatterplots, but not quite as fun to look at.

[Kassad]

I don't see enough threads about it to feel the need for an "official" thread. However, feel free to get people together for the project.