[Alasdair]

Cool - how did you do that? I tried to do it in excel, but couldn't the other day...

[DayneD89]

Yer, excel wouldn't let me do it either, but openoffice.org did. I love open source software :-) I will update it as more results come in. I'm sure you can tell that the different colors are for different parties.

[Lampshade]

(Original post by Alasdair)
Cool - how did you do that? I tried to do it in excel, but couldn't the other day...

I'm surprised that someone with your political views is using proprietary software like MS office..

[DayneD89]

(Original post by Lampshade)
I'm surprised that someone with your political views is using proprietary software like MS office..

My thoughts exactly. I use linux with non-proprietary software on my P.C. mind I'm not on my P.C. right now, But still, where available I use Linux, openoffice etc...

[ukebert]

I would do all of the above, but haven't got round to it

[Lampshade]

(Original post by DayneD89)
My thoughts exactly. I use linux with non-proprietary software on my P.C. mind I'm not on my P.C. right now, But still, where available I use Linux, openoffice etc...

I do use openoffice tbh. Why pay for something if I can get something that will do the same job for free . Thankfully, there is no political motive behind my software choices. If the makers of openoffice funded torture in guantanamo bay and killed babies, I'd still use it to save my pocket.

[DayneD89]

what Linux and everything? its a steep learning curve but worth it when you (finally) succeed in getting it all working. The easy way is to use the windows versions of openoffice and aMSN and firefox. That was your running free software on a propriety operating system.

[Alasdair]

(Original post by Lampshade)
Thankfully, there is no political motive behind my software choices.

And there you have your answer.

[ukebert]

I have firefox, but that's as far as I've got I'd rather do interesting things on a computer than spend years setting it up tbh.

[DayneD89]

I use most my software not for financial or political reasons, Just because I hate propriety software and license agreements. but were getting off topic here.

[UniOfLife]

I must say I'm a little concerned at how extreme all the Socialists seem to be. Is the test skewed?

[Lampshade]

(Original post by Alasdair)
And there you have your answer.

It's just that usually, you socialists tend to go the whole hog with your lifestyle choices so they conform to your political views. Apologies for the generalisations that my mind makes.

[ukebert]

(Original post by UniOfLife)
I must say I'm a little concerned at how extreme all the Socialists seem to be. Is the test skewed?

It is, yes. Generally it is accepted that you tend to come out more in the bottom quadrant than you may really be.

[DayneD89]

(Original post by UniOfLife)
I must say I'm a little concerned at how extreme all the Socialists seem to be. Is the test skewed?

maybe knowing there test results would be displayed they exagerated there opinions. But maybe we all did. who knows.

[Alasdair]

(Original post by Lampshade)
It's just that usually, you socialists tend to go the whole hog with your lifestyle choices so they conform to your political views. Apologies for the generalisations that my mind makes.

Nope, I drink Coke, and work for a company that makes money, and I vote in bourgeois democratic elections. I don't believe in boycotting for boycotting's sake.

[ukebert]

(Original post by Lampshade)
It's just that usually, you socialists tend to go the whole hog with your lifestyle choices so they conform to your political views. Apologies for the generalisations that my mind makes.

I would, but I can't be bothered with the inherent inconvenience to that approach

[Alasdair]

(Original post by UniOfLife)
I must say I'm a little concerned at how extreme all the Socialists seem to be. Is the test skewed?

I'd be more worried by how far 'up' the authoritarian/libertarian scale some of your members are...

I dunno, mine feels pretty right and is what I've been consistently scoring for a few years now. My economic scale tends to float in the 9 range, and my libertarianism between 8 and 9...

[UniOfLife]

(Original post by Alasdair)
I'd be more worried by how far 'up' the authoritarian/libertarian scale some of your members are...

I dunno, mine feels pretty right and is what I've been consistently scoring for a few years now. My economic scale tends to float in the 9 range, and my libertarianism between 8 and 9...

Well if you only ever take this one test consistency doesn't tell us very much. But I mean, look at DG, he's nowhere near as extreme on the scale as I would have expected which implies some skew in the results.

Anyone know of any other similar tests for comparison purposes?

[Yuffie]

Holla -8.88,-5.38

[Metrobeans]

(Original post by Lampshade)
I do use openoffice tbh. Why pay for something if I can get something that will do the same job for free . Thankfully, there is no political motive behind my software choices. If the makers of openoffice funded torture in guantanamo bay and killed babies, I'd still use it to save my pocket.

Oh, I quite agree. Which is why the copy of MS Office on my home computer is pirated.