You are both likely familiar with my model (which is different and pretty much excludes spiritual-materialistic concepts): http://politicalobjectivestest.blogspot.com.au/2007/04/findings-of-test.html
I attempted to crush the numbers once my survey participants exceeded 100 and one of the conclusions (that a friend drew on looking at them) was that the vast majority of takers got results that could allow me to dismiss multi-dimensional models. It could go "socialist > liberal > conservative" if I wanted and very few would mind.
But I'm interested in minority perspectives and think that they matter and can potentially make a difference. A member of our choir has qualms about both free-markets and libertine mores and I would prefer if a model recognizes his existence (even if the poor fellow will never get much satisfaction from electoral politics).
I have another problem with left-and-right beyond lack of inclusiveness and that is that it is a description that changes reality. Many get introduced to it and then think "well if I believe x then I must also believe y" or even "if _they_ believe x and y then I must not believe in x and y".
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Date: 2016-04-19 07:49 am (UTC)I attempted to crush the numbers once my survey participants exceeded 100 and one of the conclusions (that a friend drew on looking at them) was that the vast majority of takers got results that could allow me to dismiss multi-dimensional models. It could go "socialist > liberal > conservative" if I wanted and very few would mind.
But I'm interested in minority perspectives and think that they matter and can potentially make a difference. A member of our choir has qualms about both free-markets and libertine mores and I would prefer if a model recognizes his existence (even if the poor fellow will never get much satisfaction from electoral politics).
I have another problem with left-and-right beyond lack of inclusiveness and that is that it is a description that changes reality. Many get introduced to it and then think "well if I believe x then I must also believe y" or even "if _they_ believe x and y then I must not believe in x and y".