I suggested in the survey thread to ask for Political Compass scores instead of a liberal/conservative/libertarian/socialist question. The Compass is slightly US-biased, but it contains enough questions for the end result to be significant even so. How much attention to politics would be an interesting question, I second that.
I suspect the compass is very US-based, though better than a short list or a single dimension.
there’s one more thing about interest in politics that I had trouble phrasing. There’s a thing that I call practical politics which I don’t do, but it’s working for particular candidates or being one yourself or knowing in some detail about the right place to push to get something to happen or not happen. It’s the step beyond voting and emailing your representative and signing petitions.
I’d be surprised if very many LWers do practical politics, but that might just be typical mind fallacy.
They do admit they’re biased, but the bias is not exactly American (indeed, they are British). And given that LW has lots of readers from non-US western countries but few from (say) China, while not ideal, it would be a lot better than the very US-centric answers in the last survey. (For example, I’d bet that a lot of people would have self-identified as socialist libertarians if given the chance.)
I suggested in the survey thread to ask for Political Compass scores instead of a liberal/conservative/libertarian/socialist question. The Compass is slightly US-biased, but it contains enough questions for the end result to be significant even so. How much attention to politics would be an interesting question, I second that.
I suspect the compass is very US-based, though better than a short list or a single dimension.
there’s one more thing about interest in politics that I had trouble phrasing. There’s a thing that I call practical politics which I don’t do, but it’s working for particular candidates or being one yourself or knowing in some detail about the right place to push to get something to happen or not happen. It’s the step beyond voting and emailing your representative and signing petitions.
I’d be surprised if very many LWers do practical politics, but that might just be typical mind fallacy.
They do admit they’re biased, but the bias is not exactly American (indeed, they are British). And given that LW has lots of readers from non-US western countries but few from (say) China, while not ideal, it would be a lot better than the very US-centric answers in the last survey. (For example, I’d bet that a lot of people would have self-identified as socialist libertarians if given the chance.)