What are your political leanings? (The other thread has a lame poll)

[BF]

Biggest problem with the poll is that the definitions for things like centre-left, right etc are determined by the OP, rather than the respondent's own interpretation of the definitions. It would be better if eg for the first question, where would you put yourself socially, it was like:

Q: Where do you believe that you stand on social issues, in-general?
- Definitely progressive
- Somewhat progressive
- Indifferent/neutral
- Somewhat conservative
- Definitely conservative
- Not sure

And for questions like environmental protection (actually a terrible question to ask; all people care for protecting the environment, it's just that people disagree on how much the environment needs protecting, and how to protect it), well I was going to suggest a way of re-writing it, but even I couldn't, and now you can see why professional pollsters are a thing.

[Daniel Smith]

[QUOTE=Ctrl;52059848]Done, new one should be in GD[/QUOTE]

I will, just pretend this is a test poll.

[QUOTE=aznz888;52062909]This poll is decent but the questions are definitely leaning towards the left when it comes to assessing the poller's guilt about them. Try to remain more neutral and objective in the questions[/QUOTE]

That was somewhat accidental.

[QUOTE=Zombinie;52062961]So are you revising and re-releasing it at all? Or is this it[/QUOTE]

I would, but I'd have to create a new one because you cannot really edit the questions. I'd probably do that in a few months and put more effort into it.

[QUOTE=BF;52064799]Biggest problem with the poll is that the definitions for things like centre-left, right etc are determined by the OP, rather than the respondent's own interpretation of the definitions. It would be better if eg for the first question, where would you put yourself socially, it was like:

Q: Where do you believe that you stand on social issues, in-general?
- Definitely progressive
- Somewhat progressive
- Indifferent/neutral
- Somewhat conservative
- Definitely conservative
- Not sure

And for questions like environmental protection (actually a terrible question to ask; all people care for protecting the environment, it's just that people disagree on how much the environment needs protecting, and how to protect it), well I was going to suggest a way of re-writing it, but even I couldn't, and now you can see why professional pollsters are a thing.[/QUOTE]

Noted.

[Fulcrum]

Would be better to ask questions about what one would do in certain scenarios.

The reason any serious poll won't ask "are you authoritarian" is nobody will say they are, they'll say they respect the law, they'll say order must be kept despite the costs, they'll say they they have nothing to hide so they have nothing to fear.