• cmhe@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    How does that site locates the origin (0,0)?

    Shouldn’t the origin be the center of mass of the position of all people or something?

    I sort of doubt that the average opinion of all people, or at least a representative subset, is between “Die Grünen” and “Die Linke”.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtf
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      13 days ago

      They have a bit on that kind of thing on the site … iirc … lemme see if I can find it for you… alas, no, failed to find from skim reading its menus and https://politicalcompass.org/about , https://politicalcompass.org/faq , and other pages… I was sure they had a bit about where their center was, along with how their statements are weighted in the test, and how worded, and why they don’t change it.

      Also, measuring it by a popularity bellcurve would reduce its meaningfulness and utility. It’d make weather-vanes of far more of us, leaving fewer sign posts.