Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale
29 May 2023, 9:40 am
I moderately agreed on the freedom of religion question because I'm typically for that unless the religion in question tramples on human rights.
I got a low percentage but I didn't answer every question as an absolute yes or no although many I did.
Well I didn't give "strongly agree" or "strongly disagree" answers to everything, there are some questions for which my feelings are not that extreme for example I am a bit wishy-washy on the abortion thing as I have sympathy for the pro-life cause although not because of any religious belief. Also I had a problem deciding exactly who the "established authorities" are, as after all right-wingers in today's US are fond of saying they're "anti-government" whereas at the beginning of the Cold War "authority" was pretty much Christian and anti-Left so if you were on the Right you were definitely pro-authority (apart from being authoritarian) unless you were one of those who believed the established authorities weren't far enough to the Right e.g. the John Birch society. Although there was a lot of right-wing animosity towards the Supreme Court, which I suppose had a lot of legacy justices from the Roosevelt-Truman era.
29 May 2023, 10:19 am
I didn't need to take another test for this because I did the Political Compass test years ago which said I'm mostly a left-wing libertarian, and that fits fairly well with how I see myself. I do sometimes think it might be better if a truly left-wing government started using force to implement socialism, but I can't be sure it would turn out very well. As for authority in general, I never like deferring to it unless I can clearly see that the authority figure is benign and competent, and that doesn't happen much, so most of my deferring is just to survive when the authority has more fire-power than I have.
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29 May 2023, 10:59 am
For what it's worth, this evaluates something different than the political compass test.
But also, one's results on tests like this won't remain perfectly consistent over time.
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29 May 2023, 5:14 pm
I also got 7.39%.
It was too obvious to me what the "right" answers were, which limits the value of the test (and indeed any similar political quiz).
The answers where I didn't choose the "right" answer:
I selected "neutral" to this, although perhaps I should have selected "agree". I sympathise with this point of view, and would generally rather trust an academic than an activist, but I also think establishments (especially partisan ones) can get things wrong and dissent (even when incorrect) is important in a functioning democracy.
I selected "strong disagree", when the "correct" answer was "very strongly disagree".
I can confirm Mikah's results - 4.55% when I selected the "right" answers to every question. I suspect there is a good chance this is intentional rather than a bug - they probably don't want to give the two extreme scores.
