Minority Report
Apr. 16th, 2005 01:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nameandnatureOver at Political Survey 2005 you can answer a load of questions, and it will then place you on two axes, as determined by a clever statistical technique based on a much larger survey described in the Times. It turns out that what differentiated their sample of people was not conventional socialist/conservative economic politics, but rather their attitudes to crime and punishment and to internationalism. People who favour tougher punishment tend to be less internationalist, that is, anti-Europe and anti-immigration. A second, much less important, differentiating factor is a free market/socialist division, which is strongly correlated to attitudes to the war in Iraq. You can read some more technical details in Chris Lightfoot's blog.
So, here's where I am:
It seems I'm to the left of a lot of people on the most significant axis, but to the right of most people on the free market/pro-war axis (I'm not pro-war, as it happens, but I did say that businesses were more competent than government institutions).
The interesting thing about this survey is the correlations it shows, though: as the Times article points out, the thing that separates out people surveyed (and so indicates the battleground in the forthcoming General Election, if we believe their sample was representative) was the Europe and crime.
So, here's where I am:
It seems I'm to the left of a lot of people on the most significant axis, but to the right of most people on the free market/pro-war axis (I'm not pro-war, as it happens, but I did say that businesses were more competent than government institutions).
The interesting thing about this survey is the correlations it shows, though: as the Times article points out, the thing that separates out people surveyed (and so indicates the battleground in the forthcoming General Election, if we believe their sample was representative) was the Europe and crime.
