eAus RL political survey — results
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by supereviloverlord
The eAus RL political survey has run for about a week so here are the results.
I got 27 useful results (i.e. eAus citizens or close enough who gave me political compass results) which really isn't enough but I'll see what I can come up with out of it.
Overall Results
The median economics score was -3.75 and the mean was -2.20, the median social score was -2.46 and the mean was -2.24.
On the whole most of the population of eAus appears to be leftist and libertarian leaning.
The economic scores varied over a range of -8.38 to +8.00 while the social scores varied over a range of -7.38 to 3.59.
The extremism of a person on each scale is just the absolute value of that scale.
The median extremism is 4.50 on economic issue and 2.62 on social issues while the mean extremism is 4.18 on economic issues and 3.02 on social issues.
By Economic Viewpoint
For this stage those who scored as left-wing were separated from those who scored as right-wing.
Among the left-wingers (19 of 'em) the median economics score was -4.75 with a mean of -4.53, the median social score was -2.62 with a mean of -2.69.
Among the right-wingers (8 of 'em) the median economics score was 2.06 with a mean of 3.33, the median social score was -0.18 with a mean of -1.17.
By Social Viewpoint
For this stage those who scored as libertarian were separated from those who scored as authoritarian.
Among the libertarians (21 of 'em) the median social score was -3.23 with a mean of -3.38, the median economics score was -4.25 with a mean of -3.15.
Among the authoritarians (6 of 'em) the median social score was 1.33 with a mean of 1.75, the median economics score was 1.19 with a mean of 1.10.
Political Parties
Of those who took this test there were 8 members from the Australian Communist Party, 3 from the Australian National Party, 3 from the Australian Parliamentary Party, 6 from the Australian Revolutionary Party, 2 from the Green and Gold Party, 1 from the KnightHawks Military Council and 4 not in any eAus party (hope none of the PPs hate my choice of colour for them).
Here is how extreme the party members are:
Here are the Median and Mean of each party plotted.
Political Orientation
The political orientations each party has set have been added to the graph of party medians (in the form of a bowtie in each party's colour).
This first graph sets far left and right to ±10, centre left and right to ±4 and centre to 0 on the economic scale while using ±3.5 for Libertarian and Authoritarian (the Anarchist and Totalitarian orientations aren't used by any legitimate eAus party but I would set them to ±10).
Rescaling the orientations to match the political spectrum that actually appears in eAus can give us party orientation numbers more likely to match the real parties.
To do this a region of the political spectrum which roughly matches what we see in eAus was chosen (it is the dashed rectangle).
In this case far left is set to -8, centre-left to -4, centre to -1, centre-right to 2 and far-right to 6 while libertarian is set to -3.5 and authoritarian is set to -0.5.
Whether you can actually draw any conclusions given the limited dataset is another matter.
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It's interesting to note that some of the parties are nothing like what they claim to be in-game, i.e. ANP is more centre than centre-right, ACP is centre-left rather than far-left. Of course, the more data points could very well rectify this, this survey isn't exactly representative of the entire party population. On the other hand, it could just show that ideology in eRep politics is a load of bollocks.
Overall, though, this is a fascinating study.
Was thinking the same thing Banzai.
Well I help skew the ACP data, RL member of the Liberal Party of Australia, eRep member of ACP. The 2 aren't really much of a match
Interesting how most responders are economic "left". Maybe need to look into the proportion of players that are collecting welfare and playing online games instead of working irl, that might explain it!
Jack Lantos, WIthout RL welfare, Nobody would be playing eRepublik in Australia.
Wrong, James Rellori. Many of us have barely taken a brass e-razoo from the eAus government since starting to play eRep.
Wherever did you get that idea from James?
TJ, I think he was saying that without welfare from the real government, not the egovernment... implying we have no jobs. That may be true for me, but thats because I'm a student 😛
Well I help skew the ACP data, RL member of the Liberal Party of Australia, eRep member of ACP. The 2 aren't really much of a match
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