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I was prepared to be annoyed, but I think this might have actually contributed something. In political science, there are many axes/spectrums to grade things on

I was prepared to be annoyed, but I think this might have actually contributed something. In political science, there are many axes/spectrums to grade things on and even more ways to quantify them, but I haven't actually heard of this one specifically yet. Big fan of the whimsical naming too :) Also, I love the idea meta-political compass... As someone who's been on Twitter, yeah, that's a thing. We need a meta-meta-political compass now though. Let's fractal this.

HPsquared 5y ago
The 100-dimensional political model https://youtu.be/UuopBeaUN24 https://youtu.be/UuopBeaUN24 (Satire... I think)
dragonwriter 5y ago
> In political science, there are many axes/spectrums to grade things on and even more ways to quantify them, but I haven't actually heard of this one specifically yet. Inventing political axes is an easy polisci game. Pick any political phenomenon, now take its negation or inversion, boom, political axes. Descriptively meaningful political axes are derived from empirical measurement of political behavior within a domain of analysis, but most proposed political axes aren't intended to be descriptively meaningful, they are tools for advocacy.