🧵 This is the third post in a repost chain about my Political Compass Project.

The Final Compass:

Before reading this section, I encourage you to read the first two posts for you to better understand the political compass and the survey methods I used.

After receiving the responses and plotting them, I created the graph seen below, containing all 50 users' compass dots:

As you can see, the majority of users are located in the bottom-left (left-libertarian) quadrant of the graph, which I think is explained by the general wasteof community and its target demographic (young people). We can see that the orange average dot shows the mean x/y position of the data and the dashed line plots the best-fit regression line for the relationship between economic score and social score.

Additionally, I plan on releasing the dataset (anonymized for those who chose to remain anonymous) publicly at some point in the future for anyone who wishes to do something else with it or analyze it in a different way. In the comments of the second post, I will provide a basic list of usernames of all the respondents.

Conclusion:

I found the experience of doing this project and its results really interesting and fun. I have other ideas for future experiments (Trolley Problem Survey, maybe?) but it will likely be a months before I do something else like this. Thank you to everyone who participated and those who helped me with any part of of the project!

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