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{{DES | des = Libertarians are fond of misrepresentations such as the Nolan Chart, The Political Compass, and The World's Smallest Political Quiz.  These are primarily propaganda tools, with essentially no academic support.  In the US, the left-right axis is all that is really needed for understanding government.  Within the US, surveys reveal a typology of 8 primary political groups, none of them libertarian. | show=}}
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The Nolan Chart and World's Smallest Political Quiz are pretend political science classifications that look only at two bogus conceptions of "liberty" for their axes.  They are propaganda tools used for outreach by [[The Advocates for Self-Government]] and others.

The Political Compass is very weak model of political beliefs that is suitable only for propaganda memes. "Fill in the 4 spaces and you have a meme!" The obvious thing wrong with it is that almost everybody is in the center, where there isn't a space, and the memes ignore that. There are much better models of what people believe.

The Worlds Smallest Political Quiz, or "The Quiz" as it is popularly known, is a carefully planned piece of pseudoscientific recruiting propaganda. It qualifies people not as libertarians, but as people susceptible to becoming libertarians (a MUCH larger class, containing people of many different viewpoints.)

<b>The World's Smallester Political Quiz</b><br>
Are you an asshole?
* Yes: Libertarian
* No: Something else.
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