It almost always gives one left-right dimension except in really unusual cases of a political system in the throes of change, such as the US in the late 1960s when segregationism was coming apart in the South. I've thought that it oughta be possible to do the same for ordinary citizens who sometimes answer a panel of 50 or so questions on a public opinion poll. I've got the data to make it work but the dimensional reduction methods that I've used for continuous variables don't work well for categorical variables where you need a different loss function.
incomingpain•7mo ago
It asks me my country(Not usa), then asks loads of US politics questions.
ArisC•7mo ago
thanatos519•7mo ago
> In general, I believe government spending should be decreased to reduce the burden on taxpayers.
> In general, I believe government spending should be increased to fund more public services.
PaulHoule•7mo ago
This factor analysis for legislator behavior is pretty interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_(scaling_method)
It almost always gives one left-right dimension except in really unusual cases of a political system in the throes of change, such as the US in the late 1960s when segregationism was coming apart in the South. I've thought that it oughta be possible to do the same for ordinary citizens who sometimes answer a panel of 50 or so questions on a public opinion poll. I've got the data to make it work but the dimensional reduction methods that I've used for continuous variables don't work well for categorical variables where you need a different loss function.