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Shortly afterward, Hans Eysenck began researching political attitudes in the United Kingdom. 1.000

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Simplified: Hans Eysenck began researching political attitudes in the United Kingdom

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As a result of this method, care must be taken in the interpretation of Ferguson's three factors, as factor analysis will output an abstract factor whether an objectively real factor exists or not. 0.900

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Simplified: Care must be taken in interpreting Ferguson's factors

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He defined religionism as belief in God and negative attitudes toward evolution and birth control; humanitarianism as being related to attitudes opposing war, capital punishment and harsh treatment of... 1.000

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Simplified: Ferguson defined religionism humanitarianism nationalism

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This system was derived empirically, as rather than devising a political model on purely theoretical grounds and testing it, Ferguson's research was exploratory. 1.000

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Simplified: Ferguson's system was derived empirically his research was exploratory

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Submitting the results to factor analysis, he was able to identify three factors, which he named religionism, humanitarianism and nationalism. 1.000

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Simplified: Ferguson identified religionism humanitarianism nationalism using factor analysis

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In 1950, Leonard W. Ferguson analyzed political values using ten scales measuring attitudes toward: birth control, capital punishment, censorship, communism, evolution, law, patriotism, theism, treatm... 1.000

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Simplified: Leonard W Ferguson analyzed political values in 1950 using ten scales

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For almost a century, social scientists have considered the problem of how to best describe political variation. 1.000

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Simplified: Social scientists have considered how to describe political variation

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"The Right" thus implied support for aristocratic or royal interests and the church, while "The Left" implied support for republicanism, secularism and civil liberties. 1.000

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Simplified: "The Right" implied support for aristocracy church "The Left" implied support for republicanism civil liberties

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As seen from the Speaker's seat at the front of the Assembly, the aristocracy sat on the right (traditionally the seat of honor) and the commoners sat on the left, hence the terms right-wing politics... 1.000

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Simplified: Aristocracy sat on the right commoners sat on the left in the Assembly

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Originally, the defining point on the ideological spectrum was the Ancien Régime ("old order"). 1.000

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Simplified: Originally the defining point was the Ancien Régime

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The terms right and left refer to political affiliations originating early in the French Revolutionary era of 1789–1799 and referred originally to the seating arrangements in the various legislative b... 1.000

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Simplified: Right and left terms originated in French Revolutionary era

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Although the descriptive words at polar opposites may vary, the axes of popular biaxial spectra are usually split between economic issues (on a left–right dimension) and socio-cultural issues (on an a... 1.000

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Simplified: Biaxial spectra axes are usually split between economic and socio-cultural issues

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Some political scientists have noted that a single left–right axis is too simplistic and insufficient for describing the existing variation in political beliefs and include other axes to compensate fo... 1.000

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Simplified: Political scientists note left-right axis is too simplistic

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Politics that rejects the conventional left–right spectrum is often known as syncretic politics. 1.000

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Simplified: Politics rejecting left-right spectrum is often syncretic politics

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Those with an intermediate outlook are sometimes classified as centrists. 1.000

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Simplified: Intermediate outlook individuals are sometimes classified as centrists

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Liberalism can mean different things in different contexts, being sometimes on the left (social liberalism) and other times on the right (conservative liberalism or classical liberalism). 1.000

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Simplified: Liberalism can be on the left or right depending on context

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While communism and socialism are usually regarded internationally as being on the left, conservatism and reactionism are generally regarded as being on the right. 1.000

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Simplified: Communism socialism are usually on the left conservatism reactionism are generally on the right

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Most long-standing spectra include the left–right dimension as a measure of social, political and economic hierarchy which originally referred to seating arrangements in the French parliament after th... 1.000

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Simplified: Long-standing spectra include the left-right dimension as a measure of hierarchy

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The expressions political compass and political map are used to refer to the political spectrum as well, especially to popular two-dimensional models of it. 1.000

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Simplified: Political compass political map refer to the political spectrum

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These positions sit upon one or more geometric axes that represent independent political dimensions. 1.000

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Simplified: Political positions sit upon geometric axes representing political dimensions

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