The Political Compass is inaccurate and/or misleading

The political compass comprises of two independent scales represented on a single plane. Both scales pertain to the degree of governmental intervention one would favor in their ideal society, but differ on which aspects of society (economic or social) are to be taken as variables for their estimations. For reasons I do understand, my opponent refuses to accept that the terms used operate only as they pertain to the axis they are applied to. The axes employ terms that define the extremes of what each axis sets out to gauge (economic or social). I fail to see how using terms to represent major components of their respective ideologies makes the compass inaccurate or misleading - especially when it’s explicitly explained that this is how the terms are being used. Rebuttals: 1) “Con claims that the political compass is not calling conservatives authoritarian, but rather social authoritarians. Nowhere on the website does it differentiate between the two; rather their own website associates authoritarianism and libertarianism with social issues. “ The compass is not using the terms differently than how they are commonly understood, but rather establishing a specific dichotomy with terms with opposing views pertaining to what the spectrum is measuring. It’s incredibly myopic to accuse the compass of equating conservatives with authoritarianism, as the latter term entails much more as it stands than it would it does within the compass. Authoritarian is on the social scale, and deriving economic implications from it - as my opponent does when he accuses the compass of equating conservatism with the broad term - means he doesn’t understand the basics of the compass. 2) “If Con is correct, and the political compass is only focusing on part of the platform, than the compass suffers from selection bias. When creating a political spectrum chart; if you create arbitrary axes, the chart becomes pseudoscientific. Science is not arbitrary, and you cannot create a scientific chart with arbitrary axes. The chart is inaccurate for these very reasons; the chart is deceptive due to the semantic shift.” My opponent apparently doesn’t know what selection bias means, nor does he understand the point I was trying to make. If you refer to what he is responding to, you will see his blatant use of straw mans. 3) “The political compass does not take into account, that socioeconomic collectivism is also authoritarian.” This quote is pretty much representative of all the misguided and false arguments my opponent has posited throughout this debate. Namely, my opponent is taking the terms used out of context, and attempting to apply them to things outside how the terms are being used. Then, when his straw manning of the definitions of terms doesn’t seem to produce valid results, he throws up his hands and proclaims the compass to be inaccurate. The compass could just have easily labeled the economic axis with ‘authoritarian’ on the one side, and ‘libertarian’ on the other, because each of these respective terms entails with it either ‘left’ economic views or ‘right’ economic views. 4) “In his rebuttal, con has contradicted himself. First he claims that the Right Wing does not refer to conservatism. To rebut the semantic shift he claims that the right wing of the political compass is conservatism, and due to the authoritarian-libertarian axis, conservatives are not being labeled right wing authoritarians. Not only is this a contradiction, but it is fallacious reasoning. Just because the political compass is labeled a certain way does not mean the results are accurate. Pro’s rebuttal did not address my point about inaccuracy; it only served to contradict his repetitive argument.” Your arguments are beginning to get exhausting to refute. The ‘right’ and ‘left’ used apply to the economic views of each of these respectively. There is no vague ‘right wing’ or ‘left wing’ mentioned. These would only be derived from the appropriate analysis of how the compass would define these terms. If authoritarianism as it’s used in the compass entails only authoritarian social views, it’s misleading to claim the compass just equates conservatives with ‘authoritarianism.’ 5) “So far pro has not rebutted my arguments; he has just danced around them. The political compass is inaccurate, and pseudoscientific. By redefining words, and shifting the results, the compass has created a semantic shift. By semantically shifting political terms, the political compass is being deceptive.” There are no arguments to speak of. You are just repeating your mantra of blatantly false proclamations, reducing any rebuttals I have to denial of your obviously false claims, a lot like refuting the claim that 2+2 = 5. Once again, the compass does not redefine words, it does not create a semantic shift (I don’t even know what you mean by this), and it is most certainly not inaccurate or misleading. Anyone who understands the compass will see this.