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In reply to the discussion: Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run? [View all]whopis01
(3,467 posts)Take the one you are showing, invert the y axis (put social libertarian at the top and social authoritarian at the bottom) then rotate it counter clockwise 45 degrees, rotate it clockwise 45 degrees and it will match the layout of the other graph.
Basically in the diamond shaped one they aren't plotting it top/bottom and left/right. They are plotting it on the diagonals from bottom left/top right and bottom right/top left.
I think the point is to take someone who is both socially libertarian and economic left and put them to the far left while making someone who is socially authoritarian and economic right move to the far right.
In either graph, the people in the corners are the most extreme in both measures.
Now whether there is anything meaningful in these graphs is a whole other discussion.