[Atlantean_Relic]

My results: Apparently the only axis I travel on is the right, left one.
Economic Left/Right: -3.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.10

[napoleon]

Stephen Harper go to hell and bring the rest of Canada with you.

I'm an anarchist and loving it!

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('napoleon', 'S')tephen Harper go to hell and bring the rest of Canada with you.

I'm an anarchist and loving it!

[Ludi]

Economic Left/Right: -5.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.97

[J-Rod]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79

But yeah, some of those questions were a bit open ended and/or misleading. Fun to do in any case.

[Jack]

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 8.67

Imagine that.

[dissimulo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', 'E')conomic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 8.67

[emersonbiggins]

Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

[sciencegirl]

Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10

I don't know how acurate this test is, I think in reality I lean towards communism.

[themallard]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.03

[rwwff]

Sheesh, I'm the closest to the political center of anyone posting, and I thought I was the most active partisan.

Grumble....

[strider3700]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.95

I'm a gun toting peace loving environmentalist. Not too shocking it all balanced out.

I don't hate the left or the right. I just hate the extreams

[NEOPO]

I am Ghandi reincarnated!!!!

[venky]

Hell, this forum is infested with commies!!

-0.45, 0.65

The center ground rocks

[Denny]

I seem to be middle of the road:

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.15

But, I found the questions are too cliched. It would be better if the questions were actual situational judgement ones.

For instance I do believe that the most imprtant "occupation" of any parent is a happy homelife. But, its not something I feel should be, or even could be, legislated.

Likewise, for me, it important my children be schooled in a relgious school, but I can't say this its best for you, and in fact, it would be hypocritical for you to send your kids to a religious school if you do not practice it yourself.

[The_Toecutter]

I retook it just now.

Economic Left/Right: 0.36
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.06

Hasn't changed much from a year ago.

[nwildmand]

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.08

way closer to center than i thought it would be.i was sure i would end up more fascist that.

i took the test again to try to skew it as far to the upper right as i could and i got
Economic Left/Right: 7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 7.69

how you few people got past the +/-7.75 mark is beyond me.

it would be interesting to make a chart of us all and see where we are all at. i would do it but i know nothing of graphic design.

[The_Toecutter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'i') took the test again to try to skew it as far to the upper right as i could and i got
Economic Left/Right: 7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 7.69

[ClassicSpiderman]

Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.67

The test is hardly accurate. It tries to create a 2 dimensional graph and claims that this is superior to a left-right scale, but in reality, politics is a 3 dimensional cube which can be represented with the following policy positions

-Economics
-Social Issues
-Foreign policy

And from these, you would have to split into subcategories:

ECONOMICS
-Trade position (protectionist vs liberalized)
-Social safety net (welfare state vs self-reliance)
-Market economy (socialist vs capitalist)

SOCIAL ISSUES
-Morality (free love VS sharia)
-Authority (liberty VS security)

FOREIGN POLICY
-Military (pacifist VS assertive)
-Geopolitics (internationalist VS isolationist)

So with this, you can more accurately describe political personalities like Pat Buchanan who describes himself as a capitalist but believes in protectionism, who is a social conservative and although he believes in an assertive military, he does not believe in engaging in foreign wars. You can have pacifists on the left, but they will get involved in international engagements (example: Bill Clinton's war against Serbia).

One can be a social conservative without believing in a more authoritarian society.

[gego]

As a latecomer to this poll:

Economics +6.63
Social -6.41

I would say that of all the scores revealed by other posters, I am in a category with very little company, down in the lower right quadrant.

There are not too many people who believe simultaneously in economic and social freedom, both here and in general society as indicated by this poll and the consistent failure of the Libertarian Party to get much more than 5% of the vote in elections.

I have never really fully figured out why it is that people who tend to believe in economic freedom have a strong tendency to want to deny people personal freedom, and those who believe in personal freedom have a strong tendency to want to deny people economic freedom, hence the strength in the lower left quadrant and upper right quadrant; seems that not many trust others to live fully free lives. My best guess is projection, where social authoritarians really don't thrust themselves to live responsibly in their personal lives so they opt for external societal controls, and the economic control freaks want economic controls/support because they do not trust that they are capable of representing themselves in the money department successfully on their own.