# 2D political compass: where do you sit ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 17, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594 "2004-02-17T02:55:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/42 "2004-02-18T11:09:05Z")
> [@antechinus](#): > > Eh? So you were placed in the far down-left quadrant and you think you are more extreme than that? Was there a question about the environment? I forgot. If there was that may have centred you more. > The third dimension could be the environment. Like the economic-social-ecological triple-bottom-line used by business. It’s all relative. There were a few people to the left of me and I’m just so used to always having to fight the leftie corner except with good friends. Yes, there was somethings about companies being responsible about the environment and some of a more general in a “are we screwing up the planet” line of thought. Random question: Does believing in horoscopes make you more leftwing, rightwing, libertarian or authoritarian and why? That one really puzzled me. If I have time I will see which was test scores change by that one. Random thought: It seems as though the authoritarian left (top left corner) is seriouly out of fashion nowadays. Nobody in that corner, unless I overlooked someone. It’s not really surprising, though. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/43 "2004-02-18T15:10:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Random thought: It seems as though the authoritarian left (top left corner) is seriouly out of fashion nowadays. Nobody in that corner, unless I overlooked someone. It’s not really surprising, though. That’s partially an effect of this test; I’m pretty much socialist in my beliefs but I consistently test libertarian on this one - and it’s designed to make you “realize” that deep down, you’re a libertarian. (I don’t have a drop of libertarianism in me, aside from my liberalism on social issues. I’m a much better fit with the democrats.) It’s pretty worthless - too many of the questions “force” you to answer a certain way. In a discussion I read about the topic somewhere, someone pointed out that communists could easily create a rigged test like this - “It’s important for people to help one another. Yes or no?” Always consider the source - these questions are highly biased and loaded. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/44 "2004-02-18T15:51:47Z")
Economic Left/Right: 4.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.08 Haven’t changed much in the past year. Apparently I’m Friedman but nicer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/45 "2004-02-18T16:14:35Z")
I’ve also taken this before, but I like to take it every now and then to see if/how my views are changing. Economic Left/Right: -2.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77 Apparently, I’m creeping to the left. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/46 "2004-02-18T17:12:35Z")
Economic Left/Right: -4.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/47 "2004-02-18T17:32:27Z")
Economic Left/Right: -2.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69 Woot? ---
**Author:** ![Gopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gopher)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/48 "2004-02-18T19:22:14Z")
Economic Left/Right: -2.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.51 sounds about right to me ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/49 "2004-02-18T19:48:47Z")
Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -0.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36 I’m close to … Mozart? ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/50 "2004-02-18T21:31:24Z")
Economic Left/Right: 7.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.62 Close to Milton Friedman. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/51 "2004-02-18T21:51:41Z")
Economic Left/Right: -2.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.46 Looks like I’m in Dennis Kucinich territory! 😕 ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/52 "2004-02-18T22:54:00Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > That’s partially an effect of this test; I’m pretty much socialist in my beliefs but I consistently test libertarian on this one - and it’s designed to make you “realize” that deep down, you’re a libertarian. (I don’t have a drop of libertarianism in me, aside from my liberalism on social issues. I’m a much better fit with the democrats.) Yeah, i’m amazed how libertarian I was rated. I am all for rules and regulations -drawing a line in sand, over which you must not cross - and all that. Just because I think pot should be legalised and abortion not illegal, it makes me sound like a raving anarchist. **Buckleberry ferry** came out as the biggest facist with 4.25 (how did you do it?). Only 2 others just scraped into the positives on this axis, every one else tended libertarian. I agree it is heavily skewed to libertarian. ---
**Author:** ![guiness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ab097/32.png) [@guiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guiness)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/53 "2004-02-21T22:38:44Z")
Economic -4.88 Social -4.56 I think pot and abortion got me too, with a touch of sympathy for the artiste. Do the wards of asyla over flow with +/-10, +/-10 people? ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/54 "2004-02-21T23:06:35Z")
Economic Left/Right: 5.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.77 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/55 "2004-02-21T23:07:03Z")
I’m in that lonely quadrant on the lower right (well, barely right). No wonder I can’t figure out which candidate to support. ☹ Economic Left/Right: 1.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/56 "2004-02-22T00:08:04Z")
Economic Left/Right: 5.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.21 I’m okay with the economic part, but the slightly authoritarian part is what gets me. Authoritarian my @$$! this is definately slanted toward libertarianism. There should have been a “neither agree nor disagree” selection because there were some questions I just didn’t give a crap a about. That site sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/57 "2004-02-22T02:52:33Z")
Economic Left/Right: -3.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54 ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/58 "2004-02-22T15:04:33Z")
Economic Left/Right: 2.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36 Another Friedman-lite, although the site claims that I am nearly a Liberal Democrat ::snort:: . So far, the average doper scores -0.62, -3.74\*. Buncha lefties ;). Nobody at all in the upper left quadrant yet - don’t we have a token Stalinist? - I also scored 9.6 on the Too Much Time On Your Hands axis. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/59 "2004-02-22T16:00:20Z")
Economic Left/Right: 1.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49 Libertarian Right? ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/60 "2004-02-22T18:20:01Z")
Economic Left/Right: -2.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62 I ranked slightly more to the right on economics than DL did. I do agree that some of the questions were a bit skewed though. While I do find myself quite socially liberal, the wording of the questions skewed me more towards the left on economics than I would have fallen otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594/61 "2004-02-22T20:28:23Z")
Economic Left/Right: -2.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.95 Woo hoo! Dalai Lama territory! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2d-political-compass-where-do-you-sit/229594.md?page=4)