# Where Are You on the Political Compass **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631 "2010-10-09T19:45:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/81 "2010-10-13T12:18:30Z")
I’m casting suspicious glances at anyone who winds up on the positive side of the libertarian/authoritarian ledger… ---
**Author:** ![BigDadWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@BigDadWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDadWolf)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/82 "2010-10-13T13:01:25Z")
Economic Left/Right: -4.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.46 Seems to put me not too far from Ghandi so not in too bad of a neighborhood. There were very few questions I could answer strongly agree/disagree so I would have guessed I would have been closer to the center. I do tend to be a “live and let live” sort of person though. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/83 "2010-10-13T13:34:33Z")
I’ve moved further to the right since the last time I took the test, although some questions could have gone either way depending on my mood, so who the hell knows how accurate it really is. Economic Left/Right: 4.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.15 ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/84 "2010-10-13T13:53:09Z")
Economic Left/Right: -4.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/85 "2010-10-13T13:57:22Z")
Left/Right: -4.88. Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.08 Man, I’ve really become more liberal as I’ve aged. I’m surprised to find my self on the Libertarian side, though. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/86 "2010-10-13T14:04:01Z")
Economic Left/Right: -0.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.87 I’m still a centrist with, at this point arguably, some conservative opinions, but I can’t help seeing what I’m seeing. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/87 "2010-10-13T14:21:14Z")
Economic Left/Right: -3.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/88 "2010-10-13T14:27:43Z")
Economic Left/Right: 5.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.51 I’m in the quadrant that I expected I’d be in, but I thought I’d be more socially libertarian than I rated. Rather close to Milton Friedman’s ranking, too… 🆒 ETA: Some of the questions are things I don’t give a rat’s ass about, but there was no option for don’t care. I had to opt for agree or disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/89 "2010-10-13T14:48:27Z")
Economic Left/Right: -0.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00 ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/90 "2010-10-13T19:55:32Z")
Economic Left/Right: 2.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.46 I would have thought both numbers would be higher, but some of the questions were worded in such a way that the answer I had to give (based on the question phrasing) probably does not reflect my overall belief system. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/91 "2010-10-13T20:05:57Z")
Economic Left/Right: -5.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38 [About the same as Ralph Nadar](http://www.politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2008). ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/92 "2010-10-13T20:19:39Z")
Economic Left/Right: 0.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.82 I’d say it’s pretty accurate. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/93 "2010-10-14T12:38:37Z")
L/R: -6.25 L/A: -2.10 I also went back and took it with what I believed were my “conservative” values before I came here: L/R: -3.12 L/A: -0.62 ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/94 "2010-10-14T13:21:55Z")
Economic Left/Right: -5.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23 ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/95 "2010-10-14T17:15:56Z")
Economic Left/Right: 1.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.56 Like Jose Zapatero. WTH? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/96 "2010-10-19T09:25:55Z")
Economic Left/Right: -2.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.72 Wow, that puts me in the Libertarian Left grid. I considered myself a moderate conservative socially and a moderate economically, but this compass seems to disagree. ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/97 "2010-10-19T14:21:49Z")
Economic Left/Right: -7.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46 ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/98 "2010-10-19T17:30:51Z")
Economic Left/Right: -7.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97 ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/99 "2010-10-20T20:54:25Z")
Economic Left/Right: -3.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.82 ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631/100 "2010-10-20T21:09:14Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > Economic +6.88 > Social - 5.18 > > I am always in the deserted quadrant of Milton Friedman and no one else. Hi. Economic Left/Right: +5.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.00 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-political-compass/556631.md?page=6)