I found this posted on the excellent Alan Slomans blog in the UK.
I'm pretty sure he won't mind me posting it here.
It will be interesting to see how US folk compare.
Try to be honest when filling in the questionaire, and be honest with the result.
I was -8.00 on the Economic Left/Right score, and -5.79 on the Social Libertarian/Authortarian scale.
The questionaire is HERE

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44

I was Economic Left/Right: -3.25 and Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

Closest to Ghandi but a little more to the right economically.

I found the way they posed some questions interesting - using the left's questions about corporations for instance, and applying them to public broadcassting.

I'd expect the average European and even the average Brit to land more to the left, because certain big questions in the USA (funding social services, universal health care, high-quality public broadcasting) are more taken for granted when they've been in place for 2 or 3 generations.

Economic Left Right: 1.75
Social Libertarian/ Authoritarian: -7.18

I came out a little to the right of Genghis Khan.

--B.G.--

Economic Left Right: 4.25
Social Libertarian/ Authoritarian: -1.69

I think I broke it, it wasn't prepared for extremes.

Nick, i love you!:)

Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

Although these bosses have parents on Medicare, collecting Social Security checks, and their kids attend public colleges and universities, etc.

Edited by todd1960 on 02/10/2012 12:38:42 MST.

My score is also the diopter measurement of my glasses. Are bookworms more to the left? And far-sighted hunters more to the right?

Todd: I know a lot of "libertarians" like that.

To me, quite a few of the questions were really providing "false choices" -- either this or that when the two choices aren't necessarily mutually exclusive! Regardless, after taking the test, the result jives with how I view myself. Back in my school days, I was a centrist with a slight tilt to the right. Now, I am a centrist with a slight tilt to the left.

I languish in the lower right hand corner. But everyone knows I did not have to take the test to determine that.

Attila the Hun would have been proud of you Nick. ;
I'm still waiting on Dan McHale to take up my invite to submit his results.

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.46

Very close to Ghandi

lower right for me

I am still waiting for an extreme upper right. C'mon, identify yourself! :)

Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21

I'm off to hug a tree ;-)

I prefer to think of myself as BEING the compass.

Cheers

"I am still waiting for an extreme upper right. C'mon, identify yourself! :)"

They can't, they are occupying some street at the moment :)

The far, far right and far, far left usually merge in some time/space continuum where the speed is so great and the time spent reducing to zero results in convergence, anarchy and death. Best not to play around with physics.

I lie just a little ways into the lower left quadrant, perhaps a compassionate libertarian

Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.28