If you completed the "test" and could see the results page, you will likely note:
1) they make the effort to examine lots of politicians and "state" leaders for where they fit in the spectrum as they define it, but they make NO EFFORT whatsoever to examine where producers fit politically. They make no mention whatsoever of the people who have created the wealth of the world through hard work.
2) They have placed no "state" leaders in the lower right quadrant that represents more libertarian social thinking and more free market economics.

Left/Right 7.5
Up/Down -4.25

The questions were obscenely manipulative.

The test itself is political propaganda, by assuming that the state should be involved in all facets of life.
Frustrating, over simplified, and lacking any choice of answer that reflects my thinking.
Obviously, I don't fit anywhere in their political spectrum.
If I was a politician, that would be a reason for my obvious superiority and an excuse for my singular suitability to rule.

This reminds me of the Nolan Chart and "the world's smallest political quiz". They got pretty much the same of me as Marshall Fritz, +7.5 economically and -5 socially. The Libertarian quiz took just 10 questions.

I'm not interested in taking any test that does not offer at least one *rational* response to a question.

I took the test just for kicks, ran into the 1st of the "you have to answer all the questions" and forced myself thru it just to get "my" score: economic 6.5, authoritarian -3.54. I'm in agreement, however, with others of you who have made criticisms of the test. When the question is written with 4 false premises in it, and you have to answer it with pre-written answers, you get.....dreck.
I'm curious if the site would let me go back in and print out [do a screen shot, probably] of the questions. I don't remember them well enough to say much about them - except that they over-fulfilled my frustration quotient for the day!

I would expect Ayn Rand fans to be mostly far into the right and far down into the libertarian.

Regarding empire builders vs defense-only that Temlakos talked about, I expect most empire builders are also authoritarian and most territorial defense-only. There certainly will be exceptions.

I also imagine (wonder if there's any data to support it) that most people fall below the horizontal axis. To get elected, though, it's effective to try to get people upset with their neighbors about religious and personal issues, which means the politicians have to be above the line.

Who says economic globalization is inevitable? First question, and it starts with a flawed premise. Bleah!

Then the more I went through this test, it gets worse... it starts from a pro-socialistic, pro-Leninist viewpoint and sets sail from there to the land of Marx.

I can't stand "tests" that are skewed to force you into a certain viewpoint, especially when it's against your moral fiber or sociological thinking. It reads like something put out by Soros Marketing and World Domination, llc. I admit, I didn't get to the 3rd page - after all, breakfast this morning was good, and I was at grave risk of losing it!

I am so libertarian I am one square past the greatest measure on the scale.

I have taken this test before. I have charted out somewhere between libertarian and conservative, depending on how they phrase some of the questions.

I've often felt one should add another axis to that: the militarism axis. Scores: from zero (pure aggressive, the Empire Builder's place) to 10 (immediate territorial defense only). I wonder how many of us would score in such a "cube"?

Left/Right: +4.25
Libertarian/authoritarian -5.33

I hit L/R of 3.25 and SL/A of -1.64, so that put me in the lower right but sort of towards the middle. Not really close to anyone that matters according to the test makers. It was fun but really I already knew where I was and I already know that most politicians are nowhere near where I am. The closest to my ideal is Ted Cruz by my judgement and look at how he ridiculed by the establishment. So, I guess that gives me an idea of what the establishment thinks of my ideals.

Economic Left/Right: 8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.41
The only person I was at all close to was Milton Friedman.

Good hearing from you, plusaf.

I want to know how on earth they deem Obama far authoritarian/Right.

Authoritarian - for damn sure
Right? Seriously

Obama is so far left he would have to look over his right shoulder to bay at the moon.

I tried and bailed at the question:

"Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment."

Take note: They've placed Obama in the upper right-hand of the "Authoritarian/Right" quadrant - which essentially calls into question the entire test, or at minimum the people who presumably ran BO through the test on his assumed answers.

I ended up almost exactly where they put Friedman (Milton, not Marty, which latter I would expect to be a better match,) but... they think Obama is of the "Right"...!
:rolls eyes:

I must have failed this test... I was going for the perfect score of +10 on the collectivist/individualist scale and -10 for the relinquished-control/self-control scale, but my morality overrode the immorality of the quiz writers.
Final score: 5.38 individualist, -4.36 self-control.

An amusing, but skewed test. So many loaded questions and false choices for answers... Nonetheless, I still scored in the lower right quadrant just behind Milton Friedman... for what it is worth.

Fun Quiz... I added the results to my site at http://www.plusaf.com/aboutme/mypolitics... ...

and
Economic Left/Right: 6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00

I wasn't very surprised...

Pretty consistent, I'd say... though I don't like the way they seem to equate "Libertarian" with "Anarchist"...

Eco +5.62
Soc -3.54

It'd be interesting to plot our little group,

It'd be really interesting to see where AR or LP land.

(How far have I strayed?)

I took a similar test with frustrating questions a few years ago. I'm still a conservative libertarian, according to the test.

The test on theadvocates.org is better.

The site will let me print out the test, but I can't do it until later this evening. I'd like to examine the exact wording of some of those questions with you all, just for fun.

This is a decent test, as these little tests go. I agree with freedomforall and khalling that it's a _political_ compass not a _philosophical_ compass.

I scored 0.38 to the right on the left/right axis and -7.33 (far libertarian) on the authoritarian/libertarian axis.

I wonder what percentage of the population scores in the lower two quadrants. If you click on the 2012 election part, it claims that Romney and Obama were next to each other in the center of the authoritarian right quadrant. That rings basically true to me. That means we have many people in the bottom two quadrants, but no mainstream candidates for us. I would love to see a president or several Congressman in the libertarian zone. I would like to see them as president, but part of their program would be they're going to get into office and decrease the powers of the presidency, which is tough to sell.