Where do You score on the political compass?

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I pulled responses from Here that were after the beginning of 2010 because political views tend to change over time. Correction there were 65 users on the previous group plot.
Now if only there was a way to make the graph bigger.
73 Users
As can be seen the downtown green area is becoming extremely crowded!

Economic Left/Right: 2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31

I'm not near anyone famous.

I'm not surprised. We're a forum of people who for the most part want individual liberties, but also depend on a social safety net to survive. Some people call this being a fence-sitter, I simply call it left-libertarianism.

In the United States "Libertarian" has a different meaning however and means more economic freedom with less government intervention which is to the right in the purple area. While generally socially liberal they usually support a strong Second Amendment and are not interventionist with foreign policy. The green area is for more government control of fiscal issues. So in a sense green is kind of like libertarianism with more economic government involvement.

Hence, the term left-libertarianism as opposed to normal libertarianism. I guess I could also describe it as being socially libertarian, but fiscally socialist.

Socialist, that's the word I was looking for but there are different subcategories of socialism.
The placement of politicians on the international chart is rather silly and impossible to believe considering the leaders mentioned live in areas that are very different politically. I find it hard to believe many of these leaders are really that far in the blue considering Obama, and some of those in Europe are definitely socially liberal and thus cannot be anywhere near there. Mitt Romney should be more in the center because he was everywhere on his positions to make one's head spin!
I have experimented with this test pretending I was different on things. There is no way those politicians can all be in the blue area!

Last edited by AntDog on 06 Feb 2015, 12:16 am, edited 1 time in total.

I bet there aren't very many politicians in the green.

I am sure if leaders were presented this test many in northwestern Europe would end up in the green, Middle East could be near Hitler at the upper red/blue boundary, Communist areas would be in red, Obama would be around red/green boundary towards center.
Perhaps someone could ask their countries leader to take the test... and no I am not going anywhere near Obama just to tell him to take an online test!

They have redone the site appearance (same questions though) and now all links to group plots don't work anymore because they changed the link format.

Wrong Planet's grouped results page reborn
I have reentered all results from this thread into it because the older group plot links don't work anymore.
Due to the removal of the checkbox to remove erroneous entries I will be submitting this in steps in subsequent posts (currently 35 users). Or I have to deal with spending 10 minutes correcting each error.
At least now the results can be more accurate in the hundredths.

Results added back from GGPViper's additions earlier in the thread
59 Users

71 users From here and a few isolated places.

78 Users from here
Now there is one more thread, it has 9 pages which is why I am doing a "checkpoint" at 78 users. Hopefully I can get to a 100 users!

Economic Left/Right: -6.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

Including results from here
There are now

106 USERS ON THE WRONG PLANET POLITICAL COMPASS ATLAS!! !
After a few hours of work.
Here is the 2015 Edition of the Wrong Planet Political Compass Atlas!! !

I have a feeling Stephen Harper would be somewhere in the blue. I hope Justin Trudeau replaces him in the next election, though with the way the Canadian parliamentary system works, we're probably going to have a fair number of Conservative seats in the House of Commons regardless. The only good things the Conservatives can do at this point are kick ISIS' ass, and get Keystone XL going so we can revitalize our economy. I may generally be on the left, but I'm not a rabid tree-hugger.