A while back, I took a little political/personality test from okcupid, which is the company that generates thousands of tests for folks to stick on their myspace pages. It's a cute little test, but the fact that it's put out by okcupid makes me question the depth of analysis that they're going to produce.

I dug around on google and came found the political compass, a site that provides quite a bit of in-depth information on the multi-axis field of political dynamics.

The test doesn't give you a label (democrat / republican / liberal / anarchist / etc.) like okcupid's does. It gives you a cartesian graph and plots you somewhere on it, and then gives you the actual numbers associated with the plot. According to the test, I lean -3.50 points to economic left, and -2.62 points south towards social libertarianism, which makes me politically similar to Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.



If you get a chance, take the political compass test and post your results, preferably in this format:

Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.62

UPDATE: I'm adding points on the image for anybody that posts their results in the comments. If it gets too cluttered, maybe I'll just asign numbers to people and make a key on the right of the image that explains what what number belongs to what person.