It’s been a little while since we’ve tried this
One of the hardest things is to determine your own political position because it is only natural to assume you are the mainstream/center and everyone else should be left or right of you.
There are a number of political surveys out there, and they too have some bias, but this one is pretty good at offering evaluation, and if anything it gives us an idea of how we stand compared to each other.
In this survey the higher the positive number the further to the right you are, the higher the negative number denotes how far you are to the left.
A note of caution, many of the questions on the survey are such that you could have a couple answers that fit your views and others don’t have any perfect match. In past occassions of taking the test I’ve ended up as high as 3 or 4 on the economic scale and as low as -1. On the Social scale I’ve ended up as high as 2 or 3 and as low as -2 or -3.
It all depends on how you interpret certain questions (IE what does ‘regulating a company on the environment’. Does it mean reasonable rules or does it mean government takeover.
Try taking it and letting us know how you do.
Just to start the ball rolling.
Economic Left/Right: 0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.21
This is a pretty representative score for myself.