Are you liberal or conservative?

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Take this political quiz. As with all such quizzes, the accuracy of the outcome can and ought to be questioned, but it's still amusing. Given your answers, you'll be rated on a 0-40 scale (0 being 100% liberal and 40 being 100% conservative).

My score: 13. Which puts me right between Hillary Clinton at 10 and Bill Clinton at 15. Which may or may not be accurate. I consider myself a liberal, but I suppose my progressive tendencies are counter-balanced by classical liberal inclination that border on libertarianism and that could be perceived as conservatism according to current definitions.

By the way, Andrew Sullivan scored a 26, Glenn Reynolds a 21, and Jeralyn Merritt an 8.

But so what?

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A much better test can be found at The Political Compass.

My scores:

Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

Which puts me in the middle of the lower left quadrant, the libertarian left, near Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, and the British and New Zealand Greens.

Of course, these are just my answers today. My scores would change according to slight variations in my answers, and on some questions I was indeed unsure of my answer.

Still, it seems about right to me.