I also participate in another forum http://bikeforums.net and there is a very interesting thread about the members’ political orientation in two axes: economic left/right and libertarian/authoritarian (detailed explanation here).

Positive numbers indicate right in economics and authoritarian in freedom, while negative numbers show that you lean to the left in economics and tend to be a libertarian. You can take the test.

My scores:
Slightly left: -2.75 and quite a bit libertarian: -6.87.

Fascinating!  :)

My scores: -3.88 (left/right) and -3.74 (auth./liber.)

Yeah, I ended up with moderately negative scores for both. hey, it’s Gandhi’s quadrant!  ;D

So do international intellectual fora tend to attract libertarian socialists? Or just this particular thread?

If you check the numbers for bikeforums, by comparison with some of those guys we are a bunch of conservatives! However, language is so much better here!

PS What would you expect from people that give up cars as main form of transportation?  ;)

I ended up with -7.75 left/right and -7.69 authoritarian/libertarian.

Far out, Linnet!

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.62

Very close to Clare Short at one time or another (forgive me if I don’t know who she is).

I’m going to have to check out the bike forum.  I’m on the list server for a couple of local clubs, but this looks very interesting.  Thanks, uncronopio!

ecl/r  -3.25
au/lib -2.41

not sure why I needed to know that. Just another stat.
happy being politically/morally/socially average. Sometimes you just have to know that you would never murder someone,you would  give an old person your bus seat and dont shop lift. Anything else to me is gravy.

:o

"If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging.
   —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar."

       Mark Twain, Following the Equator Chapter XLVI

[quote author=Stargzer link=board=omni;num=1043273227;start=0#8 date=01/29/03 at 17:11:54]"If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging.
   —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar."

       Mark Twain, Following the Equator Chapter XLVI

An excellent argument for gun control—just think what Shakespeare might have been moved to do to Mark Twain for paraphrasing him without attribution, in the event the former had had a 45. Magnum handy !...

Henri

I don’t know if Shakespeare would have been terribly angry, considering how much of his own material was partly borrowed.

~Silver

Wow!

I was left/right +2.00 and auth./liber. 0.00!

I thought I was more radical than that!

I didn’t like all the questions, I thought the choices were absurd!

Sitran

I got to about the third question and gave up. None of them seemed to have the right answers.

DJ

I didn’t like all the questions, I thought the choices were absurd!
     
     Sitran

Posted by: demijohn
                                                   Posted on: Today at 9:01pm
     I got to about the third question and gave up. None of them seemed to have the right answers.

It looks like we agree on this one, DJ!

I do like the idea of the grid.  That makes sense to me!

Sitran

[quote author=demijohn link=board=omni;num=1043273227;start=0#13 date=07/30/03 at 21:01:07]None of them seemed to have the right answers.

That happens to me a lot, on a variety of "What kind of (whatever) are you?" quizzes. Frequently what I would prefer to answer isn’t one of the options.
~Silver
the non-conformist

Well, my score was:

L/R: 3.38
L/A: - 1.95

Which appears to make me a some kind of right-wing anarchist. Maybe that’s why I like Texas so much.  :)

Somehow, I always seem to get wierd results on tests. Go figure.

- PW