Chris Lightfoot has a political survey that is much better than the Political Compass survey because:

1. There aren't as many horribly ambiguous questions.
2. The methodology is open so we can see how your answers get converted to a score.
3. Rather than start with preconceived left/right authoritarian/libertarian axes, he has used principal component analysis to find a two-dimensional political space. The first dimension seems to correspond to the conventional left/right axis. The second dimension is less well defined. Lightfoot calls it pragmatic/idealistic, but you should not get too hung up on the name---the important thing is that someone is the same location in the 2D space as you will tend to answer all the questions the same way.
4. You get a results page that lets you show anyone exactly how you answered the questions.

Ken Parish, bored, is asking bloggers to post their scores on the political compass survey. I already have a page where bloggers can do this, but it is a bit unwieldy with 500+ entries. So I thought it would be interesting to do one just for Australian bloggers.

Lots of folks have reported their results on the Political Compass. Now Chris Lightfoot has come up with a better political survey. I think it is much better than the Political Compass survey because:

1. There aren't as many horribly ambiguous questions.
2. The methodology is open so we can see how your answers get converted to a score.
3. Rather than start with preconceived left/right authoritarian/libertarian axes, he has used principal component analysis to find a two-dimensional political space. The first dimension seems to correspond to the conventional left/right axis. The second dimension is less well defined. Lightfoot calls it pragmatic/idealistic, but you should not get too hung up on the name---the important thing is that someone is the same location in the 2D space as you will tend to answer all the questions the same way.
4. You get a results page that lets you show anyone exactly how you answered the questions.

There has been flurry of bloggers posting their results on the Political Compass Test. This test attempts to measure your political leanings on a two-dimensional scale, with a left/right axis and a libertarian/authoritarian axis. Lawrence Solum has collected some of the results here.

This has inspired me to reorganize the results into a table so you can see at a glance where everyone is, add links to all the blogs, and add a form so others can easily add themselves.