^ I'm exactly in the middle of the green box but I can't figure out exactly why, could really use a break down, I have always and I still feel I should be up on the line closer to the center, a notch or two left, I would live to be able to find out what has changed. 

I've drifted more left too and Libertarian yet perhaps it's not us and they have changed the questions...maybe? 

I thought you were right wing too but perhaps that's just cause you post threads that the media won't handle and it seems that way. We're almost exactly on the same page according to this test. 

I've generally thought some of the questions were problematic. 

If you believe government shouldn't exist, how do you answer a question like "if a government exists, should it help its people?". 

Even on a personal level, you could take it in different ways "well if a government exists anyways, it should do good things"

"Well if a government exists anyways, it should be as small (and unhelpful as possible)" 

I'd say you're pretty close to being the average of people across the world if they were polled and aggregated. 

I see the "Political Compass" is making its usual rounds in the forums. It seems to make periodic appearances in the forums. I've never put much stock in it. "Crock of horseshit" comes to mind when I think of the Political Compass. It's very poor at nuance, and some of its quesitons border on political strawman positions.

I personally like the political compass, because it's more expressive than left/right.  

But I think it's a crazy stretch in general to think that we can weigh all political stances and plot people on a simple 1D/2D chart. 

It is, but that isn't saying much. Some of the questions are ridiculous on both ends of the spectrum. There should also be a "neutral/don't care" option on them, at least.

Maybe it's intentional to make more people fall into the center or close to it, because people tend to like it when they can claim that they are reasonable.

It's just a stupid internet quiz. They all are. This one is just older than most others and more classic.

All internet quizzes on this subject are flawed by definition because there's really no such thing as a strictly objective gauge of what constitutes being "right wing" or "left wing" or whatever, and yes, they are all biased. This one, for example, is pretty clearly designed to land as many people as possible in the bottom-left quadrant by making liberal and socialistic positions sound as reasonable as possible in just about every possible area. There are a lot of questions I can think of that the average person might actually phrase differently.

Also, when one looks over how they place various politicians over the years in various elections, you will notice a comically dishonest pattern of nearly all of them being placed in the opposite quadrant (the upper-right one), and very often near the top of it specifically. Consider, for example, their placement of the various candidates in our presidential election from last year here in the U.S. Notice how Kamala Harris and famed Bernie Sanders ally Tim Walz are both amusingly located in the authoritarian right quadrant (in fairly advanced positions therein in fact) while Cornel West's call for a $25/hour minimum wage and countless other similarly exaggerated variations on the Bernie Sanders economic program are barely sufficient to land him on the left-of-center at all; his calls to dismantle the FBI, the CIA, NATO and ICE and to also slash funding for both police departments and the armed forces and abolish prisons altogether, phase out nuclear power, repeal the Patriot Act and legalize all drugs barely sufficient to land him in the "libertarian" half of the social spectrum. Does this strike you as intellectually honest? If it does, consider the fact that curl-6 somehow landed left of Cornel West and also in a near-identically permissive place. Does that strike you as correct? Was Cornel West the curl-6 candidate of choice last year? Are you starting to see the mind game at work here now? There is a definite agenda there.

Other quizzes have other biases. There are those I've found in the past, conversely, that make it sound preposterous to oppose allowing business corporations to form monopolies or to insist upon breathable air and the phrasing chosen tends to skew the results that people get in the desired ideological direction, be it in the general direction of the anarchist left (in this case), of the business-oriented libertarian, or what have you. What's more, the Political Compass Test FEELS dated at this point. Being a product of its time, it doesn't feature any questions on subject like gender identity, guns, or other subjects that have become widely discussed in American polity in the last decade or so (although it has been updated once to add a single question about the merits of the degrowth movement).

But you know, sometimes you just have to come back to the simple fact that these are just dumb internet quizzes with agendas behind them that don't actually mean much of anything in reality, accept them for what they are, and choose to have fun with them. I certainly don't consider my results strictly accurate. My favorite one to date avoids the pseudo-science of graphing locations altogether and instead goes for value classifications by issue set. People's results on that one are always especially unique and interesting to me.