Sorry, Midchuck, but I knew Jerry Pournelle back about the time he cobbled together that chart, and I know a bit about his thought processes back then. That was before he moved to California and became a well-known science-fiction writer. We used to run into each other a lot at the Blue Moon Tavern (a most famous watering-hole in Seattle's University District).

It's a bit better than the usual "Left-Right continuum," but not much. It doesn't have anywhere near enough possible coordinates to locate someone on the basis of their beliefs. Hardly reliable. You'd have to have something at least three-dimensional.

Don Firth