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Re: (A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

Neodoxy — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:46:56 GMT

"I think it's a bit off as are most tests because they equate what you feel comfortable with personally with what you think is appropriate policy"

Very true. I forgot about that aspect of the test. It doesn't work that well for libertarians since we live in a society where people's politics are usually identical to making legal/illegal whatever they do or do not like.

Re: (A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

xahrx — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:43:08 GMT

"I'm partial to this test. It's a little biased in some senses (for instance it conflates pro free market with pro-corporate), but notheless it's the only political quiz I've seen that is not only political but ideological in nature, and therefore I think it does quite well.

Warning however, it's quite a long test."

Wasn't terribly long. I see the bias you mentioned, plus I think it's a bit off as are most tests because they equate what you feel comfortable with personally with what you think is appropriate policy. I generally tend to be conservative in my views but basically doctrinaire libertarian in my politics. Asking me my personal opinion on abortion therefore doesn't answer the policy question, it just just lets you know my personal view of the act. For a test like this to truly 'rate' people it would have to ask policy questions which are yes or no in nature, and more open ended multiple choice questions about the actual feelings the person nay have about this or that particular act.

Re: (A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

John James — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:05:29 GMT

Charles Anthony:
I was really disappointed. The last thing I expected from My Results was to be compared to a bunch of electoral candidates. Like, who cares?? They are all the same to me.

What a let down.

You were hoping to be labeled, maybe?

Re: (A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

Charles Anthony — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:46:13 GMT

I was really disappointed. The last thing I expected from My Results was to be compared to a bunch of electoral candidates. Like, who cares?? They are all the same to me.

What a let down.

Re: (A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

No2statism — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:05:37 GMT

I was 100% Ron Paul before they took him down. I was like ~95% Gary Johnson.

Re: (A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

Neodoxy — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:22:52 GMT

I'm partial to this test. It's a little biased in some senses (for instance it conflates pro free market with pro-corporate), but notheless it's the only political quiz I've seen that is not only political but ideological in nature, and therefore I think it does quite well.

Warning however, it's quite a long test.

Re: (A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

John James — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:12:52 GMT

Bogart:
Except for the whole thing about missing Ron Paul as one of the candidates.

Right because Ron Paul was totally running for President on election day.

Re: (A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

fountainhead — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:17:27 GMT

Yeah, that was a very good quiz around election time. Sent it to my friends and family. I'm glad that some of them found out they were closer to third-party candidates like Gary Johnson and Jill Stein than to Obamney. Hopefully that'll at least make them stop and think about the "3x5 card of approved opinion" we have today. Also, would have been nice to take the quiz during the primaries when I think there were more choices.

Re: (A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

Bogart — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:09:09 GMT

Except for the whole thing about missing Ron Paul as one of the candidates. And I had to put a new response on a range of issues mostly concerning immigration where I am more concerned about ending the welfare state than using immigrants as scapegoats for bad social policies.

I was impressed that they had more responses some of which elimited the stupid Demuplican-Republicrat responses.

(A little late, but) The Fairest Political Quiz I've Ever Seen

John James — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:49:46 GMT

http://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz