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Political Compass Test.....Cool!

#141
I thought that nearly every question suffered from the fallacy of "the excluded middle" where I'm asked to choose either black or white when my real preference is a particular shade of red or some other color. These questions are so simplistic as to be meaningless and I ended up answering "disagree" to nearly every question since that seemed to be the least wrong answer for me.

I'm not surprised that I came out almost exactly dead center, which is what I suspect the designers of this quiz want most people to do. This resembles a subtle recruitment tool for a libertarian group.
 
#143
hbarcat said:
I thought that nearly every question suffered from the fallacy of "the excluded middle" where I'm asked to choose either black or white when my real preference is a particular shade of red or some other color. These questions are so simplistic as to be meaningless and I ended up answering "disagree" to nearly every question since that seemed to be the least wrong answer for me.
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Actually, simplistic, "black-white" questions is a very purposeful, deliberate, key part of the process. The idea is for the respondent to answer quickly, from the gut - rather than take time to give a nuanced, conditional reply - which is what most people would do in the real world.

This is different. If the questions are phrased precisely, with a suitably limited, carefully-controlled set of possible answers, then listed in correct sequence, a pattern soon becomes perceptible that should provide real insight into one's true political values. :hmm:

MM
 
#145
The Burks results, I have a feeling my libertarianism mitigated my "right wing" social issue beliefs. In other words just because I may believe something is morally wrong, doesn't mean I believe the government needs to regulate it.
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#146
burk48237 said:
The Burks results, I have a feeling my libertarianism mitigated my "right wing" social issue beliefs. In other words just because I may believe something is morally wrong, doesn't mean I believe the government needs to regulate it.
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That's scary. Mine was nearly identical to yours...just a shade to the right of you on the x-axis. Considering my voting record, I guess I've been voting with my wallet all these years.
 
#150
I've seen some of these tests come and go. Some better then others, some downright horribly dishonest. But one thing I notice is that in most of them is that a lot of people such as myself tend to lean towards libitarian ideals. I personally didn't need a test to inform me that about myself. But my question is, if so many people tend to think this way then are are we rarely seeing politicians campaign with such idea's much less seeing any of them have much success with them. Infact the notion of such idea's is not even argued, it is simply ignored.


Oh well, this test gave me this which seems pretty dead on to to my point of view.. Even if many of the things that are really important to me that could sway it one way or another weren't mentioned.
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