Hey I have a great idea let's all take a test so we can preemptively rate each other dumb!
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I wouldn't normally associate myself with these words so feel free to post multiple tests.
hezzy says this type of thread is ok
Would be nice to have easy links to the sites.
PolitiScales
8values
And nobody was surprised.
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Well fuck me, it's almost as if progressives ans socialists the have upper hand in elections if only their neoliberal counterparts would get out of the way
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No one can argue with me
This politiscale thing is pretty awful.
Many of the questions take on very different means whether you interpret them as asking "what society should be like" or "what society currently is like". There's a lot of ambiguity here. For example a question asked (to the effect) that the social differences between men and women is partially because of biology. While I believe that is currently true, I don't think it's something that should be the case. Another question asked "biologically, human beings are designed for heterosexuality", which, while true, I think should have zero bearing on the discussion. It's an appeal to nature fallacy.
A well designed survey would be worded to avoid such biases and ambiguities.
Yeah honestly I just picked the first thing on Google when I searched "political quiz" that wasn't that political compass thing that's been memed to death. I noticed the bias as well which is why I also took the 8values quiz. I do like poltiscale's end result presentation more though.
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Revised with a few more strongly agrees and disagrees. Would probably be a centrist in Europe.
I'd say that just about got it. The blank space is actually pretty telling.
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Questions on politiscales were kinda weird as people said.
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I think it's interesting it marks me a libertarian. I idealise libertarianism, but I also recognise it's not very realistic which is why I support things like universal healthcare and public ownership of natural monopolies like roads and power lines.
That flag has some real attention-getting power.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and making a political compass quiz where three quarters of the questions aren't thrown out by the respondent.
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I think all of these fail to take into account many nuances... "it's not my business" isn't really a "progressive" viewpoint, it just means... it doesn't hurt anyone so I think it should be legal, whether I approve of it on an individual level or not.
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Not only am I a neo-lib
I am also a nazi
incredible
People aren't super liable to ask us questions though; our positions aren't particularly exceptional or anomalous so far as I see.
i only took the 8values one
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pretty much what i thought.
I'm not sure if I completely agree with the PolitiScales one
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