World's Smallest Political Quiz

[Michael Hardner]

from The Advocates.org

My score:

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 60%

Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 30%

[Borg]

from The Advocates.org

My score:

I'll bite:

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 60%

Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 100%

Libertarian

Borg

Edited July 11, 2010 by Borg

[Michael Hardner]

Right - I was on the line between centrist and statist. The compass poll put me as liberal/libertarian or somesuch.

[dre]

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 100%

Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 30%

Theres something a bit wrong there...

The answers I chose would reflect the way things have worked in almost every successful democracy in history (with the exception of ending drug prohibition). Yet it put me way on the left end of the scale.

Im wondering how the center is determined.

[Borg]

Ah yes, there MUST be a way to determine why you do not score as you would LIKE.

Study harder and you may even be able to rationalize to the point you can explain away anything

It seems a very typical canucklehead response

Borg

[TimG]

The answers I chose would reflect the way things have worked in almost every successful democracy in history (with the exception of ending drug prohibition). Yet it put me way on the left end of the scale.

The test is biased against libertarian view by asking people to agree with the most extreme libertarian positions. The results would have been reversed if they had reversed the questions (i.e. ask if you would like to double government spending instead of asking if you would like to cut it in half). Edited July 11, 2010 by TimG

[bloodyminded]

It would seem I'm sort of liberal/leftist. I was astonished.

[bloodyminded]

The test is biased against libertarian view by asking to agree with to most extreme libertarian positions. The results would have been reversed if they had reversed the questions (i.e. ask if you would like to double government spending instead of asking if you would like to cut it in half).

Exactly. The questions are skewed, if by no more than the brevity of the test itself.

Underwhelming, but I still consider it superior to the other test.

[Guest American Woman]

My results:

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 60%

Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 20%

According to your answers, the political group that agrees with you most is...Liberal.

Liberals usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend to support significant government control of the economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net" to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation of business. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations, defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles.

I don't find my results surprising, but for such a short quiz, I have to wonder how many people would feel as if their results are accurate.

As for their description of liberals, the only thing I question is the "support significant government control of the economy."

[Michael Hardner]

Still - it has to be better than the compass poll, which asks if you believe in astrology, presumably, to determine if you are Republican.

[Jack Weber]

Personal 50%

Economic 30%

Centrist...I always knew I was...

If the Righties call me a "Socialist" and the Lefties call me a "neo-con"(some call me a neo-con asshole...I might be an asshole.I'm definately NOT a neo-con!!! )Then I'm right in the middle pissing off the extremes...

Perfect!

[eyeball]

100 Personal / 40 Economic. Just about as far as you can get from both Big Statists and Right wing Conservatives. Figures.

[Bonam]

70% personal, 90% economic

[M.Dancer]

Said I was practically perfect in every way

[Jack Weber]

Said I was practically perfect in every way

Describe the perfection please???

[ToadBrother]

70% personal, 90% economic

I once had a girlfriend that got mad at me because she made me take some stupid quiz in one of her womens' magazines that determined that I was at high risk for cheating on her. I lump these idiotic online political quizzes on the same level.

[Jack Weber]

I once had a girlfriend that got mad at me because she made me take some stupid quiz in one of her womens' magazines that determined that I was at high risk for cheating on her. I lump these idiotic online political quizzes on the same level.

So did ya' mess around on her????

[ToadBrother]

So did ya' mess around on her????

No, I ended up dumping her. She was a little nuts, as the magazine episode demonstrated.

[Jack Weber]

No, I ended up dumping her. She was a little nuts, as the magazine episode demonstrated.

Nuts is tolerable for a short period of time...

[Bonam]

I once had a girlfriend that got mad at me because she made me take some stupid quiz in one of her womens' magazines that determined that I was at high risk for cheating on her. I lump these idiotic online political quizzes on the same level.

Yeah lol those are stupid.

[Moonlight Graham]

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 70%

Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 30%

Liberal:

Liberals usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend to support significant government control of the economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net" to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation of business. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations, defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles.

Pretty much bang-on i guess.

[Borg]

No, I ended up dumping her. She was a little nuts, as the magazine episode demonstrated.

Nah!

You dumped her because you wanted to mess around and she had you by the short and curlies!

LOL

Borg

[Pliny]

Personal = 100%

Economic = 100%

But you all knew that.

I tried telling bloodyminded that he was left-wing.

Canadian leftwingers normally do think they are centrists.

American Woman is a left wing liberal and knows it. But has a confusion about economic control. Healthcare and social security, unemployment insurance all demand some government control over the economy in order for them to collect the money to pay for them. The more social programs like that, the more control is exerted over the economy.

[Yesterday]

Personal 70%

Economic 40%

Centrist..mmm.

Maybe....I do have a hard time identifying myself with either left or right so perhaps centrist would work. I prefer the moderationist, I think. I wish these fence posts would stop digging up my a**...butt.

Edited August 16, 2010 by Yesterday

[bloodyminded]

Personal = 100%

Economic = 100%

But you all knew that.

I tried telling bloodyminded that he was left-wing.

Canadian leftwingers normally do think they are centrists.

???

I know full well that in most issues (though not all) I fall under the category of what is commonly described as "left wing."

And complexities and labelling issues aside, I'm comfortable with that; I am openly "a man of the left."

So it's not as if I ever disputed the assessment.

The only disputation I recall between us on this issue was your notion that since I'm left wing, I can't recognize that we have a "left-wing media."

I disagree with the premise, of course, under the institutional analyses of news media that I have cited multiple times; but more importantly here, this is entirely a separate matter from your odd claim that you "tried telling bloodyminded" what I already know and have never disputed.

Edited August 18, 2010 by bloodyminded