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Wed 13 Nov, 2002 08:02 pm
Here is the quiz:
http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html
Depending on my mood I get centrist or Libertarian/Left-Liberal.
What did you get?
Links about one of the most famous political quizzes on the net (mostly critical):
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/rupright.html <- Attacks the quiz as propaganda
http://www.libertysoft.com/quiz/ <- Download the quiz (what for??)
I got centrist too. You think it's rigged?
I'm certain it's rigged. But slightly. One of the most intelligently rigged quizzes I've seen as it doesn't twist results outright.
Me- Libertarian- But I could have told you that before I took the quiz. I saw the other site. They are right. The quiz IS a bit biased by the way that it is written.
Been there, done that, fell in the dividing line between libertarian and left-liberal.
Sure it's propaganda, only the Libertarians really occupy the right half of their self-defined spectrum.
It may apply well in the US. Elsewhere, people would be overwhelmingly left-liberal.
I like that it's not square. Fidel Castro would have scored a perfect authoritarian, not an inch of a left-winger.
Probably to nobody's surprise, I'm a libertarian. I read the critique saying that the quiz is skewed, and repeated it using the critic's versions of the question. It didn't change my answers.
i'm a centrist with leftist leanings...
I am an Irish individual-anarchist, meaning the rest of you better straighten up and fly right--but i get to do what i please . . .
Shoot Setanta I almost read that as Irish individual antichrist...but then I am British...LOL
Mayhap a little of that, too, Boss . . . those of a religious turn of mind might see that in me . . .
I got Authoritarian! (on my second try
)
Seems kind of silly to me, especially on a libertaritan web-site.
Thomas wrote:Probably to nobody's surprise, I'm a libertarian. I read the critique saying that the quiz is skewed, and repeated it using the critic's versions of the question. It didn't change my answers.
But that shouldn't surprise you either. The critic's questions will most affect an authoritarian whose results were more libertarian than he/she really is.
If you really are a libertarian, a test skewed towards portraying you as a libertarian will not exhibit the bias to the same degree.
Your Personal Self-Government Score is 90%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 50%.
Oh my God! I'm a left-liberal! Oh, Reverend Dan is going to be sooooo angry with me....
No surprises for me:
Right Conservative
Your Personal Self-Government Score is 0%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 60%.
Left Liberal. Now there's a surprise!
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