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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

If this quiz is delibrately biased than why do so many people not score libertarian?

True, it was created by libertarians, but it is in their best intrest to keep it accurate, otherwise people wouldn't spread it. And this is one of their main tools for finiding people with similar views as the traditional left/right model kind of leaves them out. They really don't want a bunch of liberals or republicans thinking they are libertarians and vica-versa.

Read the FAQ

Tristin Lal: This isn't a tool to get people to "identify with" libertarians, this is a tool to make people aware of libertarians. You can disagree with them completely, what they want is for people to at least be aware of what they stand for.

There is a very good reason why, in addition to the Y/N, there is a "maybe" answer. If you have doubts of any kind of a statement, not an outright dismissal, but doubts, you supposed to answer "maybe". You are not required to have an absolute opinion on anything. If you don't have very strong opions of beliefs about anything, answering maybe on every question, it should accurately place you in the dead center as a Centrist.

And as far as bias goes, yeah there is some subtle bias, but only in the view of "who is best", but not in "what your political philosophy is like", the quiz itself is pretty accurate. Though they do make it seem like "you are only 50% on the road to self-enlightenment on the all-knowing plane of Libertarianism", which isn't very nice.

As far as practicality is concerned, well... If you take any of the extreme of extremes, whether it be conservative, liberal, libertarin, or statist, you end up with crazy stuff that really isn't practical. Charicterizing any political philosophy by it's most extreme and pure form is useful for discussion, but very unfair to use as a reason for dismissal ('these views are too extreme to be practical').

Personally, I don't think that libertarians will ever come to any major of seat of power, simply because their ideas are so radical, and they will royaly tick off those people that don't share those ideas.



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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

I got Centrist...which sounds about right.

Most political things like this will be biased, no matter what. Because humans cannot truly be non-opinionated third parties. Unfortuntetly, us humans seem to have an opinion about everything, and it comes out in what we say and do, so I don't think you can really find one of these things that is truly unbiased.
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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

Huzzah,
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 10%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 50%.
That puts me into the Conservative Statist.
I landed perfectly on the line.
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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

I landed Centrist with a slight pust towards Libertarian and Right Conservative. I was right on the corner or Centrist. With a 50/80 score. I didn't understand many of the questions.
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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)



Uh yeah, just slightly bordering 3 different schools of thought.

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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

CONSERVATIVE




Your PERSONAL issues Score is 40%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 90%.
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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 10%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 70%.

Conservative, 'nuff said, not a surprise here or anything.
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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

LIBERTARIAN

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 60%.
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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

LIBERAL

No surprise there.

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 100%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 20%.

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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

60% personal, 60% economic. Centrist for me.
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Re: World's Shortest Political Quiz - (10 Y/N Qs)

CENTRISTS espouse a "middle ground" regarding government
control of the economy and personal behavior. Depending on
the issue, they sometimes favor government intervention
and sometimes support individual freedom of choice.
Centrists pride themselves on keeping an open mind,
tend to oppose "political extremes," and emphasize what
they describe as "practical" solutions to problems.

http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz-score/draw.php?p=6&e=5

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 60%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 50%.


I'm nice and comfortable with those results and love that description.
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