Like others I had a lot of problems with some of these questions, the worst offender probably being 'We should reduce our living standards massively to protect the environment.' - This one question appears to cover a massive area of environmentalism and allows no kind of nuance, only offering one solution, and only offering it in 'massive' amounts or none at all. It's a very weighted question.

The best question, or at least the one I had to think about the most was 'A nation should potentially be allowed to use military means to secure access to natural resources.' - For me it conjures up a lot of baggage I had to drop to look at it objectively.

Here's my result anyway, only thing that differs a little from the average here is the lack of pacifism - I guess I'm a more of a realist than some of you lot

YoumanBean wrote:
Here's my result anyway, only thing that differs a little from the average here is the lack of pacifism - I guess I'm a more of a realist than some of you lot

That's another thing...do you take the test looking at the world around you with rose coloured glasses, do you act with a mind to the harsh realities of the world, do you objectively fill it out no matter the result and what it says about you, or do you go for "conservative" answers that try to limit the bad score?

These sorts of thing are fun, but should in no way be taken as an absolute measure of anyones personal, political, or cultural views...

Well yes. I answered all of mine as my political ideology. Of course even as a Libertarian I realize a lot of my ideology fails when being applied.

Like others said the questions were kind of weird. It says 41% of people are more extremist than me which I highly doubt. I'm more of a communist than the test implies.

Make a new one.

We are building an online test, we are making it bigger. We are widening the options and taking into account the non-linear spectrum of political ideas in contrast to the traditional and insufficient Left/Right.

I'm willing to bet we all pretty much answered questions pertaining to religion the same way. Yet there are significant differences in score. In each religion-related question, I took a strongly anti-religion stance, and should have scored 100% in terms of secularism. I didn't, and don't understand why.

You are a social democratic patriot. 3 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 77 percent are more extremist than you.

WTF is a social democratic patriot. Sounds like a missile.

Did the short version.

What the hell is a "cosmopolitan Social Democrat" when it's at home?

xtraordinaryevidence wrote:After doing the test and reading everyone else's experiences, I have to say that this is one of the worst online tests I've done. It comes close to OkCupid bad, and that's saying something.

That's not my experience at all. My results are accurate insofar as it fingered me as masively secular, anti-authoritarian, anti-reactionary, economically centrist and internationalist. Some people have complained about their results, but I've had a chuckle to myself as it's generally concurred with how I view those people.

Strontium Dog wrote:Some people have complained about their results, but I've had a chuckle to myself as it's generally concurred with how I view those people.

Do my results bear any resemblance to your opinions on me?

I have to say that I agree with mine because I'm all on the left, I'm not nationalistic, in fact I'm a one-worldist

I'm not religious but it's only got me at 49% secular because I'm big on freedom of religious so I couldn't agree or disagree with giving extra rights or taking rights away from the religious

I truly am a pacifist and an ecologist...

I couldn't agree to animal testing and do agree with equal rights for animals insofar as freedom from oppression and abuse... I don't even like putting my cat out in the cold

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YoumanBean wrote:Like others I had a lot of problems with some of these questions, the worst offender probably being 'We should reduce our living standards massively to protect the environment.' - This one question appears to cover a massive area of environmentalism and allows no kind of nuance, only offering one solution, and only offering it in 'massive' amounts or none at all. It's a very weighted question.

Yes, but that might be useful in identifying people at the extremes of a spectrum. You're not going to be able to evaluate whether people fit that criteria by just asking nice, MOR questions.

If you put yourself as neutral for every question it concludes, rather bizarrely, that you're a bourgeois patriot. 99% of people are more extreme than you, which if you think about it makes you a kind of extremist.

To those wondering why they didn't score 100% for secularism, I bet you'd have to set the relevant questions to "weighted" in order to do that.

Strontium Dog wrote:

xtraordinaryevidence wrote:After doing the test and reading everyone else's experiences, I have to say that this is one of the worst online tests I've done. It comes close to OkCupid bad, and that's saying something.

That's not my experience at all. My results are accurate insofar as it fingered me as masively secular, anti-authoritarian, anti-reactionary, economically centrist and internationalist. Some people have complained about their results, but I've had a chuckle to myself as it's generally concurred with how I view those people.

Yeah they're more or less accurate. Aside from the ecological questions.