3/29 Take a political compass test. Also here's where those democratic
primary guys fell on their scale:
http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/usprimaries.html
Based on that scale, China does fall closest to fascism, since it's
authoritarian but economically going towards center-right.
\_ Check out the wording on those questions. Most impressive.
-- ilyas
\_ Well, they also have a FAQ. I think it placed me correctly
(slightly left and libertarian).
\_ "Why are you throwing tomatoes at yourself?" Let's look at
this gem of a 'proposition' as they call it:
"Many personal fortunes are made by people who simply
manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society."
Now, let's say I put in 'disagree.' How will they read this?
Will they read it as "I think many personal fortunes are NOT
made by people like that" ... OR "Manipulating money
contributes something (loans provide value)". The question
is so loaded and faulty that any possible response will likely
be incorrectly interpreted. Their test, btw, incorrectly
placed me as basically a moderate republican, which I am
certainly not. -- ilyas
\_ Right, well, I would hope that the intent of that question
would be a judge on economic left-rightedness, where
agreement implies that some control should be put on these
useless capitalists. Based on their rationale I don't think
it has to be flawed, but it obviously can't be perfect and
they likely have a bias anyway.
\_ Except this question does not judge any such thing.
I could be a card-carrying liberal and still believe
most personal fortunes are not made by manipulation
of money (in fact, I don't have handy statistics on
this matter). The question is stupid, as is the entire
test. You have to phrase things a lot more carefully
and 'wordily'. -- ilyas
\_ it didn't say "most" it said "many". Although many is
a relative term. Anyway though I agree, their agenda
appears to be to have right wingers take the test and
discover they're somehow actually lefties. But the
background stuff surrounding it seems sound. And the
bias they do have could be justified if it tests
discrepancies between what someone thinks they think
and what they actually think, if they haven't thought
about it much already. (notions of pol. correctness)
\_ See, you don't understand the nature of my
objection. A test like this only works when a
given response to a question actually
differentiates political views. I gave an example
where the same response could be given by both
a fiscal liberal and a fiscal conservative.
Anyways, it's late, and I am tired of explaining
the same thing three different ways. If you think
it's a good test, that's great. -- ilyas
\_ well you're basically quibbling with the word
"many" in that example. anyway, fine, motd
censor will clean this up before long, g'nite. |