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To: logician2u
Why do a quiz? Why not just come out and say what the Austrians stand for? It's like that quiz a while back to see if you were Libertarian. It's very misleading, and apparently didn't work. The LP is still below the single digits.
43 posted on 11/11/2003 3:00:48 PM PST by Moonman62
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To: Moonman62
Now, *that* is an amusing post. :)
48 posted on 11/11/2003 3:41:05 PM PST by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy.)
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To: Moonman62
Why not just come out and say what the Austrians stand for?

People who wish to know what the Austrians stand for have plenty of opportunities just by visiting the Ludwig von Mises Web site or a number of other places on the Web. They won't read it in the daily papers, though, or see it on Fox News.

The idea of a quiz, I believe, is to awaken the latent Austrian in some of us who were otherwise unaware of the Austrian School. (See Agnes Heep's reply, #30 above, as an example.)

Giving FReepers the quiz (at least the ones who are willing to spend the necessary 30 minutes or so and report their scores) lets us know, within a range, who are the believers in free-market capitalism, who think the government needs to regulate the economy, and (may G-d forbid!) who among us are died-in-the-wool socialists.

The quiz also is a learning tool, I think, for those whose education ended with high school.

It in no way resembles that other quiz you refer to, which is political in nature. Did you see anything about politics in the "Are you an Austrian" quiz?

I am sorry you have a negative attitude, but that is a problem for you to address, not for me.

60 posted on 11/11/2003 7:48:40 PM PST by logician2u
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