Posted on 12/07/2001 1:17:53 AM PST by The Raven
I didn't like some of the phrasing of the questions...sometimes I agreed with the question, but not for the reasons they proffered. In those cases I put disagree. Not sure if the calculations factor in the reason they put forth or not. As in "A one-party state is better because it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.". I disagreed with the part after 'because', but if that part wasn't there, I might not have disagreed.
Did you think I was kidding when I said that Rush Limbaugh is a communist? ;>)
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -2.10
Lots of those questions were f-ed up I thought. I don't know what my score means really, but I wasn't very libertarian according to the chart. I mean on the libertarian side.
See I think it's because of questions like should gays be able to adopt kids? No they should not. It's not libertarian to be opposed to gay people adopting kids?
What this test and others like it mean (read: are designed to do) is that most of us are closer to being Libertarians than anything else and should therefore join the Libertarian party and give them money.
Most of the questions asked for simple answers to complex questions (For example: What time will the sun rise tomorrow? Yes or No) and thus carry little weight in the answer as two people could answer the same on a question, but have entirely different reasons for doing so. (Will the sun rise tomorrow? One person answers no because it will be raining, and another answers no because it will be snowing and another answers no because he lives in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.)
OTOH, this is the third test like this I have seen and taken and I always come out in the same position....Attilla the Hun was a pinko, commie liberal.
I felt dirty after takeing it.
The very first question was so stupid that I never answered a question after reading it. I read about half the rest and hit the back button. A true waste of time.
This was the most idiotic and manipulative thing I've ever seen.
My scores:
Economic Left/Right: 2.25
Authoritarian/Libertarian: 0.62
I knew I am a reasonable, practical guy!
IT WOULD APPEAR that the NWO globalists are behind the survey. Does that mean they then file it all away and add it to our hard disk file? Ah well. Though should know plenty about me already.
Authoritarian/Libertarian: 1.49
Interesting test. Given the limits of questioning over the printed page, I also thought it was fairly accurate.
Anyone?
I must agree on the questions being misleading. Kind of like "So when did you stop beating your wife?". They carried too many assumptions (If globalism is inevitable...), and had too much black and white yes/no types of answers where "it depends" would have been appropriate. Is sex equal to sinning? From a religious standpoint, it still would depend on whether it involved marriage.
I also didn't like the fact that there was no neutral answer; one could only agree or disagree.
Still, I ended up right where I thought I should. A little right and a little libertarian.
Slightly Right Libertarian, although i think the questions are off some. There are many things I think are personally wrong, but the state shouldn't be involved in.
Authoritarian/ Libertarian: 3.33
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