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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Have you taken the worlds smallest political quiz? It’s at the bottom of the screen and I used to love that site but looking today at John McCain - he’s not right conservative and it says he is.

It did, however, peg me correctly.


138 posted on 12/22/2009 8:52:26 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: ozarkgirl
Have you taken the worlds smallest political quiz? It’s at the bottom of the screen and I used to love that site but looking today at John McCain - he’s not right conservative and it says he is.

The World's Smallest Political Quiz - yes, I've taken it before, though I noted that it seems engineered to give false positives for libertarianism (not surprising, since LP affiliates invented the quiz). I hate to say it, but I've yet to see a TRULY well-rounded political quiz in the WSPQ type (biaxial) format.

Probably the closest would be this one which seems to be a pretty accurate indicator. However, it, like the WSPQ, eschews asking questions about social issues like abortion, gay marriage, sex ed, etc. The reason for this is because, when you start asking people to answer questions about these types of issues, people start moving towards the "Conservative" corner and away from the "Libertarian" corner (same deal with WSPQ). Libertarians get around this by just not asking those questions. In place, they ask questions where the "conservative" answers are simply outlandish and not supported by most conservatives, like whether we should put people in prison for having oral sex, etc. That way, they can include a few "social issue" questions, and still get the libertarian-leaning responses they want (so that people will begin to self-identify as "libertarian" instead of "conservative").

154 posted on 12/22/2009 9:06:23 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives unite behind conservative Republicans in the primaries!)
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