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To: austingirl
I answered honestly and weighted my answers- what is the point of manipulating to get Trump on top?

I answered everything as "far right" as I could, *except* a "neutral" on legalizing marijuana. It gave me Cruz 91%, Gilmore 89% (I think), Bush 88% and Trump down in 60s or 70s.

A couple of observations:

1) It's a Fox News site. They're not known as particularly friendly to Trump. 2) We don't know the secret sauce of their algorithm. They may have (for example) weighted Trump as moderately or heavily pro-choice on the basis of past remarks; or labeled him as a lib on health care due to his "I don't want anyone dying in the streets" comments. 3) It might be that it is not the individual answer to a question uniquely marks you, but *combinations* of answers; that is, they may have several internal scorecards, where a certain question contributes to several scorecards simultaneously, and sometimes in different directions.

What would be informative would be to have someone who posted "all far right" give their answers -- to avoid copyright infringements just say "the question on illegal immigrants" or "question 7" along with the results. Then have someone who is shown as best agreeing with Trump, do the same.

590 posted on 02/20/2016 12:46:46 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
I took the survey more for entertainment and to see if it confirmed my responses as being very conservative and they did. FReepers are entitled to do with it as they wish.

Can't wait for the results tonight - I think it may be a close three way result- although I do hope Marco is a distant third.

617 posted on 02/20/2016 1:03:02 PM PST by austingirl (AS)
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