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Online Political Tests – Can’t find a good one

By Erik Zimerman On January 4, 2012 · Add Comment · In The Whiskey Room

So its all fun and games with these online political tests… until you take a close look. All I wanted is to spend a few simple minutes answering questions so that a cool graph can come up that tells me that the only thing Right of me is the wall… and that compared to me, Pinochet and Milton Friedman seem to advocate marxism. But instead, these tests seem to be written with such ninifyingly academic leftistness that they are impossible to answer truthfully (lest I answer all the “leftist” answers). Basically, freedom is so devoid from these people’s heads that they cannot even imagine it, much less write questions looking for it. Basically, they check for a “cartoon” version of conservatism or right wing, due to their biases, and though I know the answer they are “looking for” to indicate right or left, they are most often quite wrong. This language problem actually has further huge implications, and here are some real examples from these tests: (We are assuming American politics here of course) Almost every question is like this: Most of these lets assume ask you to answer something from “Strongly agree to strongly [...]

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