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ddvmor


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I took the test linked at the bottom of this page and it turns out that I'm a borderline pinko liberal!

Basically theres a horizontal left wing/right wing scale of -10 to +10 plotted against a similar vertical scale for libertarian/authoritarian (you'll see it on the link below).

So I came out as:

Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.56

Here's a link to my graph.

Which puts me in the bottom left square, albeit hovering around the middle ground - left wing libertarian. Just.

I don't know how telling it is that I always seem to score very close to the fence on personality or political or... well, pretty much any test like this. For example, apparently I'm a borderline introvert according to Myers Briggs (ISTP, if I remember right). The bank sent me on an Insights personality evelauation last year which plotted you on a lovey color wheel... on which I was almost dead centre!

I choose to believe that it's because I'm a well balanced individual.

-- Edited by ddvmor on Friday 14th of August 2009 08:53:23 AM

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Once I realised that it was 6 pages I gave up on it. I thought some of the questions were weighted in their phrasing also - but that could have been the point -

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ddvmor


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That means that you aren't entitled to a political stance.

It's six short pages. And the weighting is almost certainly the point of it.

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I don't know how telling it is that I always seem to score very close to the fence on personality or political or... well, pretty much any test like this. For example, apparently I'm a borderline introvert according to Myers Briggs (ISTP, if I remember right).

I thought I remembered you as an ESTP.  I may be wrong.

 



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It's not just slanted, there's a 90 degree dropoff no matter which way you go...The first question: If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations. infers that economic globalization is inevitable, which of course it isn't, and the only two choices given leave out the efforts of the individual entrepeneur...

No point in going any further, but I did anyway:I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong. fails to consider whether tyrants control the country making revolution a necessity (hey, it's happened before)...It's not a test if you're forced into someone else's foregone conclusions...Ben

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ddvmor


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Susan wrote:

I thought I remembered you as an ESTP. I may be wrong.


Definitly an I...

Truckman wrote:

It's not just slanted, there's a 90 degree dropoff no matter which way you go...The first question: If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations. infers that economic globalization is inevitable, which of course it isn't, and the only two choices given leave out the efforts of the individual entrepeneur...


See I simply answered the question literally. Doesn't matter whether it's inevitable in the real world or not - that's not what it's asking. It's asking whether, if it was, it should be humanist or...er... corporation...ist...

Truckman wrote:

I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong. fails to consider whether tyrants control the country making revolution a necessity (hey, it's happened before)...It's not a test if you're forced into someone else's foregone conclusions...Ben


Or is the answer just 'Disagree'?

It's only a bit of fun, anyway. But your objections to it suggest to me that you're a closet commie!

Heh. Anyway, these questions are way less loaded than those posed by my company's quarterly 'Employee Engagement' survey which routinely uses cunning wording to force high scores so the bosses can sit back and polish their 'Investors In People' plaques...

-- Edited by ddvmor on Friday 14th of August 2009 09:24:17 PM

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But your objections to it suggest to me that you're a closet commie! wink.gif


Damn! Busted again...bawl...Ben

 



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Closet commie? He's only trying to make you think that as a cunning subterfuge. I'd say he's actually after personal, capatalist, global domination. Personally I don't know whether to be slightly worried, or if it's best to just apply for a job now, so I can get promoted when he takes over the world?

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sha76jam wrote:

Closet commie? He's only trying to make you think that as a cunning subterfuge. I'd say he's actually after personal, capatalist, global domination. Personally I don't know whether to be slightly worried, or if it's best to just apply for a job now, so I can get promoted when he takes over the world?


I do happen to be accepting applications for one position...Better hurry though, it's a limited-time offer...heart.gif...Ben

 



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ddvmor


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Um... is the position on top or underneath? I know how your mind works, Ben!

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Um... is the position on top or underneath? I know how your mind works, Ben!


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