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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
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 Posted - 05/07/2004 : 13:24:09
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At the site http://www.boortz.com is another Libertarian quiz. I took it and as usual got voted in as a pure-as-the-driven-snow Libertarian.
The actual quiz is here.
Comments on the site? Or on the quiz?
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 05/13/2004 : 07:36:15 [Permalink]
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| I'm a left liberal. 90% Personal self government but 0% economic. It's about the same as I've scored on other, far more complex tests. |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 05/13/2004 : 09:51:06 [Permalink]
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I'm a left liberal authoritarian
Personal Self-Government Score is 50%.
Economic Self-Government Score is 10%.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 05/13/2004 : 11:03:57 [Permalink]
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I'm centrist. 60% and 60%.
The bad part of these sorts of quizzes is, of course, the pigeon-holing that goes on. Surely people are more complex than these few questions can determine, and it's obvious the questions aren't as well-written as they could be.
Take "Government should not control radio, TV, the press or the Internet," for example. The word "control" is ambiguous, as it could mean anything from simple allocation of frequencies (for radio and TV), all the way up to total state control of all content. The current system is somewhere in the middle.
And the choice "Maybe" doesn't really imply the answer I wanted to supply to several of the questions: "yes in some instances, no in others." "Maybe" is what I chose to answer, but it wasn't what I was thinking. For example, sex between consenting adults should be unregulated except in sex-for-hire situations, in which case there are public health considerations which perhaps should indeed be overseen by the state. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/13/2004 : 13:50:02 [Permalink]
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I'm a godless commie:
Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Economic Self-Government Score is 10%.
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 05/14/2004 : 06:03:43 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
I'm a godless commie:
Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Economic Self-Government Score is 10%.
That's godless commie bastard. I know. I've been called that enough. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2004 : 07:27:48 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
quote:
Originally posted by filthy
I'm a godless commie:
Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Economic Self-Government Score is 10%.
That's godless commie bastard. I know. I've been called that enough.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2004 : 08:17:03 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
I'm centrist. 60% and 60%.
The bad part of these sorts of quizzes is, of course, the pigeon-holing that goes on. Surely people are more complex than these few questions can determine, and it's obvious the questions aren't as well-written as they could be.
Take "Government should not control radio, TV, the press or the Internet," for example. The word "control" is ambiguous, as it could mean anything from simple allocation of frequencies (for radio and TV), all the way up to total state control of all content. The current system is somewhere in the middle.
And the choice "Maybe" doesn't really imply the answer I wanted to supply to several of the questions: "yes in some instances, no in others." "Maybe" is what I chose to answer, but it wasn't what I was thinking. For example, sex between consenting adults should be unregulated except in sex-for-hire situations, in which case there are public health considerations which perhaps should indeed be overseen by the state.
This was exactly what I was thinking (I'm a LL-- personal 80%, economic 40%). I think there are cases where the blanket statements you're asked to answer cannot be done with an unqualified yes or no. Drug laws? Even if we were to repeal, say, laws against pot, I'd still want laws regulating the drug so I know I'm getting pot and not, say, catnip or something. And about minimum wage-- that question seems less something that we should have opinions over and more like something that should be factually asserted. Does the minimum wage cause unemployment? I don't know, but does anyone? Is there compelling proof on one side or the other? Again, I don't know. But there probably is a (complex) answer-- something much different than a question of military service... |
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2004 : 12:25:34 [Permalink]
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According to your answers, your political philosophy is on the border of left-liberal and libertarian.
Your Personal Self-Government Score is 100%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 50%. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 05/15/2004 : 21:32:29 [Permalink]
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Personal Self-Government Score is 80%.
Economic Self-Government Score is 20%.
I'm a left liberal. I could have told them that without the test...
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 05/17/2004 : 07:17:00 [Permalink]
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Here I am an actual, real mathematician (--- well, sort of: a statician by training; a FORTRAN computer jockey by trade --) and I never thought to give my scores. Ach!
"Your Personal Self-Government Score is 70%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 70%."
I confess that I didn't really understand the question:
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People should be free to come and go across borders; to live and work where they choose.
If they mean "accross State borders" (live in Arizony; work in Californy) then I would answer "Yes".
If they mean "accross national borders" (live in Mexico; work in Texas) then I would answer "No".
I answered "Maybe" to this ambiguous question.
In fact, I scored just slightly across the border from "Centerist" in the dead-center of "Libertarian". This makes some slight degree of sense since in reality, I "live" in LibertarianLundt but "work" in CenteristVille. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 05/17/2004 : 08:34:39 [Permalink]
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| They're Libertarians, so they mean both state and national borders. What does citizenship matter when there'd be so little governing? |
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 05/17/2004 : 11:02:16 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
They're Libertarians, so they mean both state and national borders. What does citizenship matter when there'd be so little governing?
Because as a citizen of Florida, I don't want a bunch of plundering, big-headed, know-it-all Damned Yankees coming down here every winter and trying to redo everything into the image of The Holy Land: New York. |
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