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Are you Liberal or Conservative?

Yancy Street Gang Feb 27 2007 08:32 AM

http://franz.org/quiz.htm I scored a 13, which puts me right between Bill and Hillary. And I thought that Monica was the only one who came between those two. (Well, and Paula, and Gennifer, and...)

sharpie Feb 27 2007 08:52 AM

I'm a 7, between Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton (though I dispute Hillary's placement in that graph).

metsmarathon Feb 27 2007 09:12 AM

18

KC Feb 27 2007 09:14 AM

I knew before taking it that I'd end up in a Colin/George sandwich. 22. >>>7. Who was a better president? Ronald Reagan Franklin D. Roosevelt<<< I'm glad I had nothing in my mouth when I got here.

Frayed Knot Feb 27 2007 09:22 AM

I distrust both the scale and the ability of those questions to accurately measure what it claims.

Edgy DC Feb 27 2007 09:30 AM

Yup. Nothing like peeps running around the office claiming that a test said they're Gandhi because of the toggles they clicked. Anybody can be Gandhi (or Colin Powell or Charles DeGaulle or Stiv Bators) on a desktop. When the rubber hits the road is a different story.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 27 2007 09:33 AM

I agree. It's a "just for fun" thing, and it shouldn't influence the way anyone votes. And frankly, I don't have any significant trust or distrust of either the IRS or the FBI, so my answer to that one (which I don't even remember) was totally arbitrary.

metirish Feb 27 2007 09:34 AM

10 for me...I'm a bit disapointed with that...thought I was more liberal.....

KC Feb 27 2007 09:37 AM

Wonder what the guy who wrote the questions scored. 3?

soupcan Feb 27 2007 09:44 AM

I come from a long line of NYC liberals and only scored a 17. A lot of those questions were loaded.

Frayed Knot Feb 27 2007 09:47 AM

]so my answer to that one (which I don't even remember) was totally arbitrary Which is kinda my point, that the answer to such arbitrary or toss-up questions results in a strict binary left/right outcome as if the question provides a definite insight. I love the one, for instance, where they ask if you trust the legislative or executive branch more. Does the outcome of that question change whenever control of the White House and/or Congress changes, or are they convinced that one answer is inherantly conservative while the other points to liberalism regardless of the current occupants? There are also plenty of conservatives who thought Roosevelt to be a terrific president ... including Reagan himself.

soupcan Feb 27 2007 09:53 AM

How about 'Who do you trust more - Union leaders or business executives?'

Centerfield Feb 27 2007 10:58 AM

14

ScarletKnight41 Feb 27 2007 11:26 AM

I got as far as "Which do you trust more - the FBI or the IRS?" when I decided to bail out of this one.

Nymr83 Feb 27 2007 12:17 PM

only a 32. way too liberal.

TransMonk Feb 27 2007 12:28 PM

14

Sandgnat Feb 27 2007 12:48 PM

26

Rockin' Doc Feb 27 2007 01:22 PM

I just always liked that picture, but I did score a 24 on that silly little quiz.

RealityChuck Feb 27 2007 03:18 PM

I'm a 3, but I would have left a lot of answers blank. I dislike surveys that try to force you into a limited number of choices that don't accurately reflect your position.

Johnny Dickshot Feb 27 2007 04:21 PM

RealityChuck wrote: I'm a 3, but I would have left a lot of answers blank. I dislike surveys that try to force you into a limited number of choices that don't accurately reflect your position. Same. I think I scored a 13 but didn't like it.

OlerudOwned Feb 27 2007 04:39 PM

Silly little thing, as we've established, but I got a 13. Not that far off, I guess. I'd consider myself moderately liberal.

cooby Feb 27 2007 05:18 PM

19 for me

TheOldMole Feb 27 2007 08:02 PM

I was an 8, but on some of the questions that I knew were a setup, I deliberately chose the "conservative" answer. Like who do you trust more, doctors or lawyers. I knew you were supposed to pick lawyers to get a higher lefty score, but that was just dumb. The question was dumb. So I gave a protest vote for doctors. I took the FBI.

Nymr83 Feb 27 2007 08:10 PM

there were a few (such as sports owners vs. players and business owners vs union leaders) where i'd have liked to answer "i trust neither." there were also a few where the C/L answer was unclear at least to me...doctors/lawyers, congress/president (i trust the institution of congress more, though i trust this particular congress less...i doubt most people would make that distinction) i took the FBI as well, but i have no particular distrust for the IRS, just a greater respect for law enforcement.

TheOldMole Feb 27 2007 08:46 PM

I'm guessing it's IRS = big government = libs, FBI = law and order = conservs. Again, dumb. No one trusts the IRS. And if you get far enough to the right, you think that all government law enforcement agencies are jackbooted thugs.

MFS62 Feb 27 2007 08:59 PM

A 12,, but I agree with others that the choices offered didn't leave much room for nuance. Later

Vic Sage Feb 28 2007 10:09 AM

I got a 13, too. Yeah, that thing is bogus. There should have been more "none of the above" options, especially on the "who do you trust more" questions, since i don't trust any institutions. I only trust people... and only those people who've earned it.