Another Gay Online Quiz
By way of Andrew Ian Dodge, we find another gay online quiz. Not that there's anything wrong with that. This quiz is very similar to the traditional two-axis political scheme often used by Libertarians to trick the unwary into thinking they're libertarian. But it has one advantage: they give you a cool, pirate style map instead of a boring graph.
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The map is cool, but I'm not
The map is cool, but I'm not sure the quiz is all that. I took it, and according to the results, you and I are next-door neighbors... which is sort of true, but not really.
The problem with that quiz, as with most others, is that Although they've expanded the graph out to two dimensions, each question proceeds along one axis alone, leaving no room for alternative conclusions. Do I want greater regulation of business AND a raise in the minimum wage? Or do I want less of both? What about lowering the amount of business regulation and raising the minimum wage? Huh? What about that?
Anyway, it's cute. Pirates!
I agree about the quiz. It
I agree about the quiz. It only really signifies at the corners, if at all. (One real benefit - it shows the similarity between Stalin and Hitler.) And the questions are not merely two axis, they're phrased in such a way that most people will answer in such a way as to place them right where you and I landed. Also, it ignores huge swaths of policy territory. Foreign affairs, most notably.
Government control of personal freedom and of the economy are not the only metrics for measuring your political coordinates.