I don’t think you can tell, but I’m going to try, too.1. C 2. C 3. L 4. L 5. L
6. L 7.L 8. L 9. C 10. L
11. C 12. C 13. C 14. L 15. C
16. C 17. L 18. C 19. L 20. L
21.L 22. L 23. L 24. L 25. C
Cool! Thanks a lot for doing this. I’m interested to see how I do.
- CCLLC
- LLCCL
- LCLCC
- LLCLC
- LCLLC
There was an interesting thread a while back about the “thin lipped” conservatives (if memory serves me well) but my search-fu is weak.
Before seeing the note about the 15/10 split, I thought
1 L C C L L
2 L L L C C
3 L C C C C
4 L C L L C
5 L C L L C
I amended that to:
1 L C C L L
2 L L L C C
3 L C C L C
4 L C L L C
5 L C L L L
Without doing any actual counts, it looks to me like you’re all hitting at about 50%.
The true party affiliation:
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NLLCC
NLLCC
NLLCC
NLLCC
NLLCC
Yes, that’s right. The pinko commie NDPers are the left column, the centre-left Liberals are the second and third, and the right wing fascist Tories are the right two columns. Sorry for playing that little trick, but it was the easiest way to keep track of who was who. :)[/spoiler]
More complete:
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Irene Mathyssen, NDP, London-Fanshawe
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Shawn Murphy, Lib, Charlottetown
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John Cannis, Lib, Scarborough Centre
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Nina Grewal, Con, Fleetwood-Port Kells
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Tim Uppal, Con, Edmonton-Sherwood Park
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Dennis Bevington, NDP, Western Arctic
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Marlene Jennings, Lib, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine
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Justin Trudeau, Lib, Papineau
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Deepak Obhrai, Con, Calgary East
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Greg Thompson, Con, New Brunswick Southwest
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Bruce Hyer, NDP, Thunder Bay-Superior North
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Carolyn Bennett, Lib, St. Paul’s
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Jean Claude D’Amours, Lib, Madawaska—Restigouche
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Leona Aglukkaq, Con, Nunavut
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James Bezan, Con, Selkirk-Interlake
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Olivia Chow, NDP, Trinity-Spadina
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Yasmin Ratansi, Lib, Don Valley East
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Francis Scarpaleggia, Lib, Lac-Saint-Louis
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Tony Clement, Con, Parry Sound-Muskoka
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Josee Verner, Con, Louis-Saint-Laurent
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Thomas Mulcair, NDP, Outremont
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Ralph Goodale, Lib, Wascana
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Alexandra Mendes, Brossard-La Prairie
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Bev Shipley, Con, Lambton-Kent-Middlesex
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Gord Brown, Con, Leeds-Grenville
Poor Justin Trudeau is getting picked as a Tory by a margin of 2 to 1. 
What’s that grinding noise? Oh, right. That would be his father spinning in his grave.
I knew a whopping five of them by name! I’ve really slipped. I used to work for an MP and I knew a lot of the names, but that was many years ago. That was before Svend Robinson pulled a “Winona Ryder” in the jewelry store. 
That was a great idea, though, getting those photos together. Very interesting results!
Oh yes. Foreigner = Liberal. I didn’t realize I was biased on gender. I would have thought I would be more biased on age.
This is the kind of stuff that would really ruin that guy’s day if there are enough responses and you send a link to one of his same-party adversaries.
I got 13 right out of 25. So my original answer stands.
No
I got worse than 50% on the big test, but fwiw I’m not all that exposed to political figures–I don’t watch the news. That said, some old guy once said “every man over forty is responsible for his face” and I have to wonder; a lifetime of expression one’s personality through the muscles of the face has to have some kind of effect, doesn’t it? I seem to see it in everyone I meet, but we all know how unreliable our subjective observations are.
I got 18/25 (including Trudeau ;)), and I didn’t know who any of them were for the record. I simplified my Ls and Ns into all Ls, since we were looking for political persuasion rather than party identity.
tomndebb, I’m guessing:
Conservative, liberal, liberal
I got 7 wrong on the first test, (Guesed Lib for #23, is that right? if not, 8 wrong.)
On the second I’m guessing all three are conservative. I’m also guessing that I’ll be really ebarassed when I find out who they are and that I didn’t recognize them.
Good point re: helmet head and Clinton.
I think the first test helped me to nail down my theory. I think it’s in the expression. I think conservative politicians are more likely to maintain a “controlling” or “dominant” facial expression. The “curled upper lip” is more an affectation than a genetic trait IMHO.
Like when my older brother came back from his second year at W&M. He had picked up this certain way of rolling his bottom lip over his teeth and sucking in air through tight lips that I’ve since noticed is very common among Republicans. (Especially “Young Republicans.”)
There’s also what I call “chin directing” which you seldom see from liberals. This is when one juts one’s chin almost imperceptibly thereby directing someone else to move that way, or direct their attention to that person, or “fetch” the object indicated. It’s really quite effective, and most people don’t realize they are being manipulated at all.
I don’t think it Naziesque to assert that some personality traits are inherited, and that those traits may influence ones political bias. The study I linked above seems to indicate that DNA influences risk-taking behavior, and risk-takers tend to be more liberal. No peroxided childer marching in unison here. . .
And really, it’s an intellectual discussion, not a world domination conspiracy - chill out.
WAG, Maybe it is that conservative politicians that we are aware of are the ones that are most successful at getting voted for. The conservative politicians that get the votes are the ones that…fit the right look for being a conservative politician.
For example if a 60 year old guy, with slightly thinning grey hair, a round face, looking like a guy who came out of casting for a role as a banker or CEO maybe might fare better in an election to represent their party than a younger, more gaunt guy with sharper features. Maybe Liberal voters have a different or more divergent criterea for who looks like the kind of politician who shares their views or inspires their confidence in them. Looks can have an affect on a politician’s success.
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What are the answers to the second test, eh?
OK, I’ll play.
1-D
2-R
3-D
I’m pretty sure those photos were all of the same guy as he got older.
:dubious:
Then why did he flip flop on the issues so much?
Yeah I don’t have any of those features. 
While some people may not be able to see a difference - some people clearly can!
I just tried this quiz and got 13 out of 15 correct.
If I’d had a chance to hear them speak (about anything) I’d have likely done even better.
I think there is a very clear difference on how most Left or Right leaning people look, and the more strongly they lean in one direction or the other - the more perceptible is the difference. And the difference is at least as much determined by Nature (DNA) as it is by Nurture and overall upbringing.