Some of the questions were silly, like the one about “people should make marriage and children a priority.” I don’t care all that much if people are getting married or not, but I’m obviously very much concerned about fertility rates and reproduction. How are you supposed to answer if you care strongly about one of the two things but not the other?
I answered the economics, environment and foreign policy questions pretty easily , but I had a more difficult time with the ‘social issue’ questions.
These kinds of quizzes are more designed to push you into a pre-defined category than determining what you think. The problem comes when someone says “you belong to such-and-such a group and therefore you think X and value Y over Z”.
The options “we should do more of this vs. this is mostly wasted” as they were applied to social welfare programs on the quiz misses the sensible option (IMO) - yes, a lot of it is wasted, AND yes, we should do more of it - we should just do it smarter.
LIberals say conservatives have hard hearts, and conservatives say liberals have soft heads. I would like to be able to vote for a politician with a hard head and a soft heart. Most of them seem to have the opposing arrangement.
Regards,
Shodan
Me too.
Next Generation Left, but there were probably half a dozen questions where I thought “Both of these options are crap.” and had to choose the one I (very minimally) disagreed with less. It kind of felt like I was responding to stump speech bullet points, which often have little to do with how the world actually works.
Hard Pressed Skeptic. Only 13% of us in society, yet two of us already in this thread.
I gave up after the second question. The quiz is worded so poorly as to be meaningless.
Definately a badly designed quiz.
The options for most questions were too far left and too far right to be remotely my view.
Which of the following statements comes closest to your view?
We should nuke the middle east into a glass parking lot.
We should fellate everyone in the middle east in penance for our oppression of them.
Neither, thanks.
Also a young outsider. 49 is young? Good for me!
Not THIS quiz again. Once again, I quit long before the end, and never found out what my political type was.
I fully agree with BOTH the statement that “Most people who work hard can get ahead” AND the statement that “Working hard is no guarantee of success.”
I fully believe that some government regulation of business is necessary AND that some regulation is counterproductive.
I believe BOTH that the enironment needs protection AND that many supposedly “green” measures are useless and non-cost effective.
In each case, I find it silly to try to choose which of two true statements represents my beliefs!
Solid liberal, to no surprise, but I echo the general view that the questions were much too black and white. For example, I think that both military force and good diplomacy are needed. But the military force should not be used stupidly, as it usually is.
Nearly every one, both options were stupid or both true but irrelevant. And almost more annoying was the ones where the sides weren’t even opposites of one another.
The quiz questions verge on extremist parody. It’s like they set the left wing answers by asking a bunch of right wing idiots what all lefties think, and vice versa.
Solid Liberal
Solid Conservative here
That really was a terrible quiz. Scored me as solid liberal. Bah, I say! And humbug as well!
In case anyone cares, I am (ostensibly) a ‘business conservative’.
Solid liberal, shocking.
Yet another Solid Liberal. “Generally affluent and highly educated,” eh? Try “relentlessly middle class and an autodidact with a high school diploma.” 
Solid Liberal, but it was an American test. I consider myself far to the left of 99% of the US.
As a non-American, should I have answered questions regarding “this country” for my country or for the US?
Another Young Outsider. 59 years young!