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Originally Posted by Yakk
Economic Left/Right: -2.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00
Note, however, that I answered many, many of the questions on semantic grounds. I doubt I was answering the question they meant to ask. When you say 'sometimes', that means 'sometimes' and not often, for example. I find that, depending on how literal I am feeling that day, my score varies alot on these tests. =)
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Actually, I had some major problems with the wording of some of the questions, and semantics cannot be ignored when some of the quesitons were clearly designed to evoke emotional reposnses. Still, I analyzed those questions individually, outside of the matrix of the survey, and answered using logic and my most honest feelings.
My score:
Economic Left/Right: -6.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31
Looks like I'm keeping fairly good company with Ghandi and the Dalai Lama.
So, J.J., I'm interested to find out how a strong libertarian such as yourself actually ranked so economically high? I can't help but think that you, too, answered some of the emotional questions contrary to your thoughts just so as not to do what is expected. Is this true?
Two things that are unfortuante about this test are 1) that you cannot repeat the test with any reasonable expectation of accuracy, knowing how to skew the results and 2) that the survey appears to be primarily qualitative in nature and that the mertics used to evaluate the responses are not available. That could be helpful in determining the accuracy of the measurements, although statistics is not my field, and I really and truly dislike them!
Anyway, thanks J.J. for challenging us with this, very thought provoking.
Peace,
Pierre
ps. I don't suppose that the "JJ" Actually stand for Jean Jacques like the original, do they?