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Silent H
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Message 11 of 23 (138206)
08-30-2004 5:39 PM


Buz replied to me in an another thread...
1. Several questions on page one seemed to implicate the Bush Admin foreign affairs in the Middleast.
2. Question one assumes and insinuates that trans-national private enterprise corporations do not serve humanity.
3. In ques 2 no matter how I answer, it portrays me as supporting either all or none of my country's policies.
4. 3 has nobody choosing country of birth and insinuates national pride to be foolish.
5. 4 casts a bad racist shadow on any who would recognize superior qualities of their respective races...
I think you are reading into these statements a derision or added meaning which is not there. They are strong statements which can bring up certain references to any person's mind, but it is up to you to support them or not.
There is no implication you are bad for having chosen whichever you have.
I am puzzled how you believe anyone chooses their place of birth?
6. 5's problem is that the question is too relative a question for a yes or no answer.
I felt this was a problem with a lot of the questions and which is why I didn't think it was necessarily accurate. I felt there wer several which were not just too relative, but could simply be taken to mean several different things.
In the end I think it indicated I was less libertarian than I actually am.
Why not take the test (it's only a couple of minutes) and see what it says and then compile different criticisms of why you didn't think it capture what you are, if it turns out different than you see yourself.
The survey would not let you view past page one without filling out page one.
Ya know you can just fill it out to see what is next?
I actually ran through it a couple different times using the different responses to the ambiguous questions I had problems with. Surprisingly I kept ending up in about the same area (I noted the range of scores in my post, rather than one single set).
This message has been edited by holmes, 08-30-2004 04:39 PM

holmes
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Silent H
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Message 13 of 23 (138229)
08-30-2004 6:49 PM


I have stated that this test did not feel completely accurate.
I thought some of the questions were too vague, or could be interpreted in different ways, as well as some needing something more than just agree/disagree. I mean what about I don't know/don't care.
In the end I don't think it reflected my actual libertarian social position.
Was anyone else finding faults with the test? Any thoughts on improvement?

holmes
"...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)

  
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