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Modulous
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Message 6 of 63 (343514)
08-26-2006 5:16 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Lykaios
08-26-2006 12:54 AM


US-centric
Separation of Church and State has gone too far in this country.
What is 'this country'? Is it my country, or the US where the issue of Seperation of Church and State is an issue?
quote:
Radicalism: 71 percent
Tenderness: 41 percent
Socialism: 30 percent
These scores indicate that you are a radical; this is the political profile one might associate with a university professor. It appears that you are skeptical towards religion, and have a generally optimistic attitude towards humanity in general.
To round out the picture, your attitudes towards economics appear capitalist, and combined with your social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be described as libertarian.
And for the record, I am often called evolutionist. Which means I accept the Theory of Evolution as a good explanatory framework for describing biological change. I also accept that the evidence for common descent is overwhelming enough to be considered a fact beyond any doubt.

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Modulous
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Message 8 of 63 (343527)
08-26-2006 7:53 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Lykaios
08-26-2006 12:54 AM


Crazy
I clicked 'strongly agree' to everything and came out as a moderate. The questions include: God created the World, Sex outside of marriage is wrong, refugees should fend for themselves and God is a figment of our imagination I'm pro-choice but think that there should more laws restricting abortion.
Surely I should be labelled insane, not moderate. The same happens if I choose the middle answer for all the questions.

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Modulous
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Message 21 of 63 (343870)
08-27-2006 2:48 AM
Reply to: Message 10 by nator
08-26-2006 9:07 AM


Re: Crazy
The questions go to either end of the scale, so if you select "strongly agree" for all of them, you should come up in the middle, as it takes an average.
I appreciate that's how it works, but I'm arguing that it is flawed. How can anyone with such extreme and contradictory opinions be fairly labelled moderate? It shows a flaw in the conclusions when it says that the person in question has moderate attitudes towards religion when the opinions put forward were that religious people are all hypocrites, God created the world and that God is just a figment of our imagination.

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