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Old 04-18-2006, 03:30 PM
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Default PBS Political Quiz

For such a short test, this is surprisingly accurate:

http://www.pbs.org/arguing/quiz.html

Out of the 10 questions that you answered, you can best be described as Liberal/Socialist.

Liberal: 45.5%
Conservative: 9.1%
Socialist: 45.5%

My conservative answer, of course, was on moral values. I appreciate all replies. Thank you very much.
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Default good quiz but a little too short

It was a good quiz but it was a tad bit too short it gave me 9% conservative when I'm not at all conservative I think. Anyhow it was worth the time

Liberal: 18.2%
Conservative: 9.1%
Socialist: 72.7%
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Out of the 10 questions that you answered, you can best be described as Conservative. (For definitions, see below).
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Political Views Raw Score % Composition
Liberal: 0 0.0
Conservative: 10 100.0
Socialist: 0 0.0

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Liberal: 50.0
Conservative: 33.3
Socialist: 16.7

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As a liberal you believe that the state should take a hand in regulating the free market in order to prevent abuses of the system. You also feel that government should take somewhat of a redistributive role in ensuring that the poor have adequate means to live and to prevent the grossest inequalities in wealth. At the same time you believe that the economy if monitored can be a significant engine of wealth for society. You also strongly believe that government should keep its hands out of regulating moral values, and should enforce a strict separation of church and state, leaving moral decisions and religious expression solely to the private realm

This is a very lop-sided test. It should have been purely about fiscal policy since it only tossed in about two social ones, that were both pretty much the same.
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Default Not much of conservative are you Rocky?

I got the exact same score as Java.

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Liberal: 6 50.0
Conservative: 4 33.3
Socialist: 2 16.7
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Does answering no to the "moral" questions count for both liberal and socialist?
If so it's impossible to get 100% lib or soc.
Or maybe I'm looking too deep.
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Does answering no to the "moral" questions count for both liberal and socialist?
If so it's impossible to get 100% lib or soc.
Or maybe I'm looking too deep.
I tried answering all of the questions in the "liberal" or the "socialist" way, but I couldn't get a score of 100% liberal or 100% socialist. That was an intelligent observation, JavaBlack.
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Liberal: 6 50.0
Conservative: 1 8.3
Socialist: 5 41.7

Liberal

As a liberal you believe that the state should take a hand in regulating the free market in order to prevent abuses of the system. You also feel that government should take somewhat of a redistributive role in ensuring that the poor have adequate means to live and to prevent the grossest inequalities in wealth. At the same time you believe that the economy if monitored can be a significant engine of wealth for society. You also strongly believe that government should keep its hands out of regulating moral values, and should enforce a strict separation of church and state, leaving moral decisions and religious expression solely to the private realm.

PS. YOU ALL NICE TO ME!

That 1 in conservative column must be a mistake.
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That 1 in conservative column must be a mistake.
I would never call myself conservative and managed to get a 33%. Imagine my horror.
What's real funny was when my fiancee and I took a political test. She is usually right of me on fiscal policy, but the test labeled me a "strong Democrat" and her a "socialist." It was pretty funny.
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I'm part centrist and part socialist in my thinking, which is why I get very different results on different tests.
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