Translate
Neutral Politics is a community dedicated to evenhanded, empirical discussion of political issues. It is a space to discuss policy and the tone of political debate.
by
Report
My problem with the test is that there is no neutral/(N/A) button, so it's hard for me to answer truthfully on topics I may not have enough knowledge on to give an educated response. I'm looking for a test that's similar in the sense that it will provide a more complex evaluation of my political opinions, if the results are shown in the same style as the PCT (a graph showing where I sit) rather than just telling me that I'm a republican/democrat/libertarian, that would be great.
Here's what the website has to say about a proposition for a "don't know option:" "This makes it too easy for people to duck difficult issues. By forcing people to take a positive or negative stance, the propositions make people really evaluate their feelings. Often people find they wanted to select 'don't know' mainly because they'd never really thought about the idea."
My issue with this is that it's not so much I haven't thought about an idea, but that I have no knowledge of what they're asking me, and the time I want to spend while taking the test to research the issue is not enough for me to form an opinion. Usually if a new idea/concept is presented to me I don't just sit down, research for twenty minutes, than know exactly where I stand. I don't form my opinions overnight, and I feel that the test is asking me to form them on the spot.
Sort by:
Log in to sort by top, controversial, or new
21
comments
![[deleted]](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="64" height="64"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
Use isidewith.com. It had everything you're looking for, and the flexibility of the "quick and sweet" vs "thorough" questionnaires. No quick and dirty graph though, more like a percentage rank of political affiliation
Report
The test has difficult questions and no neutral answers for a reason.
Most people generally have read enough or seen something to get a general partisan inclination on any particular question, even if they don't fully understand the details. By forcing a binary answer, you inadvertently admit your bias.
Basically, it's not a political knowledge test, but a test of political bias. If you are knowledgeable on the details, then it further refines your actual position.
Report
Be careful with compass tests... the libertarian party put out several on different websites with loaded questions. Sure its possible to side with any of the parties, so it looks "fair". but the wording of many of the questions is biased, leading people to the "right" answers to land libertarian. shortly after several other parties and political non party groups did the same.
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/quiz.php
which i see linked right here in reply to you, is a good example of loaded questions.
Take
End "corporate welfare." No government handouts to business.
just by calling it that, they are implying an answer.
Change the word handout to subsidies, and change the first sentance to "End government aid to corporations" to get a much cleaner question.
Take question 2 in economics for another example-
End government barriers to international free trade.
The use of word barriers makes it read as negative, and leads you to answer their way. Instead, if you word it "International Free trade is something governments should support" you remove the loaded language.
As i said, be careful, almost all of these "compass" quiz's have an agenda and load the questions to get you to answer whatever makes you think you belong to their mind set.
Report
[removed]
Report
Report
This is a delightfully succinct political quiz that I find categorizes me in the same way as more elaborate quizzes.
Report
Wait, so you lack in-depth political knowledge.... but you want an in-depth political test? I don't even understand the logic behind that. Its like asking for a math test that doesn't have any math on it.
The Political Compass Test is designed for people like you. It isn't about measuring your knowledge, it is not about how educated you are, it is about measuring your immediate and intuitive ways of looking at the world. That said, the questions are very rudimentary. What exactly are you struggling with?
Report
http://politics.beasts.org/ 5 options per question.
Report
The biggest problem with the political compass test is that it relies on some very nonstandard definitions of "freedom," in which, e.g., white supremacy is more "free" than civil rights as long as the former is privatized.
Report