Social attitudes survey

[bunn]

Here is a social attitudes survey, via huinare
I found this somewhat hilarious, because it kept asking questions in the form 'Our country' or 'We' without taking into account that the facts about'our country' or 'we' are going to be dramatically different depending on which country / 'we' is involved.

It concluded:
"Radicalism 72
Socialism 18.75
Tenderness 40.625

These scores indicate that you are a moderate progressive; this is the political profile one might associate with a liberated atheist. It appears that you are skeptical towards religion, and have a pragmatic attitude towards humanity in general.

Your attitudes towards economics appear laissez-faire capitalist, and combined with your social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be described as libertarian.

To round out the picture you appear to be, political preference aside, a centrist with few strong opinions."

I have few strong opinions! I am pretty sure that anyone who has met me for more than about 20 seconds would be somewhat amazed by this verdict. I think what they mean is, I can instantly come up with two diametrically-opposed scenarios for almost any question. The ratings for 'socialism' surprised me a bit too!

Comments

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Your observation about "our" country is one that crossed my mind when I was doing this.

I have few strong opinions! I am pretty sure that anyone who has met me for more than about 20 seconds would be somewhat amazed by this verdict.

Ha. I'm thinking it might have to do with how frequently one picked the "agree/disagree strongly" options maybe? I agreed/disagreed stronly with a few of the options, and was told I had "a few" strong opinions.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that's what they are going on, but that has to be a false indicator - it could only be accurate if the questions were phrased in such a way as to avoid 'it depends' answers, which they weren't - although I suspect if you were the quiz-setter, you would get fewer 'it depends' answers because the questions would be shaped around your own view of the world...