mmmm. loaded phrasing.

[rmd]

i'm looking at the "see, no, really, you're actually all libertarians" online political quiz.

"The growing fusion between information and entertainment is a worrying contribution to the public's shrinking attention span."

oooh oooh oooh. i love presumptive questioning.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I think it's kinda like a Voigt-Kampff test. The questions are made deliberately provocative and presumptive in order to provoke a reaction.

Most people I know are scoring in the bottom left quadrant on that quiz (socially and economically liberal).

[firni.livejournal.com]

My friend Loren turned out just to the left of Hitler.

[princessheacock.livejournal.com]

I, too, was bothered by some loaded questions and refused to answer some questions entirely.

However, I also noticed, while hitting a lot of the "public issues" (The ones that cause arguments) there was at least one that was left completely off -- gun control. ANd now i don't remember if campaign finance reform was there either.

And I like your description of it as "Yes, really, you're all libertarians"

I have no problem with little-l libertarians though. Just Libertarians, in general.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

heck, i agree with libertarians on a number of issues. i suspect some of the reason for the lack of gun control is that i think that quiz is from some brits.

gun control doesn't have the same sort of high profile there as it does in the states.

i do think the quiz is phrased such that most people will come out as somewhat "libertarian", and thus say "hey! i guess i'm a libertarian!"

Funnily enough...

[solarbird]

...while the traditional "World's Smallest Political Quiz" that uses the same set of axises is very much like that, the questions in this one seem to me to be a lot more phrased to point you towards the Greens. The one you quoted in particular comes to mind. I dunno why, it just does.

Re: Funnily enough...

[rmd.livejournal.com]

huh. i wonder if that is also due to the british nature of the quiz, since libertarians there are a different breed than the big-L Libertarians here. although there's an overlap, i think, with the small-l libertarians here.

Re: Funnily enough...

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

I've seen this test before, and I think it's a pretty good one. The questions are deliberately strong in order to provoke a response, as someone else already said.

The fact that many people you know score libertarian on social issues is not surprising, since that's how they actually are.

I score left libertarian, exactly where I'd place myself. I'm pretty much in the same location as "Red" Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London.