Monday, May 16, 2005

Liberal? Conservative? According to PEW, who are you politically?

Go take this test. Beyond Red & White - Pew Research Center.

It interesting, but not too very useful.

This is why. This is a forced-choice value survey with an extremely limited set of values questioned. I notice that there is not a set of questions that go to the values of labor or union support. I would find it a lot more useful if it did. It is all morals/economic/military force vs. Diplomacy.

I also notice that it does not ask about prior military service. Those of us who are vets might surprise a lot of people.

Essentially this is a way to get people to offer their opinions on values using forced choices, then labeling themselves as Liberal - conservative, Democrat - Republican. Pew will take these results and establish profiles based on this particular limited set of values.

Then they give you back a preliminary set of profiles and tell you where you fit into it. But you will notice that they give you back your responses on each question, but they do NOT give you the anticipated reaction as a comparison on each question by the members of that profile.

Still, it is rather fun.

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