Electoral Compass (Thanks, Mimosa!)
Where I fall is not surprising at all. Not surprising given the nature of the questions. For instance, I was asked for an opinion on “Stricter gun control will not reduce crime.” My reply was “Tend To Disagree.” If the statement were “More efficient gun control will not reduce crime,” however, my response is “Completely Disagree.” No large government, corporation or anything is effective. It’s the nature of bureaucracy. In the absence of red tape, we’d be talking about a completely different compass than the one here, right?
In other not-so-news, this test only reinforces my gut-felt support of Barack Obama for president.
I don’t think the candidates are plotted very accurately.
You think Huckabee doesn’t belong in his current spot?
I was closest to Barack Obama and furthest from Fred Thompson.
I don’t like the way the questions were worded – it ended up confusing me a bit.
Also, the questions about that with which I am most familiar struck me as simplistic. Forget getting paid less, I think bad teachers should be fired. But, I want to know how we’re determining that a teacher is bad or good. Test scores?
Also, re: creationism. I don’t think it should be ignored. Maybe it should be discussed (“taught” sounds like “forced down one’s throat) in history or social studies classes, not science. But educators can’t pretend the theory doesn’t exist. Even if it might be ridiculous.
T, this gets into a whole different argument of mine that science classes should not be about teaching theories AT ALL, but about passing on the tools of discovery, i.e. the scientific method and associated critical thinking skills, i.e. logic and mathematics. Everyone is so dogmatically hung up on his or her pet theory of something that the whole point of the difference between science and faith, and what each provides a human being, is lost. There ought to be no place for Flavor Of The Day in any science classroom, only Question Everything.
Huh. That’s a tad different from the political compass quiz I filled out a few days ago…
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Interesting. The test put me about where I thought it should even though the questions were a bit simplistic.
M, we don’t always agree, but you are right on about what belongs in the classroom. I also agree with T.: “Off with their heads!”
How come I think most of the question miss the point?
I came out almost dead center. Yet some of my answers don’t reflect my views accurately.
For example, I think government should get out of the marriage business altogether. So I don’t think the government should recognize either gay marriage or heterosexual sexual marriage.
Flawed. They didn’t ask about New Orleans. That’s the only issue that matters.
An aside – nice banner! Did you make it yourself?
Why yes, T, yes I did. Thanks for noticing.