Annoyed.

[sonofmudflap]

I'm annoyed by the OkCupid test. Why

Comments

[sidhedevil]

100% and ginormously emphatic agreement, right here!

Most of the questions I'd expect to find on something like this weren't there. I didn't see a capital punishment question either, or public schooling, or...gah! Lots of missed questions in general.

Silly tests. =/

[msteleute]

I was puzzled by that too. Maybe the test creator felt that some other questions asked point to how one would probably answer those questions? I would have to look back at the questions to figure that out though. Those are major issues that I'm surprised they left out.

[fiducia]

Yeah that test failed hard. It focused more of philosophical BS than actual issues and your given stance on them.

[secret_stuff]

No offense, but you went to OK Cupid, and you are blaming personality tests in general? Sir, you participated in a MEME that was as likely as not made by a drunk college dropout who was annoyed that the "Would you suck my c*ck?" test was already written by someone else :-p

[wanderingbastet]

Hahah! Exactly. :-D It's an online quiz, not exactly a vetted and soundly-researched evaluation.

[cheetahmaster]

Shit, they aren't? There goes my term paper.

[adderyn]

Well I'm just glad that you've heard of the test I created last year.

[rojir]

Perhaps because those "political issues" are not the truly relevant ones, where as things about spending, and such, are?

[sonofmudflap]

See, though, to me, those are relevant issues.

[secret_stuff]

They are, just not to that graph.

I think the problem with moral issues is they can be completely independent. You can be 100% Liberal, but if your religion says X is wrong, and you believe it, it would skew things if you weighted it on a continuum of individual thought.

The Catholic Church, for example, is actually (in modern American history at least) quite liberal. Pro-immigration, pro-worker, pro-helping the poor, etc. The issues on which they are "conservative" - abortion, divorce, sexuality, are because they are non-negotiable points of dogma, where it has nothing to do with a person's individual views.

[rojir]

But on the large political scale, those are small issues. Politicians use these issues to galvanize the populace.