Monday, June 08, 2020

Interesting, but mostly as a sign of how times have changed.

According to this test here, I am a "theocratic distributist."

That's an ominous coinage for what boils down to "standard-issue Cold War Catholic Democrat."

It's too much "today's hot buttons" and takes no account of the events which shape a person's worldview as they age. To make it more useful, it should ask for the age of the test-taker and ask him about events and political issues that they witnessed during their lifetimes.

The inadvertent "chronological snobbery," along with the mushiness (and sometimes obvious bias) of the questions are also a bit problematic.

But it's still interesting and unintentionally revealing. Even if the latter is more about the world in 2020 than the person being quizzed.



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