post your progressive score

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/progressive_quiz.html

286

279

361.

320 <------- spot the non-American

348, and I'm not merely american, but Texan.

330 but some of those questions were stupid.

250ish, I did it a while ago.

xp agreed. 336

300

pretty stupid questions imo

LOL, I accidentally agreed strongly with the "...life begins at conception and must be protected from then" question

For example "The main responsibility of corporations is to generate profit for their shareholders" well yes it is but is that a good thing and does believing that make you a conservative?

An online quiz with badly phrased (at minimum) questions? Say it ain't so!

325

337. But I'm from Yurp.

280! Well, it is called the Progressive Quiz!

A bunch of those questions I am only aware of as "party lines" for one side or another, so I was knowingly answering them as a "progressive". Ie I am not educated about the issues OUTSIDE OF the debate about whether they're progressive or conservative. I think I missed the ground floor somewhere.

341, but so many of the questions were retarded and impossible to answer

317 but some of those questions were stupid.

yeah, noodle, that one in particular stuck out to me, too.

ditto the question about "big gov't" v. "limited gov't"

big, wasteful gov't is bad to everyone, and a limited gov't is good if it's limited to what you think gov't ought to be doing! one man's limited gov't limits spending to defense, the other to social programs, etc.

295, although a lot of those questions need some unpacking, obvs.

There was one about whether the free market is good for America, to which I thought 'yeah it's good for America'.

I think I misread some of the questions and put 0, when it should've been ten, ack.

Would've been better with questions like "America Should Nuke the Commie-Nazis Y/N?"

276, I am very progressive! Boogie!

334

i just put 5 for some of the dumber, more loaded questions

btw my score result added "Morbs, move out of Dreamland"

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Yeah, there were a couple were I thought "don't know don't care" and gave them 5.

329

291

324! i thought i would come out less...

333 and yeah some of these q's are lame

380 woo hoo I am evil.

a little more web traffic to CAP is all right by me

281

291

314.

Where's the fuckin' 10 key, tho?

335 - but it didn't breach some of the issues I'm more "conservative" on.

I thought this thread was going to be about car insurance, at first.

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damn, i'm the least progressive so far. Need Cunga to do this shit or something. Or bring back roger adultery.

-50 he'd be.

275

267 - jim, we're not so far apart. I think I answered almost all of the questions "the correct way" but I gave a lot of 8's and 3's - though I did say that the free market does better at creating jobs and economic growth, and that corporations are responsible to provide profits to shareholders. I think there were a number of these that in theory I'd have given a 10, but pragmatically ended up with 8s and 7s because I felt "that would be great, but it's not gonna happen in my lifetime."

I like ian's contribution to this thread. I would've been stoked if this was a progressive musical score thread.

333, kind of surprised. i knew i'd be on the progressive end but i didn't think to that extent

349

lol i r more progressive than morbs OMGWTF

THIS TEST WAS TOO LONG

but basically i am an unreformed, unrepentant communist-ish hippie flake

306

296 (and I'm an Army veteran.)

338

I like how being a budget hawk now apparently gives you progressive cred.

309, and a big fat wtf at half of the questions

354

I tend to vote high or low, though, with little middle ground.

I put in a 5 for some of the worst ones, hoping to neutralize them. Like, "Government spending is almost always wasteful and inefficient." That one's so bad, it's can't even commit to its own premise. It lives in shame.

I think I gave that one a 3 or 4, given that I work for the gov't and have seen examples of both wise and unwise spending, esp. wrt travel.

Oh sure, 5 would probably be a fine answer even if the statement was the ballsier "Government spending is wasteful and inefficient." I mean, I'm already going to rate it according to how much I agree or disagree, there's no reason to hedge.

368

lolz, gave up when I realized my pressing the zero-key = 10 = "Agree More". This qwertyian slip makes it clear that I hate homosexuals.

380. Lefty crackpot.

quizzes like this are such a bad measure of anything. first question was whether i agreed that the primary aim of corporations is to improve returns for their employees & shareholders, not to improve society (or some such) - i wholeheartedly agree. i just don't think that the primary aim of corporations is something that the govt or society should really take into account that much. but agreeing w/the statement here would make me a conservative.

(apols if this has been covered, haven't read whole thread)

293, Canadian.

No, I totally agreed with that statement and gave it a 10. I don't think that's a conservative opinion, it's the first step in any critique of capitalism.

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the primary aim of corporations is to improve returns for their employees & shareholders

How's that been working out for 'em lately?

John Nash to thread.

higher than average american, lower than average ilxor 240

quizzes like this are such a bad measure of anything.

I'm surprised at how seriously so many folks are taking this stupid quiz. It's not science, even political science. The questions most certainly wouldn't pass any 1st year poli sci undergrad's sniff test for usability. It's just a goof, like 100,000 other Internet quizzes, "purity tests", or what have you.

who is taking it seriously

Shouldn't you be tag-teaming with Lamp?

im not sure what that means

i want to take a purity test. am not confident of achieving a score of 240 however

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I was just looking for a band name generator, not anything practical

346

263

you're all a bunch of liberal nutcases

i think the point is to increase, marginally, the number of ppl who might think of themselves as progressive or be comfortable hearing the term

sorry to channel gabbneb for a minute (rip)

i think the point is to increase, marginally, the number of ppl who might think of themselves as progressive or be comfortable hearing the term

OTM award for today.

307. someone would make one of these to determine how prog-rock you are.

My 314 was described as extremely progressive, I think. I self-categorize as a moderate liberal, tho.

I've changed my mind. It's a serious quiz, but only in a meta sense.

i like the one that told me which candidate i should vote for better.

(1st choice: kucinich; 2nd coice: ron paul. LOLOLOLOL)

What do you have to answer to have a conservative score, I wonder? Seeing as how so many questions are half-sensical, this could be fun.

i'm going to takle it again and answer as my father would. will report back.

HALP! What's the conservative answer to the budget deficit question?

someone would make one of these to determine how prog-rock you are.

Hi dere!

Except that one is actually crap.

HALP! Is it conservative to be isolationist?

Bush has made being conservative harder that it sounds.

i want one for "your passive agressive score"

Bush has made being conservative harder that it sounds.

lol, otm & why gop is (hopefully) wandering in desert for a couple of terms

I managed to get my score down to 20, which means I incorrectly unpacked two questions. Going through it again, I see what libcrypt means -- the quiz is loaded heavily to make sure you answer progressively, because the inverse of the "progressive" opinion wouldn't be conservative, it would be straight-up crackers.

I think we should all pour one out for Gabbneb right now.

where's don weiner?

the o.g. http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html

HALP! What's the conservative answer to the budget deficit question?

They're bad.

Is that indicative of how far the US is to the right that people don't even know any more? Or just that conservative administrations actually rack up huge deficits despite the ideology.

So, fiscally conservative Democrats are called "Blue Dogs", right?

I got a lefty-Brit 355!

Is that indicative of how far the US is to the right that people don't even know any more? Or just that conservative administrations actually rack up huge deficits despite the ideology.

The latter. It was kind of a joke. Although I am genuinely confused about free trade. I know conservatives like it, but I don't understand what's conservative about it.

Ah! Sorry.

Although I am genuinely confused about free trade. I know conservatives like it, but I don't understand what's conservative about it.

I know some conservatives that are anti-free trade and anti-NAFTA because of where their money comes from. But the ideological conservative argument in favor of free trade, as I understand it, is that it is a logical extension of capitalism, which should be regulated as little as possible. By regulating trade, one is regulating capitalism and the free market. There is also the social belief that it will improve the lives and societies of the international participants in free trade, and that capitalism and the nice things that it introduces will make the "savages" behave better. To quote Billy Bragg, "they all want what we've got, but they don't know it yet."

Makes sense. I'm all for free trade myself, though I'd leave out the part about "savages."

It seems to me that the "oh noes cultural imperialism" argument is the same as the "corporations have social responsibilities" argument, i.e., irrelevant.