Message from @ETBrooD
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The 9axis test is US-centric
>State and local laws should have precedence over national laws
That question doesn't apply well to many other countries
it applies, you don't necessarily have the history of states and their rights but everywhere has a region of some kind
easily translatable to counties
city states is the exception, somewhat
or oblasts if you're further east
This question is bad
>Countries that violate human rights should be toppled
From within or from outside?
Also, what are human rights? UN definition? Other definitions?
The quiz is certainly taking a US centric approach, it's very clear
Another bad question
>People should think of themselves as citizens of their nation rather than their state
"State" is not defined
Highly US centric, it's basically impossible to take much away from that quiz
Depending on how you define words or what perspective you take you can come out with strongly varying results
on the contrary, I think having an obvious context to the questions is more useful than not. Generalised terms have less meaning
my main contentions with this quiz so far are all the places where it deviates from the politiscales version of 8values
I strongly disagree because sometimes the test asks for abstract ideology and sometimes for the real life application of policies
Mixing both together leads to a confused set of values
ok NOW I'm triggered by it
"States cannot function without a strong national government" - which definition of states ffs
Exactly 🙂
I think it's a pretty bad quiz created by someone who doesn't really understand political philosophy
someone looked at 8values (a slight corruption of the obviously French politiscales) and decided 'this is confusing and european, I have to make it American'
Lets make 10values next and blend them all together to fix this problem
*not sarcasm at all /s*
all that to get results I think are relatively meaningless because of the content of the questions. thoroughly unimpressed, and I think my results describe my ideology poorly.
Would you say tradition, religiosity and isolationism describe your views somewhat?
@Greasy
Which particular value do you think is furthest from your own opinion?
I don't like that personality disorder test, not very scientific afaik @ETBrooD
well for comparison, here's my latest politiscales result
I like it tbh
But I might be biased because I think it describes me pretty much perfectly
my results were pretty much all zero so maybe that was the annoying part.
Holy shit how's that even possible 😄
but yeah, you see the difference between 9axis and politiscales? 9axis implies that I'm relatively centrist but religious and nationalist, while politiscales correctly identifies that i'm a conservative nationalist who largely wants to work within rationalised systems. far more informative.
and yeah if you're rationalising questions the way I do, on a quiz like that you're only gonna score on existentialist questions. So i'm pretty sure I had numbers only on compulsive, avoidant, depressive and borderline.
didn't save my result because it wasn't worth keeping
huh alright
Well, personality can be trained to some extent <:transdank:462401354745249792>
If you're unhappy with your personality being a flatland like the Netherlands you can perhaps try to raise your schizoid levels, that sounds the most fun tbh <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>
oh for sure, it can be changed. But I'm perfectly fine with having a lack of outstanding mental issues (at least those considered insane by function). get enough weird looks when I talk about my interests or politics anyway