Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/19/this-political-sorting-hat-wil.html
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Get some coffee and a snack, they’re 117 questions to plod through.
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I guess I don’t like people as much as Rob does.
If nothing else, my flag is quite colorful.
This is telling:
^This is why I don’t have political representation in the country I live in. Yes, that would be the US. How did you know?
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The spelling in that test was appalling. And some questions really were ambiguous/open to interpretation and ended up getting neutral answers. Still, the results that didn’t end up with a high %ge of white space in the middle did broadly reflect what I think I believe.
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Often these types of things reveal more about the tester than the tested. 
But these bits are probably true, and I like the flag.
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Or a shorter link
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9ew4kuq
And I’m curious how much Trump’s results look somewhat like a famous German flag from the 1930s and 1940s that I’m Godwin-ing the thread by bringing up
Binaryhermit: Proving Godwin’s law since 1985
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Yeah, the phrasing was far too unclear and inevitably there are qualifications in an individual’s perspective that cannot be expressed in these types of surveys/quizzes.
And WTF does strictly delimited filing systems have to do with anything? Is there some political debate I’m not aware of here? I could see how it could have political implications, but is there a real-world scenario where this has come up as a matter of debate?
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That’s the one that threw me, too. I think of filing systems and databases as just polymorphisms of information index structure, so the question made no sense. I passed on that one.
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Humanity-Socialism-Equality
Some of those questions are hard little pills to swallow. I just don’t have the backbone to stop eating meat.
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Here’s mine:
…which I think is funny partly because I might be the most vocally anti-specist person here, typically complaining that “humanity” is not really A Thing.
A few differences I had with the nature of the questions:
The questions assume that your are a citizen of a multi-parti political system and a market economy.
Those… are rather encompassing and troubling assumptions to start from. Also, many questions were about “regulation”, with the implication that regulatory processes are something hierarchically imposed, which presents a false dichotomy I often encounter here: imposed regulation versus no regulation - as opposed to the better option of true self/emergent regulation in a non-competitively structured society.
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Good! If all humans were vegetarian the already horrific global environmental holocaust would be far worse, and unstoppable. All large mammals other than humans would go extinct.
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I’m guessing my flag is white because I either surrender or it’s that stupid flash software.
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I think the question is supposed to be about linking government databases.
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Some of these questions are kind of shit.
Like what the hell is this supposed to mean:
I am equally concerned about the inhabitants of my country and those of other the countries.
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I think it’s supposed to be something like “I am equally concerned about my countrymen and foreigners.” Looks to me like the quiz was machine translated from French and then given a cursory once-over by a non-native English speaker.
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Too many questions I had marked as “neutral” because my answer would be “it depends on context”
Justice · Equality · Socialism
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Makes sense. I found some of the questions to be phrased very oddly or confusingly. So much so that I am not entirely sure if my answers actually match how I feel about certain issues.
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