since i am more or less non-functional at the moment, i decided to take a bunch of online quizzes on "ok cupid." so far, i have discovered that i am a "buzz hunter," i.e. a person who loves to drink bunches but doesn't quite have a drinking problem (as i sit here nursing a hangover from last night's law school open bar). i also took the politics quiz.
you are a
social liberal - 66% permissive
and an...
economic moderate - 55% permissive
you are best described as a: centrist [yeah, i know... sue me]
you exhibit a very well-developed sense of right and wrong and believe in economic fairness. [yep, marketing "ice beers" as "ice beers" but clandestinely pouring water back into ice beers to meet regulations of alcohol content is wrong. so wrong! however, the victoria's secret catalog being able to stalk me and find me wherever i move is not creepy -- it's so *right!*]
this graphic is a relief. i am elated to report that i am not a fascist.
here, we have two axes. "ecomonically permissive" and "lly permissive." i believe the latter is supposed to be "socially" but it could be "totally" or even "vaginally." you never know what's under the dot!
in this photo, i am in the center of some bizarre bermuda triangle of john kerry, martin luther king, and donald trump. all of them have funny hair. if one of you could take the test and tell me whose head i am directly over, i would appreciate it. right now, it looks vaguely like adam sandler, but that makes no sense.
and now we have the ubiquitous "red/blue" scatter map. i'm still true blue, biotches! shimmy shimmy ya!
again, the link is here: http://www.okcupid.com/politics
shimmy shimmy ya, shimmy yam, shimmy yay!
6 comments:
That was a cool little quiz. For some reason they ranked me as a socialist, go figure. But I was placed on Hilary's blouse, which I thought was funny.
i ranked as a 'Strong Democrat.' it was a fun quiz, but i have some quibbles with the way the questions were asked. there also seemed to be a lot of built-in assumptions in those questions. in any case, it wasn't meant to be a serious diagnositc test was it?
yeah i definitely have quibbles with the way the questions were asked.
example 1:
"something like the theory of natural selection explains why some people are homeless."
well, i would agree with this, because it says "some." some people are better adapted to surviving in modern society than others. however, i answered "agree" grudgingly, because i know i would have answered, "something like 'bad luck' explains why some people are homeless" the exact same way.
example 2:
"social justice should be the foundation of any economic system"
i don't like this one either. it leaves out all other possible core values, such as well, you know, "being competitive on the world market" and just pla "being excellent!" i think that this would be
why did blogger just publish without my permission? bleh?
and what exactly is "social justice"? it can mean different things to different people. i'm going to oversimplify things here.... but for the poor, socialism sounds like it would be "just." for the rich, it would be "unjust." capitalism for the rich would be "just" and for the struggling, it might be "unjust." "justice" is such a loaded word.
however, this question seemed to indicate something to the lines of "communism ain't so bad."
anyhow, i think a better way to word that would be "social concerns should be one of the considerations of modern economic systems." that would allow a competitive system with safety nets for people who encounter some bad luck.
example 3:
"It's wrong when environmental regulation puts people out of work, like when limits on logging make it harder for loggers to log logs."
yeah, this plain sucks. loggers are little people, like farmers. but what regulations are they talking about? there has to be a balance here - we see what happened to haiti. people failed to replant, and now there is no industry. i might have skipped this question.
blah blah blah.
it means i'm supposed to pick up a guitar and sing something about turkeys and then a few days later sing something about hanukkah. and doing so will eventually make me very rich. which, i guess, is pretty cool.
or it could mean something kinky.
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