Political Bias/Knowledge Quiz

My Bias score was  0.   

However, 7/18 wasn't good on the questions.   So does that make me unbiased but ignorant :o

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Many people are working hard to reduce the level of bias and animosity in American politics. We especially recommend the anti-bias sites All Sides and Civil Politics, as well as the fact-check sites FactCheck.org and PolitiFact.com. If you want to learn more about your own moral and political views, we recommend this test at YourMorals.org. For those who want to dig deeper, Jonathan Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind on moral and political psychology is warmly recommended.
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knapplc said:
I only got 8/18 questions correct, but it said my bias score was 0%.  So I got that going for me.
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That's roughly around the mark I expected to hit as I was taking it. I was very uncertain about a lot of the questions.

 
I think that was the answer to two questions, actually! The two on crime, IIRC. I answered both of those in a direction corresponding to my "strongly against" tough-on-crime perspective. 

 
Humbling.  Made me feel kinda dumb!

Political knowledge - 7/18 (38.89%)

Bias - 52.7%

My big misses were the economy (no surprise - I've got zero passion for that topic)

 
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This quiz surveys you for your stated political leanings, and then asks a series of 14 'knowledge' questions. Afterwards, you get feedback about what biases your answers may have exposed, and you'll get to see what you answered right or wrong. 

(My bias score was 1/3, which is in the 35th percentile. Apparently 50% of people are between 0 and 63, and another 50% are higher than that. )

I don't know too much about the organization running this or the LSE polisci faculty member they are collaborating with, but it seems like a thoughtful and interesting survey. What did you get? What'd you get right/wrong? (don't look ahead if you want to avoid spoilers)

 
I got 12 right, which was better than 95%, and 0 bias in political leaning, whatever that means.

So, does this mean I should run for office?  :lol:

 
I’m not exactly sure what it means but....

My total political bias was 0%. 25% of test takers get this score, the average is 47.14%.

I correctly answered 10/18 for 55.56%, my score was higher than 85% of test takers.

I guess the bias score surprises me a little. I would’ve thought I was little biased but maybe the political events of the past couple years have caused me to be fairer and more open minded.

I scored highest on the economy and was 50% in each of the other 3 areas. I didn’t really totally blow any answer though. The ones I got wrong we’re just a notch off.

 
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Nice! The blurb about bias was too long for me to read without losing interest, so I haven't gotten around to it :-P I imagine it has a lot to do with how accurately you answered the survey questions. That said, I do think 0 is good =)

I got 14/18. Missed both the crime questions, another one on the "number of tech companies by market capitalization" -- I thought there would've been more than one Chinese or Korean company in that list! I guess not. I forget what the last miss was. 

One of the things this quiz reinforced for me was that you can't simply assume things are "not known" and consider that the most reasonable response ... at the same time, sometimes it really is "not known", and it's dangerous to assume a positive when it's perhaps more unclear. Kind of a tough battle to fight. This of course is why those with ill-intent will try to obfuscate (GMOs, climate change, evo-freaking-lution). Similarly it's why people who commit crimes will brazenly lie about it. Because it's probably effective.

 
I did that on a few I got wrong. I said not known yet on GMO’s and safely storing radioactive waste. I kind of feel like those were trick question. Sure “technically” you can store the waste, but only time will tell if it’s truly safe. And I could be wrong but aren’t some GMO’s safe while others are not? My next door neighbor is a geneticist and modifies corn that is safe....I think it’s safe  :lol:

 
Comfortably Numb said:
I did that on a few I got wrong. I said not known yet on GMO’s and safely storing radioactive waste. I kind of feel like those were trick question. Sure “technically” you can store the waste, but only time will tell if it’s truly safe. And I could be wrong but aren’t some GMO’s safe while others are not? My next door neighbor is a geneticist and modifies corn that is safe....I think it’s safe  :lol:
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The trick to the radioactive question is that the question asked if it was safe to store for decades - we've already been storing radioactive waste safely for decades.

I got 15/18 but I didn't see a bias result on that page. I got both crimes questions wrong along with the organic food production vs conventional.

 
You gotta keep clicking forward to get to the bias results. It’s like the 4th or 5th page IIRC.

And yeah, I knew we had already stored it safely for decades but what if something goes wrong ten, twenty, thirty years from now? I may have over thunk it.

Side story. there is a decommissioned nuclear power facility about 15 miles north of here. I went there to look at a job a few years back. They have retired military guys guarding it and it ain’t no joke....you don’t just walk in to the place. But what amazes me is the steam still coming out of the stacks. Sh#ts been shut down for years (maybe two decades or more) and the rods are still cooling off. Kinda spooky.

 
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