No offense, khalling, but I strongly agreed that manufacturers and business people were more important. I like my writer and artist friends, but I have shrugged from manufacturing to only teach it. I still manufacture, but now only for myself - until the dawning of the new age of Atlantis. I kind of made it sound like Aquarius. Eeek!!

The site will let me print out the test, but I can't do it until later this evening. I'd like to examine the exact wording of some of those questions with you all, just for fun.

how'd you answer the question about who is more essential-manufacturers and business people or writers and artists?

they were highly frustrating. I am weirded out that several of you scored higher on the economics than I did. crazy statements I guess

I'm not interested in taking any test that does not offer at least one *rational* response to a question.

Freudian slip? Shouldn't God be capitalized?

I took the test just for kicks, ran into the 1st of the "you have to answer all the questions" and forced myself thru it just to get "my" score: economic 6.5, authoritarian -3.54. I'm in agreement, however, with others of you who have made criticisms of the test. When the question is written with 4 false premises in it, and you have to answer it with pre-written answers, you get.....dreck.
I'm curious if the site would let me go back in and print out [do a screen shot, probably] of the questions. I don't remember them well enough to say much about them - except that they over-fulfilled my frustration quotient for the day!

I completely agree with you. I think one of the inherent biases is how the rest of western culture thinks compared to the US. In their FAQ section they mentioned several places that certain criticisms were exclusively American. Their point was Americans have bias in certain areas. While I do not doubt that, just because one nation tends to skew a certain way, is not evidence to support irrational thinking. They list Ayn Rand as a choice in the other quiz, specifically to discredit her, without including her as an international, notable leader. They list many communist leaning "leaders" and completely leave out many notable US leaders. That was one of their biases.

All in all, it's a god quiz. It would be interesting to see how the responses would be if the provided the questions in the opposite verbiage Like...
Military action that defies international law is NEVER justified.

Like this...
Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified
It depends. That can't be answered absoluly.
I realize many of these types of quizzes rely on other questions to better zero on your thoughts. Which I suppose is fine, it seemed to flush out where I sit properly

along the left side, there is a link "Contact." Tehy invite you to write them

I've looked in vain for a place to send feedback. Or have I missed something?

they say in the FAQ that a "none of the above" response would be a cop-out.

I must have taken that one too, or perhaps I didn't read the instructions correctly. I'll do it over next week after I get back from my Vietnam Comrade Reunion.

I wasn't that far to the right nor that far down. I was +4.85 and -4.62
I think this is because I did not respond well to some of the statements that were intentionally written to evoke feelings or knee jerk responses. They tell you that's how they designed them.
For example, the statement where you had to agree that business people and manufacturers were more important than writers and artists, I completely disagree with. However, if I selected strongly disagree it was going to throw me more to the middle than I actually am. there were several like that, where I wasn't sure whether to say slightly agree or slightly disagree, often because there was more than one concept in the statement. I agreed with one part but not the other part.

I would expect Ayn Rand fans to be mostly far into the right and far down into the libertarian.

Regarding empire builders vs defense-only that Temlakos talked about, I expect most empire builders are also authoritarian and most territorial defense-only. There certainly will be exceptions.

I also imagine (wonder if there's any data to support it) that most people fall below the horizontal axis. To get elected, though, it's effective to try to get people upset with their neighbors about religious and personal issues, which means the politicians have to be above the line.

I saw that when I got my score, I felt all alone :-)
I found some of the questions frustrating because they didn't offer a none-of-the-above, or no-opinion response, but I scored right-libertarian, so, I guess go with gut works.

My score:
SPH: +0.75
CYL: -0.25
ADD: +1.00
Wait, that was a different test.

Who says economic globalization is inevitable? First question, and it starts with a flawed premise. Bleah!

Then the more I went through this test, it gets worse... it starts from a pro-socialistic, pro-Leninist viewpoint and sets sail from there to the land of Marx.

I can't stand "tests" that are skewed to force you into a certain viewpoint, especially when it's against your moral fiber or sociological thinking. It reads like something put out by Soros Marketing and World Domination, llc. I admit, I didn't get to the 3rd page - after all, breakfast this morning was good, and I was at grave risk of losing it!

they admit it. check out their AQ page. I also took the other quiz

Possibly libertarian enough to be below the line, but not enough history on how he responds to pressure yet for me to be comfortable with the assumption.

check out their FAQ page. lots of questions regarding why they formulated the questions the way they did is explained. I still had some problems with it. I think Temlakos makes a great point about military.

Pretty well clustered near the economic right, socially middle to libertarian, and 9-10 on the territorial defense only. I can't believe the Republicans expect someone like me to vote for John McLame (a 1 on Temlakos' empire-building axis, definitely not to the right of economic center, and quite authoritarian). Such a person would have to be considered a political enemy.

I would put him near me:

Economic Left/Right: 8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.41
just barely into the bottom right quadrant

that's interesting and certainly a political dynamic we weren't asked any questions on. you should comment to them about that