Comments on: America’s Quiz: Are you a conservative? http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36981/ The Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment Wed, 22 May 2013 14:46:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Antonio TopDog http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36981/#comment-247351 Antonio TopDog Wed, 08 May 2013 03:19:00 +0000 /content/articles/article/none/36981/#comment-247351 My wife just took the quiz & she is the same as me. My wife just took the quiz & she is the same as me.

]]> By: Antonio TopDog http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36981/#comment-247350 Antonio TopDog Wed, 08 May 2013 03:18:00 +0000 /content/articles/article/none/36981/#comment-247350 I always have called myself a conservative, however, after taking the quiz it shows I am a Libertarian right leaning toward Conservative. Interesting :) I always have called myself a conservative, however, after taking the quiz it shows I am a Libertarian right leaning toward Conservative. Interesting :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36981/#comment-179951 Anonymous Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:54:00 +0000 /content/articles/article/none/36981/#comment-179951 The test seems to be exceptionally fair and accurate.   Says I am liberal with very libertarian leanings....pretty accurate in the current climate.  I was a centrist, but everybody shifted to the right over the last decade or so (and i stayed still). The test seems to be exceptionally fair and accurate.   Says I am liberal with very libertarian leanings….pretty accurate in the current climate.  I was a centrist, but everybody shifted to the right over the last decade or so (and i stayed still).

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36981/#comment-21429 Anonymous Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:28:00 +0000 /content/articles/article/none/36981/#comment-21429 I thought I was a conservative libertarian but the quiz says I'm a centrist with liberal leanings....lol.... I thought I was a conservative libertarian but the quiz says I’m a centrist with liberal leanings….lol….

]]> By: Walt Thiessen http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36981/#comment-6516 Walt Thiessen Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:16:00 +0000 /content/articles/article/none/36981/#comment-6516 I can assure you that the quiz is not rigged. I wrote it. Instead, what's happening here is that what you are associating as conservative positions are actually libertarian positions. This is not an uncommon mistake to make, since "conservative" is used by many people to represent a wide range of viewpoints from very pro-freedom to very anti-freedom. You can see at http://www.nolanchart.com/surveytotals.php which answers are the conservative answers. Study them, and you'll notice that they're not really closer to the libertarian answers than they are to the statist answers. The survey answers represent and summarize those answers given on the various topics by actual leading conservative politicians and thinkers. No survey offering just four answers to every topic/question can possibly and perfectly represent all viewpoints, and this series of 10 questions is no different. Instead, what the survey accurately does is to represent each of the four camps as accurately as possible in a way that distinguishes each camp from the others as much as possible. At some point, we plan to add a fifth, centrist answer to each set of answers, but that's a back-burner project at this point. I can assure you that the quiz is not rigged. I wrote it. Instead, what’s happening here is that what you are associating as conservative positions are actually libertarian positions. This is not an uncommon mistake to make, since “conservative” is used by many people to represent a wide range of viewpoints from very pro-freedom to very anti-freedom.

You can see at http://www.nolanchart.com/surveytotals.php which answers are the conservative answers. Study them, and you’ll notice that they’re not really closer to the libertarian answers than they are to the statist answers.

The survey answers represent and summarize those answers given on the various topics by actual leading conservative politicians and thinkers.

No survey offering just four answers to every topic/question can possibly and perfectly represent all viewpoints, and this series of 10 questions is no different. Instead, what the survey accurately does is to represent each of the four camps as accurately as possible in a way that distinguishes each camp from the others as much as possible.

At some point, we plan to add a fifth, centrist answer to each set of answers, but that’s a back-burner project at this point.

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