Can TIME Predict Your Politics?

[ashling]

Social scientists find many questions about values and lifestyle that have no obvious connection to politics can be used to predict a person’s ideology. Even a decision as trivial as which browser you’re using to read this article is imbued with clues about your personality. Are you on a Mac or PC? Did you use the default program that came with the computer or install a new one?

In the following interactive, we put together 12 questions that have a statistical correlation to a person’s political leanings, even if the questions themselves are seemingly apolitical. At the end of this (completely anonymous) quiz, we’ll use your responses to guess your politics.



Read more: Personality Quiz: Can TIME Guess Your Politics? | TIME.com http://science.time.com/2014/01/09/can-time-predict-your-politics/#ixzz2q7fx5KhI

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Mine showed 97% Liberal and 3% Conservative . . . but that was only because I obsess over marking moderately agree/disagree or strongly agree/disagree because I don't want to be untruthful, so that probably cancels out the 3% conservative.

[RandySF]

1. Mine was way off

There were too many on which I did not agree or disagree.

[ashling]

2. Yeah, I was most conflicted over

the cat's and dogs question

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. 16% conservative. Hmm. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

4. You're 68% conservative, 32% liberal.

So, no. But it's probably because I said I liked porn, action movies and wanting to visit Times Square over the museum.

I thought that just made me American.

[angstlessk]

10. Back in the day visiting Times Square might have made you more liberal

but now that it has been 'cleaned up'..it is now just one big shopping mall that happens to be outside.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. I've never been. I think it'd be cool to see. Not that I wouldn't want to see the museum, either.

But I don't know. I hate liberal/conservative stereotypes on how we should and shouldn't act.

That's the fallacy with something like this - it assumes we all think alike.

[angstlessk]

13. I Agree...because I was very moderate..and it seems it makes no difference

weather I was adamant or just moderate..it put me in the liberal side...so it did not do nuance..

WHICH LIBERALS DO! (lol)

[Drunken Irishman]

16. Exactly. Liberals aren't supposed to see the world in black & white...!

lol

[WhiteTara]

15. I lost a lot of liberal stripes because I don't like porn.

[LiberalElite]

5. 77% liberal, 23% conservative -

there's something wrong there...

[Still Sensible]

6. Not close. n/t

[curlyred]

7. Pretty close

83% liberal, 17% conservative...because I keep a tidy desk?!? What the heck.

[angstlessk]

9. That tidy desk is a dead givaway...faschist!!!!!!!!!

I forgot..in case I get bonked for being disrespectful

[angstlessk]

8. You're 9% conservative, 91% liberal

I must too moderate in too many places?

My Conservative side:

You think the government should treat the lives of its citizens as much more valuable than those of other countries

[curlyred]

18. I stand revealed

good thing they didn't ask about my paperclips.

[chieftain]

12. 79 % Liberal, 21 % conservative.

I attribute my score to the impact of schooling by nuns and Jesuits. It imbued a strong social consciousness along side a too well developed respect for authority.

[pintobean]

14. I'm 37% conservative, 63% liberal.

[TheKentuckian]

17. You're 15% conservative, 85% liberal.

Maybe, maybe not but not because I tend toward action movies over documentaries.

Some of the reasoning borders on silliness and seems terribly policy agnostic in coming to conclusions.

[Vashta Nerada]

19. 3% conservative because I prefer dogs over cats?

[ashling]

20. Me too

as I said, I get obsessed with distinctions between these answers because I don't want to be untruthful - which cancels out the 3% Conservative.

Anyway, I guess that makes us the most liberal here!