Online Political Party Quiz's and Calculators?

Question

When I was younger, I was not sure which political party I belonged to and I wanted to know. This was before I was voting age. I went online and took a political party quiz. It asked me a series of questions on what I thought about the size of government, taxes, abortion, immigration, natural security, debt. I answered truthfully and the quiz returned Republican. 

I know now that I am a very conservative person. I attend a Baptist church weekly, think global warming is a myth, think the 2nd amendment means what it says, this government is too big, taxes are too high, socialism is evil, and I love conservative talk radio. 

In the last few days I have taken a number of these political party calculator quiz's and the thing that always shocks me is this: You can never finish the quiz as a republican. I have taken numerous online quizzes and have finished as a Libertarian 3 times a moderate more times than I can remember, and an independent dozens of times. A few of them even had the audacity to call me slightly left. 

Are these quizzes crooked or what? My concern is, are new young voters possibly using the results of these quizzes to discern their political affiliation. They take these quiz's and are told they are moderates or independents or slightly liberal. You just can't seem to get the word 'conservative' out of these quizzes. I think the results of these are bent and if people use them to affiliate themselves with a party they may be being misled.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Yes. Most of the quizes you find online are biased. Skewed in both the way they ask questions, and in the way they interpret results. They are manipulated and put out mainly by the Libertarian Party as recruiting tools.

The most well-known such quiz is the "Political Compass." That one is definitely riddled with problems and bias. It is essentially a "push poll."

Personally, the "best" one I've found is here: http://www.isidewith.com/ Although, I think it may be biased to make test-takers seem slightly more liberal than they really are.

(The main problem with the isidewith test, is that if you have an issue and no candidate matches your opinions, then that issue is just factored out of the results...even if it's the issue you rate as "most important.")

James · Answer

The media scares me more than those quizzes you mentioned. Not only is pop culture nearly 100% liberal but almost every news show is biased, and they usually represent the democratic party. What is even worse is that Fox News, the only news network that even attempts to not spin a story, has been labeled by the liberal media as being the most biased network. 

The presidential election has basically turned into the worlds biggest popularity contest. Obama didn't win the first time for his politics I can tell you that. He won because a major turnout of people who have never voted before showed up to polls because it became "popular" to vote, why? Because the liberal media portrayed him as God's gift to Earth, they even compared him to Lincoln before he came into office. He also won a Nobel Peace Prize for no reason other than making a bunch of promises that he still hasn't fulfilled.

Mark · Answer

Of course the questions included in those quizzes are often based on the bias of the person who composed the quiz. I've taken one before as well, and I distinctly remember thinking, as I took the quiz, that several questions obviously have *nothing* to do with what we want government to do. One quiz I took about 4-5 months ago asked whether we agree or disagree that sometimes parents have to spank their children, and whether we think abstract art deserves to really be called art at all.

jerilyn · Answer

A phrase of caution about this type of quiz, the are frequently designed to guide the quiz taker to a precise outcome. Do some heritage on the organization which posts the quiz and will you continually discover a robust political connection. The questions that are asked, and the manner wherein they are worded, push the quiz taker closer to a predetermined end result.

Anonymous · Answer

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Online Political Party Quiz's and Calculators?

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