{"id":7865,"date":"2014-06-30T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/30\/pew-research-center-political-typology-quiz\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:13:50","slug":"pew-research-center-political-typology-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/30\/pew-research-center-political-typology-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew Research Center Political Typology Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started to take the quiz<\/a> but then quit in disgust after the first two questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the first question:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Which of the following statements comes closest<\/strong> to your view?<\/span><\/p>\n

I would say that both statements are true.  That some<\/em> government regulation is necessary is obviously<\/em> true.  But that many types of regulation makes things worse is also the case, though it is not as obvious. What does it even mean<\/em> to ask which of these comes closest to my view? The rational thing to do is reject the question as poorly defined.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the second question:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Which of the following statements comes closest<\/strong> to your view?<\/span><\/p>\n

Hard work and determination are no guarantee of success for most.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Again, both of these statements are true, at least in the USA at the present time.  The second statement is obviously<\/em> true.   Success is not guaranteed<\/em> for anyone.  You could be doing everything right and be killed by a drunk driver.  In every success there is some element of luck.  The first statement is not as clearly true, but it too is true.  Again, there is the problem of what 'comes closest' even means<\/em>.  I am a conservative and so you will expect me to plump for the first statement.  But the second is one that every sane person must accept.  So in one sense of 'closest' the second is closest to my view.  In another sense, the first is closest, because it is more characteristic of my view.  A near-certainty that everyone must accept on pain of being irrational is not characteristic<\/em> of any political view. Capiche<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Not all of the question pairs display the faults of the first two.  They display others such as false alternative.  And a few, I grant, are well-formulated.  #20 for example:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Which of the following statements comes closest<\/strong> to your view?<\/span><\/p>\n

These statements cannot both be true, and there is no false alternative: it must be that one of them is true.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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