> > LOL. I didn't even realize this before; my co-worker pointed it out. The last question on the political compass survey is "It's fine for society to be open about sex, but these days it's going too far. (Agree or disagree?)"
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> > Because of the compound nature of the sentence, if you disagree, you might be disagreeing with the first part *or* the second part, and depending on which, you might be at one extreme or another. I have no clue how the survey scores that answer, but it's gotta be wrong in some cases.
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> I don't get it. You must agree to both premises to agree to the proposition as a whole, right? If you feel that either is incorrect, you disagree. I agree with the first half and disagree with the second, and as such disagreed with the entire proposition. I don't see how somebody who supported the second half and not the first could agree to it, either.
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> Stephen

That, and, I can hardly imagine someone thinking it's not okay to be open about sex, but thinking society *hasn't* gone too far in that direction. So in that case, there's not a huge problem... but questions phrased like that are generally troublesome, and I agree that some of the other questions were sketchy. A lot of the trouble I had was when they gave a simplistic question and expected a simplistic answer... like with the mother-career-homemaker question. Also a lot of the economic ones. All that said, the test did put me exactly where I expected to be, though I was pretty close to the center.

Lire"lib right... and by the way, I found it interesting that not a single one of the 'globally known figures' appeared in that quadrant"lyn