Identity Crisis

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to prove I can write a short post: According to this survey, I am Charles Kennedy. My British relative approves. According to this one, I am “red” Ken Livingstone, which he says is “all right, if you don’t mind being completely f—— insane.” According to this, I write like a man. (It’s not close, either.) I’m sort of skeptical of all three results.

11 thoughts on “Identity Crisis”

  1. I’m Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Jacques Chirac. (What, all at once? Yes, apparently so.) Which is to say that I’m in the bottom right-hand corner:
    Economic Left/Right: -8.50
    Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38
    I think last time I took this test my numbers weren’t quite so extreme. I must be a little angrier now. I can’t think why.

  3. On the first link, I scored +3.4 right, 1.9 up.
    On the other +2.7 right, 2.02 up
    I write like long winded old man. Because I are one…
    Sorry, Jesurgislac, not quite a counterbalance but close (:

  4. 1st : -0.09, +0.73
    2d: -0.50, -1.44
    3d: male! (the ! was part of the survey response)
    I guess this makes me a centrist? Actually, I choose to believe that my views in some areas cancel out my views in others. Which is why I am a registered Independent.

  5. “Jean Chretien, not Jacques Chirac! Damn, why can’t you edit blog comments?”
    Because there’s something pure about blog comments. No deniability. 🙂
    Anyway…
    left/right +1.7747 (+0.1068)
    pragmatism +4.0233 (+0.2422)
    …on the first test, which puts me almost directly opposite Josef Stalin on the idealism / pragmatism line. I somehow suspect that this test may be using somewhat different criteria for left/right of center than I do. 🙂
    And according to the second (Economic Left/Right: 4.88, Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.28) I’m all by myself in the bottom Right corner. No kidding… 🙂

  8. Von, you’re very almost exactly between me and Moe on each axis.
    (my actual numbers:
    libertarian/authoritarian: -4.92
    economic left/right: -2.75)
    I think it’s actually a pretty lousy test as far as the questions though. What on earth does astrology have to do with anything?
    And I think they’re way off on their placement of most of the politicians.

  9. I think the complete lack of context makes most of the questions worthless. I mean, the patriotism question for example: certainly being born in your country of birth is an act over which you have no control, so patriotism for that sole reason might be silly — but who says despite that you can’t conclude that your country has value and make your decision accordning to that? This thing offers no such qualifiers. Just too sloppy of an exercise to be of any value, I think.

  10. Agree on the poor quality of the surveys. lack of context was an issue, as well as result shaping by virtue of phrasing and leading. To accurately measure results would have, IMO, required a deal more subtlety and shading. Of course, that would have removed it from the realm of pop, wouldn’t it? Or are these reults supposed to surface in someone’s “learned” thesis at some point? If so, pretty shabby construction and, hence, unreliable results. IMO. Hope no one here was involved.
    But something fun to do on a Saturday evening at home with the kids.

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