Political bias test

[Sir Og]

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/10/9188517/political-bias

[Dinner]

I answered 10 out of 18 correctly which is better than 95% of test takers.

[Aeson]

13/88 ... 99%

Not sure what a few of the questions had to do with anything though. Renewable energy growth for instance (which I did get right, but was a guess between 1% and 2%). What's the point of that question? How does it even possibly affect political bias if you are off by 1 or 2% in your estimate?

[My Hubby Loves Civ]

Answered 5/18 correctly, but apparently, that really didn't effect whether I had a political bias. This is what it said:

On a scale of 0-100%, your total political bias was 0%. Great work! About 20% of test takers also got this score. 50% of people get a score between 23% and 58%. The average score is 40.82%.

[Lorizael]

Probably because your wrong answers didn't align with whatever you said your political stance was.

[My Hubby Loves Civ]

True, I did state I was moderately liberal if not neutral. Hmmm. Still not sure if this means whether my answers actually leaned moderately conservate so that it balanced out my bias?

[ricketyclik]

In total, you correctly answered 11/18 (61.11%) of the political knowledge questions. 80% of people correctly answer between 4 and 9 questions; 6 is the average. Your score is higher than 95% of test takers.

I agree with the point about the increase in renewables made by Aeson (I was out by 1%!). I did very poorly indeed on crime, with only one right.

On a scale of 0-100%, your total political bias was 19.44%. Your score suggests you are less biased than about 75% of other test takers. 50% of people get a score between 23% and 58%. The average score is 40.82%.

Edit: I suspect the bias I had is because of the crime thing. I take a soft on crime line, and all the figures I've ever heard in Australia have shown that tough on crime makes no difference, except to the amount of people in jail. The correct test answers were all "The evidence is out". How can that be? Governments have been getting ever tougher on crime my whole life.

[giblets]

In total, you correctly answered 13/18 (72.22%) of the political knowledge questions. 80% of people correctly answer between 4 and 9 questions; 6 is the average. Your score is higher than 99% of test takers.

stupid test

[Aeson]

I agree with the point about the increase in renewables made by Aeson (I was out by 1%!). I did very poorly indeed on crime, with only one right.

You monster! Why are you so biased about the environment!

(Seriously, I don't even know if that would be biased liberal or conservative. A liberal might be biased and think it was less (ITS WAY TOO LITTLE). A conservative might be biased and think it was less (YAY, WE'RE WINNING THE WAR ON NATURE!))

[Sir Og]

In total, you correctly answered 12/18 (66.67%) of the political knowledge questions. 80% of people correctly answer between 4 and 9 questions; 6 is the average. Your score is higher than 99% of test takers.

On a scale of 0-100%, your total political bias was 8.33%. Your score suggests you are less biased than about 75% of other test takers. 50% of people get a score between 23% and 58%. The average score is 40.82%.

I guess the idea to see how you err so that you can see how biased you are is OK. The actual questions and the sample size maybe need more work.

I also guessed wrong the one about renewable energy growth. I thought there was no change due to falling energy prices. Don't know what kind of bias that shows.

[N35t0r]

I'm biased against tests

[DaShi]

12/18 correct.

Political bias is 5.56%.

[N35t0r]

13/18

13.89%.

The two questions on crime caught me (and I admit that I answered based on 'feeling', not knowledge). Then there was the tech companies question (I figured at least Samsung and Siemens would have made the list), US' desirability as emigration destination, and correlation between unemployment benefits and unemployment.

[PLATO]

16/18 (funny enough...the crime questions were the ones I missed as well...)

On a scale of 0-100%, your total political bias was 0%. Great work!

So there my polyfriends.

[Aeson]

You're biased towards accepting consensus