8values / 8values.github.io

The 8values political quiz
MIT License
983 stars 409 forks source link

Entire project is devastatingly stupid #99

Closed twome closed 5 years ago

twome commented 5 years ago

Nothing more to be said.

Mikotochan commented 5 years ago

I read this as "I didn't like my results".

twome commented 5 years ago

I didn't even take the test. No, the core assumptions of the project are entirely arbitrary. Most of the quiz's design is utterly nonsensical.

All this quiz determines is what answers people give to this specific quiz. You're either incredibly ignorant about basic sociological/political concepts such as the Overton window, subjectivity/objectivity, test design, and linguistic framing / "leading questions", or you're deliberately being dishonest by disguising your subjective worldview as somehow objective & "testable". You're either a dilettante or a liar, basically – and in whichever case, your blatantly conservative ideology seeps from every pore of this project. This project reads like the work of a STEM-focused high-school student who considers themselves an intellectual titan; "logical", "rational", and "objective". It's amateurish, embarrassing and moronic.