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Socialist

16 (32%)

Green

8 (16%)

Peace and Freedom

2 (4%)

Democratic

1 (2%)

Transhumanist

11 (22%)

Libertarian

8 (16%)

Republican

2 (4%)

Constitution

2 (4%)

Total Members Voted: 49

[wierd]

I approached it from the "Somebody who is extremely ignorant of the medical state of the art" perspective, and said "Strongly disagree".

Tissue engineering is rapidly becoming a thing. Cultured genitals from harvested skin cells could well be a REAL thing in 20 years**. That means "Real, working genitalia for transgender people". (Going female->male might be more difficult, as they would need a donor chromosome, but they have a dad, and that is the ideal person to harvest one from. That is a very small hurdle to jump over in perspective.)

Given that they used the absurd word 'never', It is either extreme hubris, or extreme ignorance.  I prefer to consider people ignorant.

**

Spoiler: A short list of articles to help explain my position here (click to show/hide)

https://phys.org/news/2016-04-scientists-skin-cells-human-sperm.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2109305-eggs-made-from-skin-cells-in-lab-could-herald-end-of-infertility/
(And this with the above, makes things even more interesting.)
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/human-eggs-maturity/
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609677/will-artificial-ovaries-mean-no-more-menopause/

etc.

As for the second one, I put "neutral/difficult to say".  There is evidence of hereditary predisposition toward rape in chimpanzees. (Obligatory article) Humans are close evolutionary cousins of chimps, so the possibility that a specific, individual man may have a hereditary predisposition toward rape could well be true. This does not cognate that all men are rapacious sex fiends, however. They did say "Partly."  There is enough grey there that I cannot just handwave it; What I can say, is that we have a very large neocortex for a reason, and that organ's function is explicitly to override the biochemistry of the limbic and endocrine systems. In other words, you need to have a serious disorder before I will accept that "Muh manliness made me do it ociffer!" is a truly legitimate answer, and that the person really was incapable of controlling themselves. (In other words, I can see it being a contributing factor, but I dont give it enough weight to reduce sentence.)

[hector13]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?m0=76&m1=14&b0=83&b1=5&s0=93&e0=55&e1=26&p0=88&p1=5&t1=31&t0=38&femi=76&c0=74&c1=17&prag=100&j0=88&j1=5&anar=100

Fuck conservatives, apparently. 93% progressivism, 7% neutral on that scale.

Tried to answer as many questions “absolutely” as possible, which explains that as well as the long bars in the other categories too.

My additional characteristics paint me as a pragmatic anarchist. A’ight.

[Haspen]

Decided to take the test again, after reading above posts and it seemed to me I understood couple questions wrong (don't take political tests past midnight).

So ta-da!

Spoiler: Old one (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Today (click to show/hide)

Not that much change tbh. Except that Communism/Regulationism boost.

[scriver]

I got SOCIALISM. ECOLOGY. JUSTICE.

There were a bunch of questions I had trouble understanding. For example, the question about prisoners bring accompanied back after their sentence. Would that mean help establishing themselves, or stuff like watching over and ankle bracelets and what not?

Not to mention that I probably would have answered differently if a lot of questions were stated as less absolute.

[Bumber]

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?p0=67&s0=52&s1=17&m0=67&m1=10&c0=26&c1=38&t0=26&t1=36&femi=19&j1=17&j0=45&e1=48&e0=26&b1=21&b0=40&prag=67

Odd questions:
"Health should stay a public matter" - Healthcare? Or do everybody's illnesses need to be made public knowledge?
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." - I would be rather worried if a human gave birth to a full-grown woman. Maybe it's a translation issue.

[Teneb]

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." - I would be rather worried if a human gave birth to a full-grown woman. Maybe it's a translation issue.

Pretty sure this one is about gender identity. As in, if you took a biologically female human and everyone treated them as a man for their entire life, would they be a woman?

[Baffler]

It's a quote from Simone de Beauvoir. She was saying that female humans (weird to say) become 'women' as it is popularly understood by education rather than an innate personal attraction to 'femininity.' It's from her book 'The Second Sex' which is widely credited as a foundational work of second-wave feminism.

[Spehss _]

Odd questions:
"Health should stay a public matter" - Healthcare? Or do everybody's illnesses need to be made public knowledge?
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." - I would be rather worried if a human gave birth to a full-grown woman. Maybe it's a translation issue.

I answered both of those as neutral. I figured if the question isn't clear enough for me to understand what they're asking it's not clear enough for me to accurately state my stance towards it.

[Cruxador]

I compiled complaints from here together with my own and posted them here: https://github.com/RadicaliseesSurInternet/politiscales/issues/14

Please comment there if you have anything to add. I omitted the bit about the de Beauvoir quote, but I'm not confident I did correctly to do so since it is a source of confusion; if I missed anything else that was an unintentional error.

As for my own results, I got a solid green flag. Not sure if this thing is insinuating that I agree with Gaddafi but since I answered far more capitalist than he would, I think that's not the case. And I very much don't prefer a permanent revolutionary government over a democratic one or over the monarchy that preceded him.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The brain at the bottom is pragmatism.

As for the results, I'm not sure how accurate they are. I don't think I'm particularly essentialist, but rather, the questions were asked in such a way that an acknowledgement that both play a role was counted as an essentialist vote. I don't recall any questions that meaningfully contrasted rehabilitative and punitive justice at all, and it may be that I picked the neutral option for each of them due to ambiguity. This is a common issue for me, but I support the notion of distinct nations within a greater international community, and it seems like most of these are designed around the notion that your nation is the only part of the world you interface with and you expect everything else to be seen through a mono-national lens. In this case, the questions were arranged such that this slanted me towards nationalism. I think the communism/capitalism is how it is because of a lack of questions dealing with the middle ground, or I'd be less skewed, and likewise would be more regulationist.

I answered both of those as neutral. I figured if the question isn't clear enough for me to understand what they're asking it's not clear enough for me to accurately state my stance towards it.

I employed this methodology as well.

[Gentlefish]

For fun, I decided to see if this had any bias towards any one side through "agree/disagree".

Result of all strong positives:
http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?j1=50&j0=50&p1=50&p0=50&c1=50&c0=50&t0=50&t1=50&s1=50&s0=50&m1=50&m0=50&femi=43&b1=50&b0=50&mona=100&prag=100&e1=50&e0=50&reli=100&anar=100&vega=100&comp=100

Result of all strong negatives:
http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?j1=50&j0=50&b0=50&b1=50&c1=50&c0=50&e1=50&e0=50&t1=50&t0=50&m1=50&m0=50&p0=50&p1=50&femi=57&s1=50&s0=50

This shouldn't be a surprise but it's completely balanced the "agree/disagree"s for a fairly neutrally posited test. The only difference is the tokens at the bottom; they all require positive responses.

[A Thing]

So I found a Vampire the Masquerade quiz. I mean, it looks like it's from 2002 but I think we've done worse.

http://www.wyrmworld.com/interactive/camarilla/camarilla.html

I fully expect for there to be a lot of Malks here.

[smjjames]

For number 1, I chose platypus for the lulz and because I can't decide otherwise.

For number 9, I chose this one: "Stare deeply into their eyes and murmur "This isn't the apartment you're looking for"" lol!

Got Tremere the first go at 43%

After trying to make things less 'treacherous', also made it more silly... Still tremere, something is weighting it heavily towards that.

[Cruxador]

So I found a Vampire the Masquerade quiz. I mean, it looks like it's from 2002

Dated web design aside, there's a question involving a CD store. It also very clearly has one option per possible outcome in each question, not all of which make any sense at all. I definitely think that our standards for online quizzes should be higher these days.

I got gangrel at 43%.

[Spehss _]

Ventrue at 43%. No idea what that means, I'm not familiar with VTM.

_{^{That color contrast is awful.}}

[A Thing]

Ventrue at 43%. No idea what that means, I'm not familiar with VTM.

_{^{That color contrast is awful.}}

So you're telling me you don't love edgy blood red and black? It's what's in style with all the cool vamps, dude.
_{Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodline's UI would likely kill you.}

As for the quality of the quiz, the idea of looking for a VTM quiz just came to mind and it was the first one available. I didn't do too much investigation on the matter.