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Do you have what it takes ?

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:22
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Monday, July 16, 2007 12:33 PM

FREMDFIRMA


To be an Anti-Federalist ?

Stumbled across this widget this morning, it uses actual historic arguments and original text.

http://www.ushistoryplace.com/learning/federalism/intro.html

Let's see where ya REALLY stand, ehe ?
I dare ya.

-F

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Monday, July 16, 2007 1:33 PM

FREDGIBLET


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
To be an Anti-Federalist ?



Apparently no, I scored a 50-50.

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Monday, July 16, 2007 1:35 PM

FLETCH2


Quote:

Originally posted by fredgiblet:
Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
To be an Anti-Federalist ?



Apparently no, I scored a 50-50.



Tyrant! I apparently scored 60/40 AntiFed, can't help thinking that's biased....

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Monday, July 16, 2007 2:02 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL


Somehow I ended up squarely in the anti-federalists camp with a 70/30.



Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Monday, July 16, 2007 5:23 PM

LEADB


80/20 firmly into anti federalist territory, which rather surprises me. I suspect it's a growing lack of trust with what the feds are doing these days.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:35 AM

FREDGIBLET


Quote:

Originally posted by leadb:
I suspect it's a growing lack of trust with what the feds are doing these days.



I suspect it's a poorly designed test.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:38 AM

FLETCH2


Quote:

Originally posted by fredgiblet:
Quote:

Originally posted by leadb:
I suspect it's a growing lack of trust with what the feds are doing these days.



I suspect it's a poorly designed test.



I suspect it's actually deliberately biased. In getting 60/40 I deliberately answered some questions "wrong" ie took a line that was excessively authoritarian.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:44 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


If it takes a jaundiced view of politicians, a cynical view of commercial enterprises and a complete lack of faith in "the people" then count me in.

Statistically, I'm 50/50. I somewhat dispute the categorization of the answers, because (for example) while I believe the Presidency will become a singular ruler (simply because of the mechanics of dividing power among 50 Senators and 425 Representatives makes them less efficient than a "Unitary Executive") I think he SHOULD be liable to impeachment. But answering the impeachment question affirmatively places me more in the "Federalist" camp.

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Always look upstream.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:47 AM

FREDGIBLET


Quote:

Originally posted by Fletch2:
I suspect it's actually deliberately biased.



I don't think so, I think that the problem is that they are using quotes from those papers to make the test when they weren't intended for that purpose. The problem being that some of the quotes can be misinterpreted, there was more than one where I'm fairly sure that my reasoning and the reasoning of the author are different and produce different answers from the same statement.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:37 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Fred, I noticed that too, this one seems oversimplified and the sampling is far too small, imop - if I knew anything worthwhile about HTML or related stuff, I could roll out a much better one.

I also suspect the designers grasp of the related history isn't as firm as he thinks, there's much better quotes that could have been used.

Still I found it a thought provoking waste of a couple minutes.

-F

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:14 PM

FREDGIBLET


There are sites that let you put in questions and make quizzes without knowing anything about HTML.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:22 PM

FLETCH2


Quote:

Originally posted by fredgiblet:
There are sites that let you put in questions and make quizzes without knowing anything about HTML.



Yes, but how you then score the result can be biased.

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