Do you have what it takes ?

POSTED BY: Fremdfirma
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 22:22
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FREMDFIRMA

Monday, July 16, 2007 10:33 PM

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

FREDGIBLET

Monday, July 16, 2007 11:33 PM

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

Apparently no, I scored a 50-50.

FLETCH2

Monday, July 16, 2007 11:35 PM

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Originally posted by fredgiblet:
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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....

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:02 AM

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

LEADB

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:23 AM

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.

FREDGIBLET

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:35 PM

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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.

FLETCH2

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:38 PM

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Originally posted by fredgiblet:
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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.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:44 PM

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.

FREDGIBLET

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:47 PM

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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.

FREMDFIRMA

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:37 PM

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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