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Offline thundley4

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How progressive are you?
« on: September 15, 2010, 09:11:43 PM »
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HarveyDarkey   (889 posts)             Wed Sep-15-10 09:43 PM
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My score was 352, what's yours?
   
Edited on Wed Sep-15-10 09:49 PM by HarveyDarkey
Should have been higher, but I misread a couple of questions (it doesn't allow you to change your response).

On edit: response to my first response, oversight on my part.

Center for American Progress : Interactive Quiz: How Progressive Are You?
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/progressive_quiz.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9142778

Here's my results:
107/400 very conservative average score for Americans is 209.5

Not one of the Damn Dummies was even close to the average.  However since this is from a liberal website, I doubt the validity of the 209 average.
 
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Offline Celtic Rose

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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2010, 09:27:12 PM »
114, but some of the questions were worded very poorly.  Conservative Republicans apparently score 160 on average, so I don't know what that makes me  :uhsure: 
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2010, 09:29:14 PM »
122/400


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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2010, 09:32:43 PM »
OMG! :lmao: this is my score:

Your ideological score is
66/400
This makes you extremely
conservative. The average score for
Americans is 209.5
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2010, 09:36:49 PM »
42/400.  You were saying about "hammers" you liberal panty waist?

Bitchslap for being such a poofter wannabe statist socialist, dutch.
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2010, 09:42:29 PM »
121/400.

 I must have been too generous in the food stamps answer. :lmao:

Actually I was selecting 2's and 9's and not 1's and 10's. I gave the benefit of doubt to the truly poor among us.
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2010, 09:50:22 PM »
Oh well hell.....

Your ideological score is
93/400
This makes you extremely
conservative. The average score for
Americans is 209.5

And I consider myself more of a libertarian than most on this board.  WTF????
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2010, 09:51:01 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on September 15, 2010, 09:42:29 PM
121/400.

 I must have been too generous in the food stamps answer. :lmao:

Actually I was selecting 2's and 9's and not 1's and 10's. I gave the benefit of doubt to the truly poor among us.

I gave some 1's and 9's out, but there were just some questions that I felt strongly about that I had to give a 0 or a 10 out, and a few questions I gave a 2 and 3 out, I think I had a 5 for 1 answer.
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2010, 09:51:33 PM »
Oh, and all you people over 100? you RINO's! :-)
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2010, 09:57:14 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on September 15, 2010, 09:51:33 PM
Oh, and all you people over 100? you RINO's! :-)

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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2010, 10:02:58 PM »
98/400
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2010, 10:15:44 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on September 15, 2010, 09:51:33 PM
Oh, and all you people over 100? you RINO's! :-)

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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2010, 10:43:54 PM »
108/400.

Quote from: Ballygrl on September 15, 2010, 09:51:33 PM
Oh, and all you people over 100? you RINO's! :-)

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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2010, 10:48:31 PM »
39/400
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2010, 10:57:35 PM »
52/400.  Curse my bleeding heart.  :banghead:
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2010, 11:39:47 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on September 15, 2010, 09:27:12 PM
114, but some of the questions were worded very poorly.  Conservative Republicans apparently score 160 on average, so I don't know what that makes me  :uhsure: 

Yeah, the one I thought was incredibly misleading was the one about immigrants. I think LEGAL immigrants are an asset to the country (especially since they're willing to work hard to achieve the American dream). ILLEGAL aliens (they aren't immigrants) are a drain.

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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2010, 11:45:10 PM »
40/400. 
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2010, 11:47:32 PM »
Quote from: delilahmused on September 15, 2010, 11:39:47 PM
Yeah, the one I thought was incredibly misleading was the one about immigrants. I think LEGAL immigrants are an asset to the country (especially since they're willing to work hard to achieve the American dream). ILLEGAL aliens (they aren't immigrants) are a drain.

Cindie

I believe that was question #20.  There was no good way to answer that question the way it was worded.
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2010, 11:59:38 PM »
Quote from: delilahmused on September 15, 2010, 11:39:47 PM
Yeah, the one I thought was incredibly misleading was the one about immigrants. I think LEGAL immigrants are an asset to the country (especially since they're willing to work hard to achieve the American dream). ILLEGAL aliens (they aren't immigrants) are a drain.

Cindie

Yep, that was one I had issues with.  Like most progressives, the quiz had issues with scale and individual situations.  I was more generous on some questions because, for example, I don't necessarily mind the government helping the truly destitute, but the way the question was worded, they either helped all the "poor" or none.
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2010, 12:06:43 AM »
DUmmie stats:

122 PARTICIPANTS

MEAN:  344.3525

RANGE: 166  (MINIMUM 230 MAXIMUM 396)

MODE:  351 (OCCURING FIVE TIMES)

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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #20 on: September 16, 2010, 12:32:17 AM »
87/400
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2010, 04:53:41 AM »
57/400
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2010, 07:34:02 AM »
104/400.

I think we need a purge here!

 :-)

I agreed that the government is doing too much to promote religion...the religion it's promoting, of course, is manmade global warming.

Some of those questions were a bit obtuse.
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2010, 07:59:24 AM »
91/400 ----- guess I need to go back to Conservative school to get the score lower  :hammer:
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Re: How progressive are you?
« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2010, 08:00:35 AM »
67/400.  Oh well. :innocent:
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