{"id":241,"date":"2005-09-19T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T01:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2006-04-19T19:28:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T03:28:04","slug":"politics-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/politics-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a political matrix test once a few years ago on where I was politically. I think I was on the extreme side of the liberal spectrum. So I thought I&#8217;d try to find out what&#8217;s changed now. I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcupid.com\/politics\" target=\"_blank\">The Politics Test<\/a> and gave it a try.<\/p>\n<p>Result: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou are a <strong>Social Liberal<\/strong> (70% permissive)<br \/>\nand an <strong>Economic Liberal<\/strong> (16% permissive)<br \/>\nYou are best described as a <strong>Socialist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some charts to go with the result.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/political_matrix1.png\" width=\"282\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Political Matrix result\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/political_matrix2.png\" width=\"282\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Political Matrix result\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/political_matrix3.png\" width=\"282\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Political Matrix result\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moral-politics.com\/xpolitics.aspx?menu=Home\" target=\"_blank\">Another test<\/a> I took shows that I am a <a href=\"\/images\/political_matrix4.png\" target=\"_blank\">Moderate Liberal<\/a>. I guess it all depended on what buttons they pushed during the questionnaire. <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 04\/19\/2006:<\/strong> I took the Moral Politics political test again, and the <a href=\"\/images\/political_matrix5.png\" target=\"_blank\">result this time<\/a> is consistent with the fact that I am a socialist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a political matrix test once a few years ago on where I was politically. I think I was on the extreme side of the liberal spectrum. So I thought I&#8217;d try to find out what&#8217;s changed now. I found this The Politics Test and gave it a try. Result: You are a Social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/19\/politics-and-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politics and I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-politics","category-society-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-3T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}