Ontheissues.org VoteMatch Quiz

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by hooskins

A problem with this system is that most scores come from "stongly support" or "strongly oppose", and the areas which make me conservative are areas which I "support". That isn't factored, at least based on what I see.



It makes me seem much more liberal than I actually am.

I'm guessing you're talking about the issues at the bottom of the results page that deal with issues like gun ownership, military spending, school vouchers, and campaign financing. Don't worry they definately count towards the final score. Just to make sure I did a little test with the gun option (something I personally selected oppose but this is just a test).

By taking the default options with "no opinion" selected for everything I got a personal score of 50% and an economic score of 51%. Afterwards I selected "strongly support" on 'absolute right to gun ownership. That did nothing for the personal score but it did increase the economic score to 55%.

I suggest if you feel somethings off, take the quiz a few times and make sure the results are at least similar (technically this is a sampling technique meant to increase reliability). I usually score somewhere near the liberal liberterian corner. Also I found out that I wasn't scoring some of the issues properly so if you're unsure about something check out the hyperlink of the issue when you're taking the quiz to make sure you know what Strongly support, support, oppose, and strongly oppose actually mean within the context of the question.