Stupid test.
I did a political alignment quiz and came out as 70% permissive social liberal, and 81% permissive economic conservative. And that apparently libertarian. I’m sort of okay with that, but I would have rather been placed dead on the capitalist/liberal line.
As always though, some of the questions were dumb and I answered them wrongly. By that I mean one of the questions was:
Being poor and black is an advantage in getting into college.
And I chose “agree”. I realise now that the question was asking “do you think black people get life easier because they’re black?” Which I would have answered “disagree” to. Other questions like that had meanings which weren’t clear, so I answered the question “wrong”.
Anyway, go do the test.
I just edged my way into being a democrat, probably because there were a bunch of questions where I had to agree or disagree because there’s no “(dis)agree, but…” option.
I just took it and showed up as a centrist, just a tick right of center, which is pretty accurate. 55% social moderate/55% economic moderate.
The problem with most of these tests is they’re designed to push people into categories they really don’t fit. They ask misleading questions (as you pointed out) or ask questions for which no “yes/no” answer can be provided. There were questions in this survey that made zero difference to me, I’d have voted “irrelevant” if it had been an option.