New Survey -- what is your Worldview type?

Worldview Questionnaire - Institute for Cultural Evolution

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Worldview Questionnaire

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What is your worldview? Take this 7 minute test and find out which values frame describes you best

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This questionnaire has been developed by academic researchers. By answering these 17 questions you may learn more about your own worldview, as well as about the worldviews of others. The test has been shown to produce fairly consistent and interesting results. Your answers will indicate which of the four major cultural worldviews (defined below) describes you best, as well as the worldview to which you are most opposed. After taking this short confidential questionnaire your results will be immediately sent to your email address.

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Take the Test

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About the Worldview Questionnaire

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This worldview test is primarily the brainchild of integral researcher Annick de Witt. In her research, De Witt used both qualitative (interviews) and quantitative methods, including large-scale surveys with representative samples of citizens in the Netherlands and the USA. Her aim in developing the test was to create an empirical, social science approach to mapping worldviews.

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Her research confirmed the existence of at least four major worldview-groups in the Western world, which she describes as traditional, modern, postmodern, and integrative. The existence of these worldview-groups has also been confirmed by work in sociology, the history of philosophy, and developmental psychology. These worldview-groups differ significantly in their political preferences, their attitudes towards climate change, the sustainability of their lifestyles, as well as their positions in ‘hot’ societal debates such as on the role of biotechnology.

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So take the test and see what you get.Enjoy

Curiously I thought I was pretty pro-science but got this result:

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Worldview you identify with most: Postmodern (+7)

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Worldview you identify with least: Traditional (-12)

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Postmodern worldviews

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Postmodern worldviews are characterized by a tendency to acknowledge and value multiple perspectives on reality, and are generally critical of modern science's claim to exclusively provide objective knowledge. This worldview instead emphasizes the relativity and contextuality of knowledge, as well as the value of moral, emotional, and artistic ways of knowing. Frequently a somewhat critical attitude towards the modern model of society (e.g., ideas of progress, modern science and technology, capitalism) is observed, and the emancipation of marginalized and oppressed groups is a central motivation. This is for example reflected in the rise of social movements since the 1960’s, promoting peace, multiculturalism, gay rights, and the environment, among others. Generally, postmodern worldviews celebrate diversity, heterogeneity, relativism, and 'post-materialistic' or 'self-expression' values such as creativity, uniqueness, authenticity, imagination, feeling, and intuition.

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Traditional worldviews

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In traditional worldviews the religious sphere is generally not distinguished from the secular sphere, nor is metaphysics from science. Religious or metaphysical views on reality thus answer the big questions in life, and substantial faith is placed in religious authorities, such as scriptures, doctrines, and leaders. In this worldview, a transcendent God is usually seen as separate from the profane, earthly world, and man as fundamentally different from nature. The relationship with nature is frequently understood in terms of ‘dominion’ or ‘stewardship’. Traditional worldviews tend to emphasize the importance of family and community, as well as values ​​such as honesty, decency, sobriety, obedience, discipline, solidarity, conformity, service, dedication, respect for tradition, humility, and self-sacrifice.

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"The least" I would agree with."The most" I would say is about half true. I'll take it again and see if I can get different results.Enjoy

So I tried for second best and second worst to see what result I would get:

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Worldview you identify with most: Modern (3)

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Worldview you identify with least: Postmodern (-6)

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Modern worldviews

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Modern worldviews attempt to achieve liberation from imposed, oppressive, frequently religious, authorities and understandings of the past, through an emphasis on rationality and critical thinking. The vision of reality tends to be secular and materialistic: the existence of a higher power, divine reality, or intangible dimension is generally rejected. Science is frequently seen as the ultimate (and even exclusive) source of reliable knowledge, providing access to objective reality. This 'objectification' of reality generates a dualism between body and mind, and object and subject, which tends to lead to immense scientific, technological, and socio-economic progress as well as an instrumentalization of nature. Science and technology are generally seen as central means to address humanity’s most pressing issues. The autonomous, ‘self-made’ individual has a central position in this worldview. Individualistic and hedonistic valuessuch as fre edom, in dependence, success, performance, social recognition, comfort, and funare usually dominant.

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Postmodern worldviews (same as before)

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So now I am both postmodern and anti-postmodern ... So I'm wondering what the "integrative" is -- new age touchy feely?Enjoy

Yes, a lot of it seemed very "new age touchy-feely" stuff. I wonder how many scientists were involved in the original studies to determine the categories of worldview.Reading the descriptions I did not see one that really fit me. As such it seems like a sad indictment of the state of science in the us.Enjoy

Well I have an email address that I keep for spam and webpage polls etc.I can then look at the results and ignore all the penis enlargement emails

How you view the world, the sum of your knowledge and hopes and beliefs:

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A comprehensive world view or worldview is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the entirety of the individual or society's knowledge and point of view. A world view can include natural philosophy; fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics.[1] The term is a calque of the German word Weltanschauung [ˈvɛlt.ʔanˌʃaʊ.ʊŋ] ( listen), composed of Welt ('world') and Anschauung ('view' or 'outlook')[2] The German word is also used in English.

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It is a concept fundamental to German philosophy and epistemology and refers to a wide world perception. Additionally, it refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs forming a global description through which an individual, group or culture watches and interprets the world and interacts with it.

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Weltanschauung and cognitive philosophy

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One of the most important concepts in cognitive philosophy and cognitive sciences is the German concept of Weltanschauung.[citation needed] This expression has often been used to refer to the "wide worldview" or "wide world perception" of a people, family, or person.[citation needed] The Weltanschauung of a people originates from the unique world experience of a people, which they experience over several millennia.[citation needed] The language of a people reflects the Weltanschauung of that people in the form of its syntactic structures and untranslatable connotations and its denotations.

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The interactions of worldview and language shows how beliefs color interpretations of some words, and this can explain some of the different reactions of people to words, why some words are "dog-whistle" terms or "trigger words" that connect to their worldview in specific ways.Enjoy