Political Identity Crisis

Maybe, but that reasoning did not stop Nancy Ronald from consulting charts during Ronald's presidency.

Hillary may be in that quadrant, but I don't believe she would answer most (or at least many) of those questions as indicated in your post. In particular, the questions about sex, abortion, segregation, homosexuality, and taxes don't jibe with what she says during campaign speeches, and I'm not going to speculate on how sincere she is about what she says.So where do you get Ms. Clinton's score from? If your position is accurate, there must be other ways to be authoritarian other than by giving your answers. If true, I think that undercuts the point of your post.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Maybe her position is correctly charted, but I doubt that the website has had Clinton answer their quiz or that they have correctly plotted how she would have answered their quiz. They are assigning her position based on a completely different evaluation. I have no idea how they reached their conclusions.

That's exactly right. You are confirming the exact point I made to Percy. We cannot predict how anyone would answer those questions based on where we put them on the chart.On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that Ted Cruz, for example would match a huge number of the positions Percy selected for him. He might waffle on the strongly agree vs agree, but I think Percy nailed his description and that of some of his fellow Republicans. There is a reason why I challenged him primarily on the basis of Hilary.

What you say here makes no sense.Did you respond to the questions as Percy indicated? If you did, then you would inevitably have received the same score Percy did. If you responded differently, then we have no way to compare your score with Percy's or anyone else's.I speculated that Ted Cruz's answers were similar to Percy's. So your example of your own score is not relevant.

I don't believe it is possible to answer the questions Percy selected in a way consistent with what Ted Cruz says and still get a (1, 0.1). Your claim is that you are just like the Republican candidates and thus the test is wrong. I'm saying that such a thing is impossible. The Republican candidates are not even all alike.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

I said two things. I first said that the answers Percy gave probably did reflect Cruz very well and that his score was probably correct. However I also suggested that those answers might not do a good job of indicating anything and that they likely don't explain why Hilary was plotted where she was.In any event, what I am challenging is your expectation to come up just like Cruz, without giving answers that reflect Cruz's stated positions and obvious tendencies. See below: Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

I'm surely not going to respect that request.

I did not impute the scores to Percy. Percy is only responsible for posting the chart and of course the example questions and reported score associated with them. I don't believe I said anything different from that.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

So you keep saying. I think Cruz has been placed firmly in the correct quadrant, although his distance from the origin seems exaggerated. I also believe that the answers to the questions Percy posted are a reasonable approximation of Cruz. Cruz could never achieve your score on that test.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.