The Authoritarian Test
- Thread starter Laura
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Mine was 27 
Well that was intersting (maybe I'm just feeling particularly cynical).....I tried to pick appart the statements (parts I agreed with while other parts I didn't - applying knowledge of how things have been corrupted by the PTB too) but still ended up with the same score.
Well that was intersting (maybe I'm just feeling particularly cynical).....I tried to pick appart the statements (parts I agreed with while other parts I didn't - applying knowledge of how things have been corrupted by the PTB too) but still ended up with the same score.
ScarletBegonias
Dagobah Resident
I'm 31. I think the test results will have a margin of error based on the varying interpretations of some of the terms.
For example in this question our understanding of "ways" and "values" will vary:
It might be written in the text somewhere, but I wanted to note that here. Hmm 31, huh?
For example in this question our understanding of "ways" and "values" will vary:
It might be written in the text somewhere, but I wanted to note that here. Hmm 31, huh?
truth seeker
The Living Force
I got a 47.
psychegram
The Living Force
I got a 37. But I don't think these numbers are going to mean much, except statistically ... and I'm betting the mean on the forum will be well lower than that of the population as a whole.
Adaryn
The Living Force
I got 73. I think the results can be misleading, due to the interpretation factor (as noted by Altemeyer) - especially if you consider pathology when answering this test. Of course I could have interpreted the questions from the point of view of an authoritarian (like: when it's written "perversion", they probably understand it as homosexuality, unmarried sex and the like), which probably would have lowered my score.
For ex:
I had to moderately disagree here. What if your "sexual preferences" are pedophilia or sadism? Involves physically or psychologically hurting others?
I suppose the old fashioned way is referred here to the way of the US protestant "forefathers". But some people might understand it otherwise according to their own background.
I don't agree with "smashing the perversions", since it doesn't work that way, but it's obvious that "our country" (and the world) is being destroyed partly because of a lack of true "moral fiber" and moral values. The thing is my personal understanding of moral values is certainly quite different from the understanding of it by right-wing authoritarians.
Here again, I'm not 'against' nudist camps, and everybody has free will to go around naked on a beach with other naked people if they want to; but that doesn't mean I think there's "absolutely nothing wrong with it". That'd need to be discussed, I think. Why some people do it, what are their "objectives" doing so, etc.
The thing is I don't think those who attend church regularly as particularly good or virtuous. So how do I answer that question?
Same here:
Well, as we're learning here, most people are not healthy at all, be it lesbians and gays, bisexuals or "straight" people!
First part is of course wrong, but second part is not totally wrong either I think. I was thinking of Alex Jones and other "loud-mouth protestors" who are just disinfo agents.
In short, not so easy and clearcut.
For ex:
I had to moderately disagree here. What if your "sexual preferences" are pedophilia or sadism? Involves physically or psychologically hurting others?
I suppose the old fashioned way is referred here to the way of the US protestant "forefathers". But some people might understand it otherwise according to their own background.
I don't agree with "smashing the perversions", since it doesn't work that way, but it's obvious that "our country" (and the world) is being destroyed partly because of a lack of true "moral fiber" and moral values. The thing is my personal understanding of moral values is certainly quite different from the understanding of it by right-wing authoritarians.
Here again, I'm not 'against' nudist camps, and everybody has free will to go around naked on a beach with other naked people if they want to; but that doesn't mean I think there's "absolutely nothing wrong with it". That'd need to be discussed, I think. Why some people do it, what are their "objectives" doing so, etc.
The thing is I don't think those who attend church regularly as particularly good or virtuous. So how do I answer that question?
Same here:
Well, as we're learning here, most people are not healthy at all, be it lesbians and gays, bisexuals or "straight" people!
First part is of course wrong, but second part is not totally wrong either I think. I was thinking of Alex Jones and other "loud-mouth protestors" who are just disinfo agents.
In short, not so easy and clearcut.
Adaryn
The Living Force
Laura said:
Keit said:
Yeah if you answer the test with the knowledge gathered from this forum, that'll screw the results. But it's also more interesting to answer it when thinking about the world as it is, IMO, and then discuss it; even though that's not the point of this test.
curious_richard
Jedi Master
I got a 55. I saw the word "psychopath" many of the list items, and that affected the results. Here is how I read a few:
10. Our country will be destroyed someday if we do not smash the psychopathy eating away at our moral fiber and traditional beliefs.
17. There are many radical, psychopathic people in our country today, who are trying to ruin it for their own psychopathic purposes, whom the people should put out of action.
22. This country would work a lot better if the psychopaths would just shut up and accept their group's traditional place in a volcano.
10. Our country will be destroyed someday if we do not smash the psychopathy eating away at our moral fiber and traditional beliefs.
17. There are many radical, psychopathic people in our country today, who are trying to ruin it for their own psychopathic purposes, whom the people should put out of action.
22. This country would work a lot better if the psychopaths would just shut up and accept their group's traditional place in a volcano.
