Some of you (OK so like... three of you) may remember the last time I ran a survey on political values; I was really happy with the responses everybody gave me at TheMotte, and now a few other people I know who post on Substack are wanting to use the results to answer some questions of their own. So long story short, here's another poll:
Don't worry if you think you're unusual and might skew the results - in fact we'd very much appreciate your perspective, whatever it is.
Thanks guys!
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Notes -
I kept running into the same problem I always run into on these political self-report surveys: I had to answer “Neither Agree Nor Disagree” on a number of questions not because I don’t have a strong opinion or stance on the issue in question, but because I reject the framing or ideological vocabulary of the way the question is written. I fear that my responses may skew the survey toward seeming to reflect that I’m apathetic about a host of hot-button issues, when actually my opinion is too complex to be adequately expressed by answering a single-sentence question.
Answering in that way won't skew anything. Some might argue that whenever the average departs significantly from Neither, your abstaining with Neither then functions as a dissenting opinion. But even taking this as a meaningful concern, the point of the survey is to get a sense of what everyone thinks, even people who throw up their hands in exasperation by simple attitude scales.
Out of curiosity, do you find the items on the Wilson-Patterson C Scale more or less frustrating? You just look at a word or phrase and respond Yes / ? / No: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Zitem-scale-of-social-conservatism-Henningham/764c5607d921d88d1cf9197f46858c38022899fb/figure/1
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