Odd new political test: Moral Foundations Test

[Arakhor]

Of course, moral questions are relative to your culture. I probably scored more highly on Liberty than an American version of me would do so, simply because I was not inculcated with treating national flags as near-holy relics.

 

[civvver]

Did we all get the same questions? So if you think it's fine to serve a cake that looks like dog poop you are liberal?

I found most of the questions stupid. Like one said a soccer team's coach tells everyone to wear black shoes to the game and a kid wears white. How is that a moral question? It's immoral to not listen to your coach? Maybe it's not the best idea for your playing time but how is that a moral imperative?

And then there were a couple on food, one said a couple throws a dinner party and serves a dessert that looks like dog poop. Again how is that a question of morals? It may be off putting to some people but what's morally wrong about it?

Another one: a couple is experiencing far east food and decides to server dog to their kids. Who cares? Now the question kind of lacks context, did they butcher the family dog or get this meat from like an asian grocery store?

Maybe I'm so far left I just don't see the big deal in these but this test seems to lean left imo, a lot of nationalist questions about flags and anthems too.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Of course, moral questions are relative to your culture. I probably scored more highly on Liberty than an American version of me would do so, simply because I was not inculcated with treating national flags as near-holy relics.

I was kinda wondering if a flag would even be practical for cleaning

I don't know what kind of fabric they're made of

 

[Darkflight]

I was kinda wondering if a flag would even be practical for cleaning

I don't know what kind of fabric they're mad of

For what it's worth, my experience with the Norwegian flag tells me that it would be pretty bad for cleaning puposes.

 

[muhtesem insan]

So the leftest ideology is still a right wing (or at least centre) ideology. a useless test.

Your scores are:

Nurture 83.3%
Tradition 27.8%
Liberty 41.7%

Your strongest moral foundation is Nurture.
Your morality is closest to that of a Left-Liberal.

 

[onejayhawk]

No, I got conservative pretty easily, you just need to show a strong respect for authority and tradition.

I see. All the definitions seem to be off. Why not that one?

J

 

[Traitorfish]

Your scores are:
Nurture 87.5%
Tradition 35.2%
Liberty 44.4%

Your strongest moral foundation is Nurture.
Your morality is closest to that of a Left-Liberal.

"Liberty" score feels low, but I guess I would say that. Still, a lot of what I take to be the "liberty" questions seemed to define liberty as "being a pointless jerk", which feels like a kinda UKIPish definition of "liberty".

 

[Catharsis]

Your scores are:
Nurture 68.1%
Tradition 46.3%
Liberty 27.8%

Your strongest moral foundation is Nurture.
Your morality is closest to that of a Left-Liberal.

Dunno, I kinda feel like if you want to be a liberal you should probably score higher than 27.8% on Liberty.

 

[Arakhor]

This does seem like a statistically improbable number of "left-liberals", even given the frequent criticisms of this forum's clientèle.

 

[Ajidica]

Of course, moral questions are relative to your culture. I probably scored more highly on Liberty than an American version of me would do so, simply because I was not inculcated with treating national flags as near-holy relics.

I voted against that one for two reasons:
1) Most modern flags are made of nylon which isn't very absorbent, so using it wouldn't be that helpful.
2) I thought the question mentioned something about the flag being a parent's or something, in which case it might have sentimental or historical meaning.

 

[sophie]

They're not directly morality questions, but they're predictors of the foundations of your morality.

But you're asking to comment on whether or not an action is moral. So you are, in essence, answering questions of morality.

But the questions are mostly bad. For example:

White socks uniform, player wears black socks. There's nothing immoral about it. It's kinda s****y, sure, but there's nothing wrong with doing so in of itself. He's a free human being and he's allowed to dress however the heck he wants. But if the question then said something like "The coach forced him to sit out for the next game for failing to abide by the uniform rules," then I'd very strongly say the action the coach took was moral. So depending on how the question is framed I can be both for and against the action the player took. As I said before, that's my problem with the quiz. It elicits a lot of "yeah, and?" responses because most of the questions are framed as "this person did something does that make you mad?"

The point is this quiz unfairly characterizes me as a libertarian because the questions are framed in a dumb way. To return to the question above: either I fill in the missing implication (i.e. I assume the question is about whether or not a coach would be justified in benching the player or kicking him off the team), or I answer the literal question presented me, in which case I answer 95% of the questions "agree strongly" and feel like I wasted a half hour taking a dumb quiz.

 

[_random_]

Because it didn't allow you to copy and past the values here's the image I got:

It called me a left-liberal which was weird but if there are only three options I guess that's what I'd go with.

 

[red_elk]

They're not directly morality questions, but they're predictors of the foundations of your morality.

I just don't know how to answer them. Most of them sound to me like "Is it moral for grass to be green?".

The thing which I found strongly immoral is, for example, deceiving people who trust you (may be it's part of my culture, don't know), but there were only one or two questions about that.

 

[Angst]

Your scores are:

Nurture 52.8%
Tradition 14.8%
Liberty 55.6%

Your strongest moral foundation is Liberty.
Your morality is closest to that of a Left-Liberal.

ye cool

 

[Takhisis]

Nearly all of the questions resulted in me going, "and then what?" Most of the moral stances for me were dependent on action taken by others in response to the scenario and very few of the scenarios include that part. So I guess per the confines of this quiz, I'm pretty high on the liberty side, but if you included "so Tommy fired him," then I'd be much higher on Nurture and probably even Tradition to some extent.

Didn't finish it. About half of all questions either have nothing to do with morality, or the answer would depend on context.

According to the website I'm a left-liberal… but in the US everyone would call me a ‘liberal’, at least compared to the Drumpf anti-Muslim wing of the GOP or the Palin/Cruz Freedumb!!! ones. Unless, say, they asked about religion (practically ignored in the test) and then someone who goes to church more than once a year is a papist something-or-other.

The test is not localised and the questions are too broad. I live in a country where the state providing healthcare is the norm; in the US I'd be branded as a Communist for that.

 

[The_J]

As everyone else: This lacks some context.
And now I'd actually be rather more interested in the original test with 6 different types of morality. Maybe that one is more interesting.

Your scores are:

Nurture 95.8%
Tradition 29.6%
Liberty 61.1%

Your strongest moral foundation is Nurture.
Your morality is closest to that of a Left-Liberal.

Outperforming nearly every left-liberal .
(yes, I know, the interpretation is not that easy)


EDIT: The "original" test with the 6 different morality types has the same questions :/.

Your scores are:
Care 100%
Fairness 94.4%
Loyalty 50%
Authority 44.4%
Purity 5.6%
Liberty 63.9%

Your strongest moral foundation is Care.
Your morality is closest to that of a Left-Liberal.

Now I have at least an idea how my tradition score is composed *lol*.

 

[Tahuti]

Basically, "liberal democrat" is rebranded as "nurture", "conservative republican" as "tradition" and "libertarian" as... "liberty". Seriously? The questions are based on stereotypes on what Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians do in their spare time.

"You have an affair with your parent's African-American housekeeper. In everyday life, you are a segregationist, however."

Spoiler :

If you think that's okay, that's some points for tradition I guess.

 

[Commodore]

"You have an affair with your parent's African-American housekeeper. In everyday life, you are a segregationist, however."

Does the test randomize questions? I didn't get this question when I took it.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Your scores are:
Nurture 77.8%
Tradition 63.9%
Liberty 86.1%

Your strongest moral foundation is Liberty.
Your morality is closest to that of a Conservative.

Appropriate, I would say. Started off as a democratic socialist in college (2008), drifted toward left-libertarianism (2010), grew in appreciation of markets, and then discovered the Catholic social doctrine or distributism. I'm constantly caught in the tension between 'freedom and virtue'. (I want human flourishing, but I don't believe that top-down government micromanagement of individuals and businesses does it.)

Dunno, I kinda feel like if you want to be a liberal you should probably score higher than 27.8% on Liberty.

Well, for classical liberals. Modern liberals are very into the authority-command and control thing.

 

[civvver]

Yeah it's way too slanted. How they associate nationalism with conservatism. You can be a liberal nationalist too or not be one and be conservative, but if you said it's fine to clean with the flag you lose conservative points.