The World's Smallest Political Quiz was designed by the Advocates for Self-Government. The quiz generates a lot of discussion. Pass it around at a party or dinner to start up lively conversations for the rest of the night. The quiz is designed to be unbiased because if everyone landed in the libertarian section no one would believe the results - only about 20% of the quiz takers land in the libertarian section, but if you are one of those 20% then you can find out more info about libertarianism at <http://www.self-gov.org/>
Catamount Software designed the Newton version of the World's Smallest Political Quiz for the Vermont Libertarian Party. The Vermont Libertarian Party uses the Newton and the WSPQ at state fair, county fairs, and other events as an outreach tool. People are asked to take the quiz, the Newton graphs the results, a dot in placed on a big graph to show the overall political leaning of the crowd, and contact info and demographics are filled in for followup by the VTLP.
Cost & Registering
LibertarianWare - the quiz is absolutely free to distribute and use. We ask that you give the quiz to as many people as you can. Hopefully, as more people take the quiz the more people will find out there are other choices besides the democrats (left) and republicans (right).
How To
WSPQ requires Newton OS 2.x.
Install World's Smallest Political Quiz with Newton Connection Utilities.
1. Tap New to create a new quiz.
2. Answer the questions by filling in the dots.
2a. Tap on the text of the question to see quotes by famous people about the question's topic.
3. Tap Show and select Graph! to see where you land on the graph.
4. Tap the different sections of the graph to find out more information about that section.
5. Close the Graph! screen.
6. If you ever need to delete a quiz result tap Show and select Contact Info. If you are not in the Simple Prompting mode or beginner mode then a Delete button will be displayed. Tap delete to delete the quiz.
If you are using WSPQ as an outreach tool...
A. The Show menu has options for Contact Info and Demographics.
B. Simple Prompting asks one question at a time. A couple questions are worded a little different so it is less confusing to the quiz taker. Also, the font is bigger so it is easier to read for people with bad vision.
C. Prefs has a check box for Beginner Mode. This mode will display extra prompts to help a non-Newton user work their way through the quiz.
D. The overview button and up/down scroll arrows do work.
E. Statistics will tabulate the results.
F. Once an outreach event is finished. Revelar Connection Utilities or Accordian (both by Revelar) can be used to upload the data to a Macintosh Filemaker Database Template which I included.
Contact Information
Hardy Macia
Catamount Software
P.O. Box 8276
Essex VT 05451, USA
(802) 372-9512
email : politics@catamount.com
Catamount Software : <http://www.catamount.com/>
Advocates for Self-Government : <http://www.self-gov.org/>
Vermont Libertarian Party : <http://www.catamount.com/VTLP/>
