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- From: jglarson@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Johan Larson)
- Subject: Re: Media bias
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.122854.22188@math.waterloo.edu>
- Keywords: bias
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <423@milestn.UUCP> <Brx4Fw.Cnu@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Jul26.014344.7537@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 12:28:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul26.014344.7537@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >In article <Brx4Fw.Cnu@well.sf.ca.us> rab@well.sf.ca.us (Bob Bickford) writes:
- >>The "World's Smallest Political Quiz" based on the Nolan Chart
- >>
- >
- >There doesn't seem to be enough granularity here, and I'm not
- >convinced the questions are sufficiently varied to differentiate much.
- >I took the quiz personally, then took it from the Republican,
- >Democrat, and libertarian point of views. Everything but libertarian
- >wound up hitting right around the center. That leaves me feeling like
- >this was a quiz put together by libertarians.
-
- I can find at least one dissenting data point.
- I just asked my father to take the quiz. He scored 20/30, putting
- him solidly into the authoritarian area. I think he would describe
- himself as a European Liberal.
-
- --
- Johan Larson
- The net is packed with objectivists, anarchists,
- libertarians and self-appointed threats to the current
- order, writing on company time with company equipment.
-