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has anyone tried to create an IQ facsimile for politics? basically you come up with 100 political questions and ask 10,000+ people, then do factor analysis on
by teravor 4mo ago
has anyone tried to create an IQ facsimile for politics?
basically you come up with 100 political questions and ask 10,000+ people, then do factor analysis on the answers. it would be interesting to find out how many actual factors dominate all the variance.
- tptacek 4mo agoAren't there a lot of these? Pew did one (it's k-medoid clustering, not factor analysis, but same idea). https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology...
- teravor 4mo agoI don't think this is what I had in mind. the questions are extremely leading and on the nose, designed to elicit ideology more than anything intrinsic about the subject's actual preferences. also it should not apply to just the US. if I designed an IQ test like they designed those questions, it would be considerably worse than just giving a simple math test.
- nonethewiser 4mo agoCould you give any example questions? I know what you mean about leading questions. It almost seems inevitable. There are two sets of languages.
- teravor 4mo agowithout much thought put into it, something like: an accused murderer has been convicted with a probability of X% of having committed the deed. a sentence of death is warranted for X of: 1) Never warranted / unrealistic percentage 2) >99.9 3) >99 4) >97 5) <96
- tptacek 4mo agoI really don't think any of the existing political quizzes are suffering for lack of questions about whether we should kill more people.