What's Your Brain Ideology? Take the Test
 

This test tries to guess your political ideology through questions that have nothing to do with political matters.

http://chartsme.com/

I want to let people take it before I post my results, because I want people to go in "fresh" without being privy to what the test is correlating (although I'm sure some of you like RBG or reprise already know what's up, and even if you don't, you'll probably figure it out part way through).

I kinda meant to post this on the politics subforum, but it doesn't really matter, it fits just as well here I suppose.

51% conservative / 49% liberal

my brain is republican, it says

i guess

i said i was slightly disgusted by a person eating an apple with a fork. i meant disgusted by the person, not the act. i also would eat chocolate shaped like doodoo. it's only shaped like doodoo! and if i were hungry, i would totally eat my favorite soup that had been stirred with a used, but clean flyswatter

61% liberal, Democrat brain.

Seems like it has painted democrats as apathetic, indifferent slobs. I feel a warm sense of belonging.

i wish somebody would mention me by name in their post and say i'd probably know something

Your brain is a Democrat
Conservative (43%)
Liberal (57%)

i agree with all of these, except the apple i put no disgust. but ketchup on ice cream? gross. i also have no problem with a hand in a jar.

65% liberal

63% conservative. wrong!

Democrat:

43% Conservative; 57% Liberal

Same as reprise I see

74% liberal

Haha

Because in most of the cases I just could not give a single fuck, I guess

Like "you would be disgusted to find out your friend has been wearing the same pair of underwear for a week"

Nah man he's being economical it's not something that will hurt anyone including himself

i feel ya, but i get where my score comes from. as goofy as i can be, i really don't have a tolerance for what i see as nonsense or "irony." plus i have opinions.

but i'm really nice and like to share!

elph don't give a fuck, but y'all can't be friends if you don't like the same music.

liberal people are so narrow-minded

:rolleyes:

67% liberal, 33% conservative, my brain is a Democrat.

I'm pretty sure this works by attempting to measure your natural inclination towards feelings of fear and repulsion, especially in scenarios where you are basically guaranteed no harm or the thing in question has nothing to do with you/is none of your business. Psychologically, there is probably a strong argument that these tendencies are more common in conservative people, whose views (socially) are shaped more by negative, survivalist emotions.

It's worth noting that even where I clicked that things would bother me, I felt aware that these emotions are illogical. I think there was only one where I felt it was unfair because it was something where getting upset or feeling grossed out was legit and not a misguided evolutionary response. The ones about touching dead things also made me stop and think, because most of these play on state-of-nature fears like pests or illness or ingroup/outgroup nonsense. Touching a human body or picking up the dead cat is not something that bothers me out of disgust so much (as the test says) but because I am kind of afraid. I know it's equally as nonsensical, but the fear of touching a dead body is probably more a product of the modern West where death has been removed from "life" and exists in designated spaces away from the world, like hospitals.

The monkey one was also hard for me... I clicked neutral because I felt like the test was measuring fear or disgust. My problem with eating a monkey is the intelligence and emotional complexity of the animal, not a rejection of weird food, but if I was starving I would probably eat the monkey so

i said yes because it's meat. i've eaten deer and horse. at least, i think i ate horse. what's a monkey?!

I got 53/47 convservative. It's hard to distinguish between slightly giving a fuck, moderately giving a fuck, and really giving a fuck in these hypothetical situations. I've always had problems with quizzes like this. It should be a hard-line yes, no, idgaf 3-tier response.

Keep your idealogies off my brain.

do you mean 53 lib / 47 conserv?

or 53/47 conservative being the highest?

I can understand your question but it wouldn't make sense to list the losing result.

I'm not heavily into sports but results are often listed as, for example, "the final score 3-1 Rangers" which would mean that the Rangers won the game.

"I would go out of my way to avoid walking through a graveyard."

^ what a dumb 'question'. it seems whatever they're trying to measure would be affected if the person avoided walking through a graveyard out of respect or fear of ghosts/the dark.\

i know how sports scores can be said, which is why i asked - for clarification for myself. and i know you don't like sports.

it wouldn't be far-fetched to assume you listed the number after the respective result, implying the other.

good thing i asked!

it's a semantic 50/50 split anyway so who cares

a 50/50 split makes me happier than any other result

This is why I don't vote.

I just can't gauge moderate, slight, or extreme disgust within myself. Someone needs to hook something up to my brain and judge it for me.

Disgust it disgust. I don't care if its maggots or a dead body. It's proportionate to the situation.

I ticked mild disgust or neutral figuring that I had to save severe disgust for stuff like

"you see your father fucking your mother's dead body"
"you see someone in a gimp suit brutalising a child"
"you see someone dissecting an animal without anaesthesia because they take pleasure in the pain responses of the animal"

etc

Next to that, underpants for a week and eating monkey meat is like....eh, mild disgust

Your brain is a Democrat

Conservative (20%)


Not sure how scientific this is.

i find maggots much more disgusting than a dead body

recently I have come to find certain food smells to be nauseating, such as movie theater popcorn butter and the distinctive smell as soon as you enter a Subway

Conservative (34%)
Liberal (66%)

This is stupid

I guess it's time I reveal my score.



This is funny because I'm a lefty.

I feel uneasy pretty easily. My eyes legit start watering involuntarily if I see somebody has something hanging out of their nose.

Sometimes my feelings contradict my opinions. Like, if you were to ask me, I'd say "people should be more open talking about sex and parents should have healthy discussions about sex with their children and it shouldn't be seen as taboo etc etc." But actually I'm quite glad my parents never tried to talk to me about sex because ew. And I'm happy for what Laci Green does but I'm not going to sit through one of her videos explaining how to use a dental dam to facilitate safe anilingus. I'm pretty much Hank Hill. Or a shy debutante. I probably hesitate and lower the volume of my voice before saying words like "poop" or "sex."

Yeah, that one was hard for me, too. Like, when I watch one of those game shows where they have to eat worms or something, my response is just, "What's the big deal? Obviously they wouldn't feed this to the contestants if there was a realistic chance it could make them sick." I know a lot of people who wouldn't eat those lollipops with insects in them, but they seem harmless to me. I probably wouldn't have too hard a time adapting to foreign cuisines and unfamiliar meats so long as everything is prepared hygienically.

Only reason I said "no" to monkeys was their similarity to humans.

Take this quiz to determine how ignored you feel. I think teh b0lly!!1 probably knows the name of the game.

I didn't get the apple one. Like, it's just weird, not gross.

I usually eat apples with a knife because cutting it into bits is more comfortable than taking the whole thing to my face and getting some on my cheeks when I get mid-apple. But never a fork, how the fuck would one even do that.

I would have a problem with doo-doo chocolate (I don't want that image in my head when enjoying something brown; I don't even like that smiley doo-doo emoji I've been seeing lately) and the flyswatter.

Not sure if the gimp suit significantly affects the overall disgust score. I mean, the child rape variable kind of drowns out minor possible factors like that.

Maybe nose-picking would do it.

According to the site:
It sounds like the original test was very reliable, but this one uses an inventory rather than images, so there's no way to know about this test specifically unless somebody validates it. It's possible that it has no predictive power, even though one would think it would if it measures the same variable the original test does. With the "reproducibility crisis" in psychology, researchers have found that some often-cited studies are difficult to reproduce, and only work when certain seemingly-arbitrary steps are followed.

I guess right-wingers being more motivated by disgust may explain policy positions like "sodomy" laws? A lot of the reasoning by social conservatives doesn't seem to be utilitarian ("this is bad because it will cause this undesirable outcome"), but just based on gut-reactions ("IT'S UNNATURAL AND GODLESS"). If they do try to use utilitarian arguments, they usually come in the form of "this is bad because it will lead to more unnatural and godless stuff," a slippery-slope argument that just pushes the justification back a step.

Haven't read it myself, but I think Martha Nussbaum wrote a book on the use of disgust in moral reasoning and why it's usually bad.

Yeah, I would probably find the hand in a jar cool more than anything.

I could pick up a dead cat if I just witnessed it die, and it wasn't bloody or anything. And it didn't die of some communicable disease.

If I found a stiff dead cat just lying there for god knows how long, I wouldn't touch it.