Wow, ive seen a lot of these vote match kinds of sites, kind of started to dismiss them. i saw this too and definitely thought it was impressive, but the NYT? i guess i should spend a little more time on this one… Have you thought about opening up all the quiz questions so you can take the full survey? that would be interesting for those of us who didnt grow up in the 30 second MTV attention span era.
Hey Guys,
I thought the quiz was cool–I hope more ppl learn about candidates this way. However the questions need to be more specific. For instance, one is something like “Do you support tax increases for the wealthiest americans”–that’s hard to answer when you don’t put a number to “wealthiest.” The Democrats recently put a bill in that would raise taxes on “the wealthy” but they defined the wealthy as those earning $150,000 or more. To me, a household earning $150,000 is middle class, and shouldnt have higher taxes. [Harvard College agrees, their finacial aide office now allows aid to families earning as much as $120k/yr).
If you defined “wealthiest” as say, those earning $1mm or more, yes, I’d support raising their taxes. But not for households of $150k. No way.
The same goes for the companion question of “Do you support lowering taxes for the middle class”–all depends on who the middle class is defined as.
So please be as specific as possible in your questions.
Great site!
phil
Cool site, helped me understand where the candidates stand. My only question is, where is Ron Paul? Some of his ideas sound great, some a little radical, it would have been nice to see how he would fit in my quiz answers.
I agree with Raj. I would certainly like the opportunity to answer the entire quiz to see what comes of it. As it is, I took the quiz twice-once with more generalized ranking (each issue getting at least a 1), and once assigning greater importance to fewer issues. That’s how I realized the correlation between the number of questions and the issues’ importance to me. Even still, I found the results interesting and enjoyed the opportunity to use the “Other Candidates” menu to learn about other stances on those specific questions. All in all, a great tool for learning and making a truly informed decision.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Wow, ive seen a lot of these vote match kinds of sites, kind of started to dismiss them. i saw this too and definitely thought it was impressive, but the NYT? i guess i should spend a little more time on this one… Have you thought about opening up all the quiz questions so you can take the full survey? that would be interesting for those of us who didnt grow up in the 30 second MTV attention span era.
Hey Guys,
I thought the quiz was cool–I hope more ppl learn about candidates this way. However the questions need to be more specific. For instance, one is something like “Do you support tax increases for the wealthiest americans”–that’s hard to answer when you don’t put a number to “wealthiest.” The Democrats recently put a bill in that would raise taxes on “the wealthy” but they defined the wealthy as those earning $150,000 or more. To me, a household earning $150,000 is middle class, and shouldnt have higher taxes. [Harvard College agrees, their finacial aide office now allows aid to families earning as much as $120k/yr).
If you defined “wealthiest” as say, those earning $1mm or more, yes, I’d support raising their taxes. But not for households of $150k. No way.
The same goes for the companion question of “Do you support lowering taxes for the middle class”–all depends on who the middle class is defined as.
So please be as specific as possible in your questions.
Great site!
phil
Cool site, helped me understand where the candidates stand. My only question is, where is Ron Paul? Some of his ideas sound great, some a little radical, it would have been nice to see how he would fit in my quiz answers.
I agree with Raj. I would certainly like the opportunity to answer the entire quiz to see what comes of it. As it is, I took the quiz twice-once with more generalized ranking (each issue getting at least a 1), and once assigning greater importance to fewer issues. That’s how I realized the correlation between the number of questions and the issues’ importance to me. Even still, I found the results interesting and enjoyed the opportunity to use the “Other Candidates” menu to learn about other stances on those specific questions. All in all, a great tool for learning and making a truly informed decision.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.