If anyone had any issues with the political questions at the end, then please poke me about them here so I can take it into account for further development of this ideology test.
The government knows well how to balance costs and benefits.
Consider this story (in Danish): The Danish Ministry of Finance are aware that the decisions they are making are short-sighted, but are making them anyway for political reasons.
If one believed this decision was representative of the government in general, would one agree with your statement or disagree with it?
Maybe for future versions I should split up this question into separate parts. That said I’m not sure that makes it easier for most people to answer the question, since they might have a clearer opinion on how well the government is doing than about whether the government is failing for political or knowledge reasons.
TC1 doesn’t end with a full stop but the other items do.
Claims that it’s soon the end of the world are always hyperbolic and exaggerated.
Should be “Claims that the end of the world is soon are always hyperbolic and exaggerated”
To save the environment, people should eat seasonal locally grown food instead of importing food from across the world.
I can’t quite tell if this is asking me if that’s what people should do if they were trying to save the environment, or if people should do that, and the reason is because it saves the environment.
Other than fixing the periods, I wouldn’t change the questions right now as I’ve already got norms for their original form and you’ve already collected partial data on them. I may look into improving the phrasing for future versions of the questions.
If anyone had any issues with the political questions at the end, then please poke me about them here so I can take it into account for further development of this ideology test.
Consider this story (in Danish): The Danish Ministry of Finance are aware that the decisions they are making are short-sighted, but are making them anyway for political reasons.
If one believed this decision was representative of the government in general, would one agree with your statement or disagree with it?
Maybe for future versions I should split up this question into separate parts. That said I’m not sure that makes it easier for most people to answer the question, since they might have a clearer opinion on how well the government is doing than about whether the government is failing for political or knowledge reasons.
TC1 doesn’t end with a full stop but the other items do.
Should be “Claims that the end of the world is soon are always hyperbolic and exaggerated”
I can’t quite tell if this is asking me if that’s what people should do if they were trying to save the environment, or if people should do that, and the reason is because it saves the environment.
Noting that I’ve seen this, but I’m going to wait for tailcalled to tell me if it should be changed since I’m not the originator for the question.
I did fix the period at TC1, since that’s much more likely to be a copy paste error on my part.
Other than fixing the periods, I wouldn’t change the questions right now as I’ve already got norms for their original form and you’ve already collected partial data on them. I may look into improving the phrasing for future versions of the questions.