Pragmatic Centrist/Technocrat (non-ideological pursuit of policy goals)
Dadaist/Absurdist/Nihilist (rejection of politics as an organizational process)
It’s also controversial to conflate Communism as an ideology with the specific implementation of Marxism-Leninism that the USSR embodied; this also ignores wide variations between Soviet leaders (Kruschev in particular was highly revisionist and attracted the ire of other contemporary communists leading to the Sino-Soviet split).
Alternatively, going strictly for coverage, the following options should encompass the majority of political beliefs held by Westerners:
Conservative (US Republican party)
Liberal (US Democratic party)
Libertarian (sic) (US Libertarian party)
Fascist (BNP, Golden Dawn, Front Nationale, various groups in the US)
Electoral Socialist (US Socialist Party, Old Labor, France’s Socialist Party)
Revolutionary Marxist (ANSWER Coalition in the US, various Communist parties and organizations around the world)
Anarchist (IWW, the organizers of Occupy, neo-Situationism, various other movements)
This has the side-effect of hitting all quadrants and achieving pretty good coverage on the two-axis political spectrum.
Other comments:
It’s possible to get a 1600-scored SAT by just adding your Math and Reading scores. The change to a 2400-point SAT was done via the addition of an 800-point Writing section that many colleges ignored and is now being phased out IIRC. When I applied for colleges, they typically asked for the scores for each section out of 800. Doing this here would probably be best.
I think 10 calibration questions is a pretty huge burden and is probably going to lead to a lot of drop-off. There’s no way to measure this in Google Forms and it’s probably going to skew the results pretty badly.
Google forms is probably not the best way to deploy this. Look into getting a SurveyGizmo account or better yet, access to Qualtrics. Qualtrics is the state of the art survey tool. I used to have access through my university and am pretty sure someone else on LW now would.
On the two-dimensional political axis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass
The options given are:
central right (anti-state capitalist)
moderate right (state-ambivalent capitalist)
upper-moderate-right (regulationist capitalist)
Worded as moderate left, but presented as upper-center (Scandinavian welfare states)
Upper-left (state communist, USSR)
This leaves a rather large portion of the spectrum totally unaccounted for and is going to artificially inflate the neighboring elements.
Adding the following items would fix this:
Upper-right (Third Positionist, Golden Dawn, British National Party)
Lower-left (Anarchism, Christiania, Spanish Republic)
Lower-right (Neo-feudalist, neoliberal)
Pragmatic Centrist/Technocrat (non-ideological pursuit of policy goals)
Dadaist/Absurdist/Nihilist (rejection of politics as an organizational process)
It’s also controversial to conflate Communism as an ideology with the specific implementation of Marxism-Leninism that the USSR embodied; this also ignores wide variations between Soviet leaders (Kruschev in particular was highly revisionist and attracted the ire of other contemporary communists leading to the Sino-Soviet split).
Alternatively, going strictly for coverage, the following options should encompass the majority of political beliefs held by Westerners:
Conservative (US Republican party)
Liberal (US Democratic party)
Libertarian (sic) (US Libertarian party)
Fascist (BNP, Golden Dawn, Front Nationale, various groups in the US)
Electoral Socialist (US Socialist Party, Old Labor, France’s Socialist Party)
Revolutionary Marxist (ANSWER Coalition in the US, various Communist parties and organizations around the world)
Anarchist (IWW, the organizers of Occupy, neo-Situationism, various other movements)
This has the side-effect of hitting all quadrants and achieving pretty good coverage on the two-axis political spectrum.
Other comments:
It’s possible to get a 1600-scored SAT by just adding your Math and Reading scores. The change to a 2400-point SAT was done via the addition of an 800-point Writing section that many colleges ignored and is now being phased out IIRC. When I applied for colleges, they typically asked for the scores for each section out of 800. Doing this here would probably be best.
I think 10 calibration questions is a pretty huge burden and is probably going to lead to a lot of drop-off. There’s no way to measure this in Google Forms and it’s probably going to skew the results pretty badly.
Google forms is probably not the best way to deploy this. Look into getting a SurveyGizmo account or better yet, access to Qualtrics. Qualtrics is the state of the art survey tool. I used to have access through my university and am pretty sure someone else on LW now would.