Also, if you don't believe Astrology is accurate, your authoritarian score goes up.
That's a little surprising, and opposite my guess, so I looked into it. I've uncovered some statistics and find that there apparently is little consistent correlation between belief in the ability of the stars to guide our fates and political ideology. So it is probably based on a faulty assumption. On the other hand, at least in the anglophone world, there is a correlation between gender and such beliefs. This is from a 2005 Harris poll conducted in the US, the UK, and Canada. The percentages are of those who responded positively to the question, "Can the position of the stars or planets affects people's lives?"
USA Male 23
USA Female 28
Canada Male 17
Canada Female 33
UK Male 15
UK Female 30
And if you don't like abstract art, then it goes up too.
This may not be based on a faulty assumption, according to a large body of research. A number of psychology papers concluded that the processing of abstract art correlates to an increase in alpha waves (8 - 12 Hz in frequency) of the brain. These are associated with wakeful periods during sleep, and with Zen-trained meditation masters. Totalitarian-minded leaders, both on the Left and on the Right, have generally required the afectation of charisma--Think of Hitler, Mussolini, and Pol Pot--which generally happens at the alpha-theta border (~7.5 Hz), thus requiring lower alpha and higher theta wave activity in the occipital lobe and hippocampus than would generally be associated with the analysis of abstract art.
All the questions are phrased so poorly, that it makes me want to slam my head into a wall.
On-line quiz questions are generally worded poorly. They are not run through the usual editing process that print materials for scholarly purposes are. But that's not really the point, is it? If you're slamming your head into a wall, then you too are taking this quiz too seriously.
Like all quizzes, this one has its faults, but it is no more or less consistent than the rest. It puts Reagan to the right of Marx, and above Gandhi. It puts the SNP to the left of the Conservative Party and above the Green Party. It puts me generally somewhere in between Jimmy Carter and Margaret Thatcher. I'd say that results are fairly self-consistent.
Try this one out for size:
Nothing very serious about this result--Do we really know how Trump, Clinton, Stein, or Johnson would answer all these questions? Probably not--but I'd say that relatively speaking the result is spot on. i.e., I have no trouble believing that Donald Trump is more authoritarian than Hillary Clinton, and that Hillary Clinton is more authoritarian that Gary Johnson, and that Jill Stein is about the same as Gary Johnson by that measure. Moreover, I have no trouble believing that Jill stein is far, far to the left of the other three, Johnson is the rightmost economically, and that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are fairly similar on the left/right scale, with different priorities, however.
