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yourmorals.org

It's a series of surveys being conducted by researchers at U.Va. and a couple of universities out in California.

Some of them are really good, and I found them helpful in quantifying how I define my morals. Each of them are compared with Conservatives and Liberals, and that was interesting as well.

Just thought I'd share.

I've taken a few of these and so far, no surprise, I consistently come out as more liberal than liberal. Sometimes by a wide margin.

So, accurate, I guess.

Very interesting, I took a bunch of the tests

Fascinating.
I took the test and discovered I'm more asshole than Republicans but not as head up ass as Liberals.

FZR1KG wrote:Fascinating.
I took the test and discovered I'm more asshole than Republicans but not as head up ass as Liberals.

Just don't stick your own head up your own asshole.

I couldn't help notice my answers to the crime & punishment are heavily influenced by my legal education. I think had I not gone to law school but was otherwise the same, my answers would be different in significant ways. Or maybe not. Maybe it's just me maturing into who I am.

This is one of the better groups of surveys I've taken, even with some misspellings.

Speaking of, this has been popular in our department lately- Project Implicit. Basically a way to see what your biases are, not that any of us are free of them so much as one needs to recognize them.

We basically had a talk on Wednesday about the state of women in academia which might've been the best talk I ever heard on the topic (it was by an Aussie astronomer in charge of an institute down there who is famous for women-friendly initiatives, like making sure all jobs are also offered as part-time and insisting meetings are only held between 10am-2pm), and while I'd say our department is incredibly women-friendly compared to the average it's been really good to see everyone talking about the issue since.

geonuc wrote:I couldn't help notice my answers to the crime & punishment are heavily influenced by my legal education.

Ditto... I think. I'd be interested to know if our results are similar.

Swift wrote:

FZR1KG wrote:Fascinating.
I took the test and discovered I'm more asshole than Republicans but not as head up ass as Liberals.

Just don't stick your own head up your own asshole.

It's been stuck there for years.