online Presidential selection quizzes
Jan. 10th, 2008 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynI have reservations about the "2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz" - mine was exclusively Democratic before any Republicans with no exceptions, and most everyone I've seen online who's posted their results came up the same; little variation = poorly worded questions, more often than not. In sociological jargon, I think the quiz has validity problems (e.g. it isn't properly measuring the values it is supposed to be measuring).
However, I managed to find one that was even worse.
Look at MPR's presidential match quiz. Three of the five answers in Q1 are identical. That tells me someone was being sloppy when they put it together. There's other problems like that throughout the quiz. I thought it might be Firefox messing up the HTML, but no, it comes up the same in Internet Explorer.
However, I managed to find one that was even worse.
Look at MPR's presidential match quiz. Three of the five answers in Q1 are identical. That tells me someone was being sloppy when they put it together. There's other problems like that throughout the quiz. I thought it might be Firefox messing up the HTML, but no, it comes up the same in Internet Explorer.
