Talk:World's Smallest Political Quiz

message: Regarding this passage: "The quiz has been used in 420 schools in the United States as a way for instructors to give their students the opportunity to find out where they lean politically." The National Center for Education Statistics indicates there are around 130,000 schools in the US. Around 29,000 are private. 420 schools amounts to 0.3% of schools. As such, I don't see much point to the claim, other than trying to provide some authenticity to the quiz, which the Advocates for Self Gov't site can do without the help of Wikipedia. Shoehorn 05:53, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  420 schools 

message: The final sentence in the criticism section (Also welfare for business is scored as a liberal opinion instead of a conservative one. [6]) has two problems with it. For one, the citation does not actually exist, there are only 5 citations listed at the bottom of the page. Secondly, the statement is true: the quiz scores ending corporate welfare as economically conservative and pro-corporate welfare as economically liberal. But, this is a valid distinction and not backwards as the sentence implies.67.186.29.165 (talk) 07:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But after the quiz is taken, the user can see that agreeing with the statements gives a higher score, possibly encouraging them to retake the test, and certainly attempting to persuade them that the libertarian viewpoint is somehow better than their original view. Shoehorn 18:47, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I have felt that this sentence doesn't belong.  The previous sentence has two things that make me uncomfortable: 1) No citiation is ever given to the claim, 2) the assumption is that foreign policy is a "social issue".  I will make the modest proposal that both sentences be removed from Criticism section, but still leave in the first sentence. Liberty4u 17:41, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

text: As it stands, the main critic the article cites is a certain "Mark Rupright" who self-published an article whose main point is that the questions favor "yes" too much. He also asserts that he has designed questions that favor "no" more often, but I can't confirm this. So I doubt that this particular criticism is founded in reality. Shinobu (talk) 00:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The other references in this article all link to the same site, which happens to be the site where the Quiz is hosted. If you are trying to make the case that Rupright's link lacks notability, I would ask that you also remove these other (primary source) references as they too are self-published. There won't be much of an article left after that. Shoehorn (talk) 06:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While I agree with Shoehorn that the Mark Rupright article is probably more reliable than the stuff from The Advocates site, it is true that we need more criticism.  Rupright is hardly the only person criticizing the quiz for that reason, so is there a way we could find something that is more reliable (that has citations)? Beggarsbanquet (talk) 07:21, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: I briefly edited the Criticism section but removed my changes because I am not sure that they were NPOV.  There is presently no talk about similar quizzes (e.g. the political compass, political survey).  Should there be another section for alternatives to the quiz?  Similar multi-axis political quizzes tend to be more thorough and do not have some of the elements that evoke criticism of W'sSPQ.  (for the political compass:  a zero set in the center rather in the 0%-100% from statist to libertarian; it is not oriented in a biased direction, i.e. libertarian being "top" of the chart; different quadrants are equally represented on political compass website; straight yes's don't yield a particular extreme).  Obviously saying this would be biased toward other quizzes, but it seems like there should be more acknowledgment of alternatives.Jwpitts (talk) 05:09, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternatives 

message: I want everyone who likes to take the quiz (include me) if the quiz is free of charge (i.e. you'll pay nothing). Indicate it as soon as possible. Thank you.
More Questions? See my talk page. -Pika ten10 (talk) 07:00, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the quiz free of charge? 

message: I am not a published source so of course this can not be included in the article, but it can not go without mention here about how incredibly US orientated the quiz is: even the choice of words in the questions, let alone the definitions of the categories of the individual personality types, betrays its origin. Whilst not a critical criticism (if you see what I mean) it should be bourne in mind.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.224.1.162 (talk) 10:48, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Over a year ago, somebody removed the criticism section on the grounds that the site was "self published" and thus not reliable. The relevant diff is here:  . Thoughts? Kansan (talk) 14:20, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: The quiz is obviously aimed at Americans but the article does not say so. For many (most?) non-Americans some of the questions are either moot or don't make much sense. For example; I'm South African, we've had Identity documents since before Moses was a baby, there is absolutely zero controversy or opposition to them from any political organisation in the country (at least since the end of Apartheid). Any South African opposed to the existence of IDs would be labeled a nutcase rather than a libertarian. Roger (talk) 12:14, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article should explicitly state that the "quiz" is specifically designed for Americans 

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message: Any reason why this article shouldn't be merged with Nolan Chart? They cover essentially the exact same material. Nwebster84 (talk) 01:05, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with [[Nolan Chart]]

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