Politicla Ideology

A survey can be defined as a gathering of a sample of data or opinions considered to be representative of a whole. Such as when the United States government polls a random selection of people throughout the country to get an accurate reading of the people's overall prospective of what the American people think is best for the country. As I almost reach the age of eighteen, not only do I have to start worrying about my career and college, I have to affliate myself with a party and prepare to vote. I have taken three online polls and they all came out with similar results; I am a republican. The three polls I took were The Political Affiliation Quiz, The Political Quiz, and Political Compass. I liked them all but all for various reasons.

The Political Affiliation Quiz was the first quiz I took and I thought it was the best. It has a brief introductory explaining how the quiz works. I believe this is the best quiz because the choices are very in depth and they are not bias at all. This quiz makes you really think about the topics and make the decision on your own with no outside influence. It discusses all different topics from politics to economics to social problems. The only problem I see with this quiz is the answer choices being so long that there is room to agree with one statement in the answer yet disagree with another. I came along this problem when I did the question about abortion. I believe that abortion should only be used in cases of rape, incest or in utero threats to the life of the mother. So I believed I would pick that choice, until I read on and saw "Modest legal restrictions such as parental notification are both acceptable and warranted." I do not believe that parents should be notified if their child chooses to have an abortion. This made my choice much harder to make because it was too broad an answer. However, I do believe this was the most valid of the three tests.

The next quiz I took was The Political Quiz, which I found to be my least favorite of the three quizzes. I believed it had a good idea, but the answers were vague and I did not understand some of the contrasts between the answer choices. One questioned I believed to be completely unfair was the question that asked which president was better. It makes you choose between the most liberal of presidents, F. Roosevelt, or the most conservative of presidents. R. Reagan. I believe it was unfair because Roosevelt was president during two horrible crises for the U.S.; Great depression and WWII while Regan helped bring fall to communism. It was like making you choose which was more important, getting through the Great depression or ended communism. However, I did believe some aspects of the quiz were well done such as almost all of the questions gave you the choice to choose more then one answer. Even though this quiz was a good attempt, I believe it would not help someone trying to choose the right political party for them.

The next quiz I took was the Political Compass quiz which I thought was a decent quiz. It hit just about every topic and the choices were very good because the varied in the amount you agreed or disagreed. I believe that certain topics were unfair such as "A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies." In which you had to agree or disagree. It was unfair because its saying free enterprise economy with restrictions when free enterprise economy means no restrictions. Another unfair agree or disagree statement was "All authority should be questioned." This is far too vague because