How can you be sure whether you’re a Liberal or a Conservative?

Alright, it’s now official. I took the Moral Foundations Questionnaire which rated me alongside liberals and conservatives who had also taken the test. The questionnaire is a measure of one’s “reliance on and endorsement of five psychological foundations of morality that seem to be found across cultures.”

It confirmed what I’ve long suspected but could never be sure. I’m a (whew!) liberal.

Here’s the graph which lays out my results. That’s me in green, liberals in blue and conservatives in red.

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I’m more liberal than the norm in the harm and fairness areas, just about even with liberals on loyalty and purity and I lean towards the conservative side in the area of authority. Seems pretty balanced to me.

You can take the Moral Foundations Questionnaire here. The whole process takes about 5 minutes. You’ll be presented with a choice of tests. I did the first one. If you do take the test, post your results. I’d be curious to see how I rate alongside you guys.

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Comments

Janine Wallace says:

May 29, 2009 at 6:36 pm

Test results for Liberal/Conservative:
5.0 Harm; 4.3 Fairness; 3.0 Loyalty; 2.3 Authority and (drum roll please) 2.0 Purity.
catlover says:

May 29, 2009 at 6:57 pm

4.3 Harm: 4.5 Fairness: 1.9 Loyalty: 1.8 Authority: 0.8 Purity.

I’m concerned about the purity thing. Should I be?
Lantos says:

May 29, 2009 at 7:35 pm

hmmm catlover, 0.8 purity? Not good. :)

I’m not too much better.

4.9 harm 4.8 fairness 1.6 loyalty 1.7 authority 1.3 purity
mimi says:

May 29, 2009 at 7:54 pm

no catlover. we are what we are. I don’t know about these tests. But, I did it anyway.

Here sits me:
Harm 3.7; Fairness 4.5; Loyalty 2.5; Authority 2.5; Purity 2.3.

I haven’t read the pdf that goes along with the study. but, you can d/l here:
http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/articles/haidt.graham.2007.when-morality-opposes-justice.pdf

Mario, what do the numbers mean? I’ll read the paper, but, in a nutshell?
liberalsRs....d says:

May 29, 2009 at 11:32 pm

Mine doesn’t seem to be working properly. I keep answering the questions but for some reason, the results keep coming back stating, “Rejected”.
mimi says:

May 30, 2009 at 12:11 am

Libby, I am laughing so hard i can’t even reply.

But… i do actually understand. That stupid site makes you register. you gotta give ‘em basic info before they’ll let you do whatever.

Still… I really did need that laugh. (seriously, I did.) So, thank you.
liberalsRs....d says:

May 30, 2009 at 10:09 am

Harm – 3.0
Fairness – 3.2
Loyalty – 4.0 (Proud of that one)
Authority – 3.3
Purity – negative 478 (actually – 3.5 but that has to be a mistake.)
Strong says:

June 2, 2009 at 5:08 pm

Harm 3.7
Fairness 4.7
Loyalty 1.7
Authority 1.2
Purity 0.3

I always knew I was “impure”, and didn’t give a damn about it! LOL