ext_128538 ([identity profile] stress-kitten.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] velvetpage 2005-07-29 02:36 am (UTC)

Agreed. The person has made some very unsupported assumptions on a number of levels. But then, it's an online quiz... all of them are based on some very broad assumptions (and prejudices) about people. Assumptions that are often a)incorrect or b)made incorrect if one assumes that people actually examine their actions (like most of my friends and I'm sure yours do).

An example: The question regarding organised religion. I'm assuming that it was used for establishing your "susceptability to brainwashing". Some of the most critical, analytical people I know are practising, church-going Christians. They apply that analysis to their faith as well as everything else that occurs in their lives. Their faith has absolutely nothing to do with their susceptability to propaganda.

In this person's defense, they did mention at the very end that "born and raised in Germany" you would likely have been xyz. This is their assumption that you have arrived at the position you are at now despite being raised in a different country at a different time. Of course, it being a different country at a different time totally devalidates the quiz, but...

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