Binary Ideological Analysis

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Taking an online quiz to determine what political ideology or Canadian party you identify with is irresponsible in my opinion; it allows people to circumvent actual research and rational thinking by presenting multi-faceted issues through very broad concepts. You answer simple questions without having background knowledge on many of the questions, and are placed somewhere on a scale that supposedly reflects your beliefs. The intrinsic nature of ideologies is to combine ideas into a framework which reflects the views of the holder of that ideology1, which makes it very difficult to put someone into a binary ideology based on simplistic answers with no real normative considerations. I found that my quiz results were not very accurate in determining

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