Et Alia has a go at an eye-wateringly stupid internet political quiz, noting however that:
Do-it-yourself focus groups - cack-handedly reproducing the myopic categories of conventional politics, singing along with the bad karaoke version of a marketing guru's teeth-grindingly foul original, grinning and drooling as you do so whilst the crowd stares, aghast - I can't see the point of endlessly generating these things, either. It must be the same urge that drives people to watch the West Wing.
...This quiz isn't as stupid as the Political Compass—whose designer should be run through a wood chipper—because at least it doesn't equate the set of all possible political positions with a bounded set. “But the Political Compass is two dimensional, not one dimensional!” its defenders scream. Right, I say—that means it commits the same mistake twice and is therefore twice as stupid...
Do-it-yourself focus groups - cack-handedly reproducing the myopic categories of conventional politics, singing along with the bad karaoke version of a marketing guru's teeth-grindingly foul original, grinning and drooling as you do so whilst the crowd stares, aghast - I can't see the point of endlessly generating these things, either. It must be the same urge that drives people to watch the West Wing.