If you could ask everyone to fill out a 27-page survey honestly…

you can get pretty accurate details of people’s beliefs (max is out 5.0/5.0):
Part 1
  1. (5.0) “Everything Has a Natural Cause”
  2. (5.0) “Facts Are All That’s Important”
  3. (5.0) “People Are Essentially Good”
  4. (4.8) “We Are Responsible for All Our Choices”
  5. (4.5) “There is Special Personal Enlightenment”
  6. (4.5) “Money is the Highest Good”
  7. (4.3) “Existing Institutions Need Not Be Cleared Away”
  8. (4.0) “Constitutional Government is Best”
  9. (4.0) “Established Forms Are Most Important”
  10. (4.0) “Reason and Science Are the Highest Good”
Part 2
  1. (5.0) “No Discrimination Against Gay People”
  2. (5.0) “Politicians Take Advantage of Us”
  3. (4.8) “Birth Control Should be Readily Available
  4. (4.5) ”Complete Sexual Freedom”
  5. (4.4) “Equality for Men and Women”
  6. (4.3) ”Acts with No Victims Are Not Crimes”
  7. (4.0) ”Poor People Cause their Poverty”
  8. (4.0) “Foreigners Should Not Influence Our Policies”
  9. (4.0) “Minimal Government That Provides Only Essential Services”
  10. (4.0) “Importance of Our Civic Obligations”
Based on this hour+ survey by University of Oregon, following the directions of my professor: “If you feel brave, choose the extreme choices (strongly disagree/agree) as much as possible. You answers should be your initial ‘gut’ instinct and not what you feel is socially acceptable.”

Obviously, some traits I knew I would get, but some I didn’t expect, it’s always interesting to get a new perspective-even if it’s yourself. At least now I can change my usually political, “I don’t care” stance to something a bit more sided ;)

- Jeff

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