Taking a steer from American Athens, I just took a fun quiz on the site of the new snooker-the-yokels tome Applebee’s America. They try to peg your political habits by your consumer habits. Sounds plausible, right? Admit it: You’re probably sucking down your third latte of the day while poking at your sushi while reading this.
Here’s the kind of question they ask:
Which special event would you be more inclined to attend?
* Monster Truck Show
* Pro Wrestling Match
And remember, death is not an option.
So … what did it tell this die-hard liberal, recovering Nader-voter, ex-ponytail-wearing, Iraq-war-protesting-back-in-2002, artist-type lefty-blogger?
I’m in the RED TRIBE!
What tribe are you in?
Well there it is. Maybe if I’d favored pro wrestling, I’d be a Dem? (I’ll bet Travaglini loves him some rasslin’.)
There’s a sucker born every minute, and some of them run for office. Caveat lector for “Applebee’s America.”
Discuss
16 Comments . Leave a comment below.Coors or Bud? My goodness, that's like hell on Earth.
I'd rather sip turtle piss through a straw--without ice.
Except in the survey they called it "Coors"...
I was going to do the analogy of cow urine (Bud) to diluted cow urine (Coors). Bud & Coors is red, microbrews are blue.
Yes! I'm important, I'm a swing voter!
Ill just take it to mean Red in the European sense, Social Democrat or perhaps red blooded American. Either way suits me fine.
local brands are cheaper than Evian, Audi is cooler than Saab, Coors and Bud suck but Coors is lesser of two evils, college football is relevent and entertaining, I cant afford Whole Foods, and come on Wrestlings fake, Monster Trucks are definitely real, and awesome!
the Coors/Bud and the Monster Truck/Wrestling question. What I did answer, though, put me at TIPPING.
What a crock. They don't come any more bleeding heart liberal than I. This survey must be skewed just to the right of Attila the Hun.
Check it out here
This one is much more even handed: The World's Smallest Political Quiz
Actually, I have that test as a permanent link on my blogroll, at the top of the 'Differently Winged' section, so a person can determine if they should even be READING youse guys! (I would tell Mr. Ogre 'no'....)
I still like my little 12 question test; I like how it breaks down AREAS - I am 100% FISCAL conservative, but 100% ETHICS liberal.
When I take my other quiz, I come up as a centrist Republican (big shock THERE), and naturally, I'm in the Red tribe. Of course, I don't DRINK beer, so my answer there was based on how much I like their commercials. :~)
Also, I regard Fruit 2 O Plus 10 as a local water, because VeryFine makes it - I never saw the point of Evian anyways.
If I have to answer too many questions "None of the Above", and that isn't even offered as an option. I don't bother finishing the quiz.
Guess I've been voting the wrong way all my life.
But, a lot of the questions should have started with "if you were forced at gunpoint..."
And is it really fair to lump the big grocers, which I bet most of us shop at, with Wal-Mart?
I came out Blue.
I'm actually Green.
After some experimental clicking, it turns out the survey is not mechanically skewed (not saying anything about the ridiculous questions, just numerically).
For each question, the top answer is "Red", the bottom answer is "Blue". Answering 5/7, 6/6, or 7/5 results in "tipping", and it is actually symmetrical red/blue otherwise.
So here we have it. Absolute proof. Rock-solid science. Uncontaminated by "facts", which everyone knows are just a liberal conspiracy anyway: Republicans are RED, Dems are mixed up confused waffling flip/flopping red/blue fence-sitters, and Greens are the only true BLUEs.
:)
IRV, you didn't cheat and look at the html did you?
The choices are totally irrelvant to my life. I concluded that everything made you look red state so it's a useless quiz. Imagine choosing between Coors and Bud when there's Pete's wicked. of course you shop at Wall mart or the supermarket if you are a non red. dumb. So why am I paying attention at all. I think we take these things because in some way we want to be known, and placed, belonging among others. Oh yeah, that's me. Only here there's no chance. I tried to find a way to email them but the only contact numbers they have are sales.
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