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Answering a Series of Questions About Disgust Can Identify Your Political Party

Wednesday, 3 August 2016, 13:15 BFH Uncategorized 49

It guessed that I was a Republican. Close enough.

Take the test.

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49 Comments on Answering a Series of Questions About Disgust Can Identify Your Political Party

  2. It claimed I’m a Demonrat.
    But there’s a difference between “disgust” and “amused” that seems to be lost on the test designers. I don’t want to watch anyone eat anything – not just ketchup on ice cream. I also don’t know anything, whatsoever, about my friends’ underwear – cuz I don’t ask – and don’t give a fuck.

    izlamo delenda est …

  11. I have a Dem brain. In my defense, I have been married to a bordering on neurotic clean freak for 20 years. And she is Trump’s #1 fan. Maybe we are both not Republicans anmore?

  13. I work in the most liberal state in the U.S. for one of the most liberal corporations in the world surround by the most liberal people on the planet. Based on my real-world experience, this test is total B.S.

    Liberals are the most sqeamish critters on the planet.

  18. How does this work?

    A 2014 study concluded that people who were more prone to disgust are more conservative and tend to align with the republican party. But, why?

    Some scientists believe it’s ancestral and that the adverse reactions were used to protect primitive ancestors from contamination and disease. This way a person wouldn’t confuse drinking water with dirty pond scum.

    The study measured participants’ brain response to “disgusting” imagery using an MRI. The study could predict party affiliation with up to 98% confidence. The questionaire on chartsme.com uses Jonathan Haidt’s disgust scale in lieu of MRI and imagery, so results are likely far less accurate. Watch TED Talk to learn more or read “Yuck!: The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust”.

  20. Complete bullshit. I wasn’t disgusted by much listed. Where were the questions about seeing a hairy lib woman in a thong or a sniveling beta male college kid wailing in a safe space over something “mean” a conservative said?

  27. Test seems to imply that liberals are disgusting. The correlation between being disgusting and tolerating disgusting things doesn’t necessarily exist.
    Got a score of 81% Republican. Based on the test’s criteria it makes me look like a wimp.

  28. Conservative (24%)

    Funny, the stuff they asked. This test does not take into account that I spent over twenty years in the Infantry, already have eaten monkey, don’t care if you puke as long as it isn’t on my food, drink warm water from a friend’s canteen, don’t care what you put on your ice cream, have carried dead bodies, patched up someone with their intestines showing, and seeked cover in a piss smelly ditch.

    Testing tolerance to ickyness has nothing to do with liberal/conservative leanings. So I’m also calling BULLFAZOO!

  30. Flawed study. I’m a cop, so, I’m not squeamish about things most people are. But I am also very conservative. So the study will fail with most conservatives who are….

    Cops
    Doctors
    Nurses
    Soldiers
    Firefighters
    Mob accountants
    Kindergarten teachers
    Mothers

    😆

  31. It called me 90% liberal, so yeah this test is nonsense. While I agree that I’m definitely an outlyer from the normal people taking this test (I’m active duty Army, and a Pathologist – I regularly perform autopsies on dead people, some in varying stages of decay) and my disgust threshold is a lot higher than most.

    But even so, liberals in my experience are the most squeamish, candyassed people on the planet. Especially liberal “men”.

  33. I was 73% Dem. I was disgusted by little. The implication is that conservatives are easily disgusted? Afraid not. This test was designed by liberals for some nefarious purpose. Just like most lib pols.

  34. I got 94% Conservative and 6% Liberal. Still, the test is utter and complete BS. What kind of statement to agree/disagree with is, “I would rather eat a piece of fruit than a piece of paper”? Do the asshats who came up with this test think that Conservatives eschew fruit?

  36. Nonsense! Seeing stuff that’s gross or finding out someone only changes underwear twice a week does not disgust me. If it asked would I eat maggot meat or lick dirty underwear then obviously I would be disgusted. But the mere sight or knowledge of something doesn’t connect me to it.

  38. 79% conservative. Interesting the reason “why?” Looks like conservatives are going to eventually win the Darwin award by avoiding disgusting things.

    I have a hair trigger gag reflex. I faint at the sight of my own blood, children’s loose teeth, and if you describe an accident *you* had, like jamming a sliver up your fingernail or banging your shin on something sharp, I can literally feel your pain. Overactive empathic reaction. I can’t watch violent movies or look at scenes of violence or listen to tales of wisdom teeth removal. I barely survived my own! haha!

  40. I saw this at the bottom of the conclusion page:
    “Want to annoy all your conservative friends and family?”
    There you go – this was set up just to piss us off.
    You were successful.

  41. Eugenia…. eating monkey meat…that was one of the things I thought, plus EBOLA. No Thanks!
    I’m surprised they didn’t ask about eating BUGS. Only liberals are into that stuff!

    This test is bogus. There’s no way in heck, I’m a DEMON (67%).

  45. I lied on some of the questions which is how I got the R rating..
    When I was a very young kid I used to watch my dad gut and clean fish while eating lunch. I would point to parts and ask what they were. My mother and brother would be hiding behind a tree gagging.

    Now I catch, clean and cook my own fish. Shoot, dress and cook one or two Bambi’s a year.

    I never learned to be squeamish.
    Thanks Dad for all the life lessons.

    Screw you liberals who demand for others clean your messes and need gov’t help in wiping your sorry asses.
    Screw you liberals who think food comes out of a synthesizer and on to grocery store shelves.

  47. It said I was 61% liberal. That is total and complete BS. I have never been a liberal/Democrat, never, ever, ever. I’d like to know how they come up with this rating.

  48. Wotta pantload!

    I am 78% Dhimmi!

    This test relies on stereotypes. I knew I was in trouble from the first question about eating monkey meat. I’m a vegetarian–sue me! And what do I GAFF about whether someone puts ice cream on ketchup? It’s a free country after all. And my squeamish factor is very low ’cause my Marine-sargeant daddy didn’t raise no pussy children!

  49. Typing my second thoughts on the matter en route to work.

    A lot of these disgust parameters are based on either unchangeable genetic or life experience attributes. I have bad allergies that definitely disable a good bit of my capacity to smell, so what passes as “disgust” to most people barely registers with me. And of course, witnessing a bloody episode as a young child might very well catalyze a lifelong aversion to the sight of blood. It is ridiculous and unfair to connect these trends to political philosophies.

    As an alternative testing matrix based on sociopolitical belief, I propose the YONKERS DISGUST TEST: FAMILY COURT VERSION, with a few sample questions:

    1. Do you find it offensive that people can live in this country for a decade or more without developing a passable fluency in the English language?

    2. Does the prospect of having to support entire families of coarse, vulgar, uneducated, illeterate, unskilled illegal aliens via Federal/local benefit programs disturbed you?

    3. There’s a 300-lb. woman wearing a sweatshirt sitting in the chair in your cubicle. The pants are falling down and the sweatshirt is hiked up, revealing the multiple rolls of fat that comprise the woman’s midsection. How badly do you want to vomit?

    4. A 22-year-old woman has five (5) children by four (4). Does your Slut-o-Meter immediately register a strong 11.3 on a scale of 1 to 10?

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