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Good news everyone! We now have a formal, scientific scale for measuring wokeness! You can find the related preprint here.
Finland's newspaper of record, Helsingin Sanomat (HS) summarizes the meaning of "wokeness" (it's called "woke" in Finnish too, using the untranslated term - of course, it's an Anglo concept, after all).
Later on some unsurprising results:
HS has used this study to create an (intentionally facile) wokeness test. I'm linking to the original Finnish version, Google Translate couldn't get it to work. It's below the researcher guy's picture, clicking "Näytä lisää" will expand it. "Täysin samaa mieltä" means "Fully agree", "Jokseenkin samaa mieltä" means "Somewhat agree", "Jokseenkin eri mieltä" is "Somewhat disagree" and "Täysin eri mieltä" means "Fully disagree". The max score is 30.
The claims are:
Human species has two biological genders.
Trans women are women.
It is not right to limit a privileged person's right to speech.
Trans women in Olympics do not advance women's rights.
One should not say things that might offend a disadvantaged person's feelings.
We don’t need to talk more about the color of people’s skin.
University reading lists should include fewer white and European authors.
The police are by definition a racist institution.
If white people have on average a higher level of income than black people, it is because of oppression.
A white person cannot understand how a black person feels.
That seems like a completely facile test indeed. I would give the "non-woke" answer on 100% of those questions, which I'm sure would place me somewhere interesting on the political spectrum, and completely disconnected from where I actually am.
Of course the test has all the usual disadvantages of requiring binary answers to complicated questions.
How would the test misclassify you? Your role in this community seems completely consistent with a wokeness score of 0%.
Someone who infers "anti-woke" somehow means republican or right-wing in any way is wrong, but that's not a problem with the test.
I don't know about that - I am sometimes willing to steelman woke positions, and I am what passes as a liberal hereabouts. Which is the problem with that test: my answers and those of bonafide right-wing white nationalist would be indistinguishable. While the truly woke and the typical sneerclubber might consider that accurate, I think not.
I'm not sure a white nationalist and a classical liberal would be indistinguishable on 6.
I am not exactly sure if that is the case. Question: We don’t need to talk more about the color of people’s skin.
Yes, I believe in MLK colorblindness and we should talk less.
No, we should talk more specifically about phasing out things like affirmative action
Yes, the current level of talk including affirmative action and some woke stuff feels to me just about right
No, we should talk more about racialist policies such as Kendi's Department of Anti-racism
No, we should talk about white replacement and unsustainable immigration
For instance 1. and 2. to me seems stemming from similar sentiment but it gets you different questionnaire answer. And of course 5. and 6. are polar opposites on "wokeness scale" although the have the same questionnaire answer. The questionnaire is weird in this way.
Yes, the 4-1-5 horseshoe was exactly my point. 2 feels like a failure of test taking ability in the context of an anti-woke test, phasing out AA is more naturally a "talk less about race than currently" option. 3 is possible, though it is a fairly noncommittal stance and the original test was on a 4-point scale.
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