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I almost always get the exact dead center on these sorts of quizzes, and I did again here. I feel unless you go into the test saying to yourself "I want to get as [BASED/COMMUNIST] as possible!!" it is hard to get anything but centrist. Most of the statements put up for agreement are so absolutist that there is only really one reasonable response.
I think a lot depends on which arrow intensity you click on. I interpret the outermost arrows as "would I go full Unabomber/join mass protests/emigrate over this issue?", the middle ones as "would these affect my vote?" and the innermost ones as "would I defend this position on The Motte?", so I practically never click the outermost ones. Someone who has a different interpretation might click the outermost ones without a second thought.
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If one builds a test broad enough to incorperate the full spectrum of political thought, then we would expect to see people tending to cluster around the middle simply due to the central limit theorem. I have seen people on Twitter around the edges for what it's worth.
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