Has anyone you know IRL taken ISideWith or another politics quiz? What was their result?

[West_Midlander]

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[No War, but the War on Christmas]

My best friend isn't nearly as into politics as I am but we actually took one of the popular political preference tests while getting lunch once. She's one of those people who is very much socially liberal but likes to say that she isn't with 'either side' and I believe her results were somewhere in the middle as expected.

Though as is usually the case in my experience with these breezy day moderates when you actually get into the nitty gritty regarding the kind of society they want and policies they support they almost invariably line up with almost all major Democratic priorities.

[West_Midlander]

My best friend isn't nearly as into politics as I am but we actually took one of the popular political preference tests while getting lunch once. She's one of those people who is very much socially liberal but likes to say that she isn't with 'either side' and I believe her results were somewhere in the middle as expected.

Though as is usually the case in my experience with these breezy day moderates when you actually get into the nitty gritty regarding the kind of society they want and policies they support they almost invariably line up with almost all major Democratic priorities.

I think your experience is right. My mother is one example. She scored 87%-8% agreement with the Democrats>GOP on ISideWith and got Social Democrat on 8 values. Her views and her votes are her own and I'm not going to try to influence them but I don't think she would ever vote for an R although she is nominally bipartisan/moderate. Her highest score was with the Greens at 89%, just btw.

And I might as well say, one of my brothers got 86%-35% agreement w/ Dems>GOP and Liberal on those two tests and my other brother got 68%-41% D>R and Centrist. In comparison, I got 62%-65% (GOP +3) with ASP at 74 and Centrist on 8 values most recently.

Notably, I also got the most economically left score (around -5/-6) when I was more to the left when we plotted our scores for political matrix for a civics course in high school.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

They used to have a feature (probably in 2016) where you could see the results and answers for any of your Facebook friends who had taken it.

[the artist formerly known as catmusic]

I took one with my friend that ended up saying she was an anarcho-communist and she was very taken aback by it lmao. I'm sure I've done it a few times with others, pretty sure I did ISideWith once to help a friend know who to vote for in a governor primary.

I did the political compass with a bunch of friends once, because we're all nerds. Fun times.

[Vosem]

I recall during the 2012 election at my high school people were often upset because whatever test had gone viral didn't give them the candidate they believed they wanted (in fact in both directions). My closest friend at the time, who came from a pretty Democratic family, took the test and got Romney by some ridiculous margin; good times. (Generally people I am close to pretty much always turn out to be right-wing when you get down into nitty-gritty details, but I think -- for me and Primadonna Socialist -- there is probably a selection effect at play here.)

[Battista Minola 1616]

I had my immediate family take the Political Matrix test here once, my father ended up auth-right, my mother sort of "auth-centre" and my sister lib-right, none of which is surprising.