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Originally Posted by #-3
I'll actually might somewhat retract my statement, as I go deeper into the quiz I think think it's possible that the questions are just very poorly written in leading ways based on whoever is currently winning the narrative on a topic. It just happened that 3 of the first 6 were written that way in 1 direction. If you look at their results, you can see the problem on their statistics, where most of the problems are overweighted towards the edges in either direction.
When asking a question you should not qualify it in a way that no party is openly advocating for, but leads into a characterization that the parties opposition is making.
What I'll stand by, is if kids can take this quiz, they can just take the normal vote compass, which is done with a little more care for not leading the questions, even when it is obvious what they are getting at.
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I can agree with this looking through the civix website they appear to be doing good work around media literacy so I don’t think there is intentional right bias here.
But Vote compass (CBC) does the same thing on the budget question. The deficit should be reduced EVEN if it means reducing public services
Also the carbon tax question is absolutely correct that it increases cost of goods even when fully rebated. If you price an externality it increases cost. If the carbon tax increases the cost of something and someone makes a product that is more expensive than base and less expensive then taxed the cost went up and the pool to cover the carbon tex went down. It’s the entire point of it. When looking at the entire lifecycle and externalities of the tax the PBO found that people would be slightly worse off.
I think it’s important to discuss government as a series of tradeoffs so qualifying the consequences of an option is important to the discussion. Every question on spending should be qualified with even if that means higher taxes or increased deficits
I think the advantage of the civix tool is that it looks like you can sign your class up and compare opinions of just your students. So I think it does add value.