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Did it.
The political question was dumb. why can't I pick "FAI" or "rational consequentialist".
I really liked the CFAR questions. MORE OF THOSE.
The political compass questions were very ADBOC and generally meaningless. Apparently I'm left libertarian, whatever that means.
The Big 5 test was suspect on some things. Am I really lowest quartile conscientiousness and agreeableness? I defy the data.
The iq test was fun and challenging. Got 133, which is also what I've gotten on previous iq tests.
The autism test was utterly without interpretation. What does 18 mean?
EDIT: sorry I'm being so negative, a good survey overall. Maybe this is where the low agreeableness comes from.
The Political Compass isn't that great for handling nuanced opinions. It mostly seems to test agreement with partisan slogans, some of them quite far out of date, and the wording subtly favors the libertarian interpretation in a lot of cases; as such it's a decent metric of ideological affiliation, especially if you're somewhere on the libertarian spectrum, but it gets a lot noisier as soon as you start forming your own opinions. The tendency to use absolute phrasing ("must", "every", etc.) is especially problematic for a consequentialist.
If this is normed like the last autism-spectrum test I saw, the cutoff point for autistic tendencies (bearing in mind the usual caveats about Internet self-testing) is somewhere in the low to mid-20s. Lower means you're more likely to be considered neurotypical along that spectrum, higher means an autism (or, historically, AS) diagnosis is more likely.
How to read the autism score was explained on the test page itself.
quote: "Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives."
So a score above 32 means you are highly likely of being autistic.