The primary goal is that participants do poorly on the “other side” section.
You may want to re-formulate this sentence :-)
The obvious problem is that the "other side" is rarely uniform. You typically get a mix of smart and honest people (but with different values), people who are in there for power and money, the not-too-smart ones duped by propaganda, the edgelords who want attention (and/or the lulz), the social conformists, etc.
Some, but not all are stupid. Some, but not all, are evil.
The nuance you articulate in the last sentence is kind of the point I'm trying to make. I think many on the fringes would disagree with you.
Further, if such metaquizzes can suggest that in this case "some" is more like "very few", and not "actually quite a lot", I think we'd be in better political shape!
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