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The link on facebook proposed a test. “Is your brain a Democrat or Republican” Is a democrat a noun, while republican is an adjective? I became curious about the test, and decided to brave the internet cooties and take the damn thing. If you had to sign in with a facebook account, I would have looked for amusement elsewhere. “Your brain is a Democrat” 36% conservative, 64% liberal.”
“27 strange non-political scenarios will appear. Please respond honestly and alone and we’ll guess your brain’s political ideology.” There are five options: Strongly Disagree, Mildly Agree, Neutral, Mildly Agree, and Strongly Agree. These choices generally make crunching the data a touch easier.
“I might be willing to try eating monkey meat, under some circumstances.”
This presumes you have not already, without your knowledge or consent.
“It would bother me to be in a science class, and to see a human hand preserved in a jar.”
Especially if it is political science. If it was algebra, this should be expected.
“It bothers me to hear someone clear a throat full of mucous.” It depends on what they say afterwards.
“I would go out of my way to avoid walking through a graveyard.” A road that I walk down sometimes, and drive on every day, goes between a cemetery, and a Primitive Baptist church. The church has contributed residents to the boneyard, and arguably is part of it. The thought of going a mile out of the way, to avoid this partnership, has never occurred to me. It is probably too late by this point.
“It would bother me tremendously to touch a dead body.” Or a live body, where the soul is dead?
“It would not upset me at all to watch a person with a glass eye take the eye out of the socket.”
There was a story, in a book about Tennessee Williams. Some people were having dinner in Key West. A man got upset, and threw his glass eye on the table. It landed in a bowl of soup. A lady fished the eye out of her soup with a spoon, and said “I think this belongs to you.”
“Even if I was hungry, I would not drink a bowl of my favorite soup if it had been stirred by a used but thoroughly washed flyswatter.” We do not know if the lady finished her soup.
“It would bother me to sleep in a nice hotel room if I knew that a man had died of a heart attack in that room the night before.” It depends on what he had been doing. I would be cautious about the pay-per-view. The breakfast is probably safe.
There were other statements that did not inspire supplemental commentary. On question 15, the options change. The new choices are “No Disgust, Slight Disgust, Moderate Disgust, Much Disgust, Extreme Disgust.” Enjoyment is not an option.
“You see maggots on a piece of meat in an outdoor garbage pail.”
It really depends on what animal the meat was taken from.
“You take a sip of soda, and then realize that you drank from the glass that an acquaintance of yours had been drinking from.” It depends on whether the glass is half empty, or half full.
“Your friend’s pet cat dies, and you have to pick up the dead body with your bare hands.”
With friends like that, who needs Republicans?
“You see someone put ketchup on vanilla ice cream, and eat it.”
Is it the same person who made you pick up a dead cat bare handed?
“A friend offers you a piece of chocolate shaped like dog doo.”
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer’s mom once said, to her son, “Jeff, I don’t like your friends.” “That’s ok mom, why don’t you try the mashed potatoes.”
“You see a person eating an apple with a knife and fork.”
Does amusement count? Many conservatives confuse amusement for disgust.
How does this work? There was a study, Nonpolitical Images Evoke Neural Predictors of Political Ideology “The study measured participants’ brain response to “disgusting” imagery using an MRI. The study could predict party affiliation with up to 98% confidence. The questionnaire on chartsme.com uses Jonathan Haidt’s disgust scale scale in lieu of MRI and imagery, so results are likely far less accurate. … the results for this test will be skewed for people who work in industries where they deal with “gross” things on a daily basis.” Pictures for this feature are from The Library of Congress.