On vague intuitions and honesty

No, you almost certainly haven't thought 'deeply' about your opinions

Somewhere near Utah Beach, last weekend

Let's do a live test to demonstrate the vacuity of even a reasonably intelligent, thinking person.

This would be your writer.

Clearer Thinking have offered a 'political biases' test and I'm going to share it in real time.

Here goes ...

The test is here. See how you fare. Maybe before reading on.

[Spoiler for people who don’t venture behind the paywall: it turns out that I score higher than 95% of test takers on political knowledge and have 0% political bias. Meaning that I don’t reject facts if they don’t suit my views.

This was a surprise. A pleasant surprise, though, since I’ve consciously striven to get past emoting all over the place and feel extremely sceptical around the usual blather about ‘values’ and such. My political opinions seem to be more rooted in verifiable facts than most - at least according to Clearer Thinking dot org. And there was me being all self-deprecating.]

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Meanwhile, a mea culpa about last week's piece.

Good heading. Great heading, in fact, because something in there was indeed wrong.

It's the part which speculates on which unit a certain soldier served in. Now updated.

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Exposing my political biases. With swearing. Lots of swearing.

I promise not to cheat. I'll take the test and share what flicked through my mind as I intuitively respond to each question.

Feel free to maintain that your political views are better informed. More intelligent. Just as I used to.

[Annoyingly it's an American test, with American terminology, so bear that in mind]