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Pew Research Center Anonymous asked: For the political typology questions why does the quiz force people to take an either/or far left or far right position? Great question! We get this feedback a lot, so we wrote a handy FAQ to help you out. The short answer is, the “forced choice” construction of the Typology Quiz is part of its design. The question picks up on which of two statements on a core value people lean towards, and does not necessarily presume complete agreement with a question. And because the typology quiz includes 23 questions, many of which measure closely related concepts—for instance, there are three more questions in the quiz that pick up on the same theme about the relationship between government and support for the poor—no one statement alone dictates which group you’ll end up in. Put differently, while individual questions may not allow for nuance, the combination of questions does. ocehn asked: tysm for being so great! Thank you! — But the distribution of the population is changing.