Circle or Not? Political Poll

[hislegacy]

Well it ain't a triangle.

Then I read the link. And laughed and laughed.

 

[Tallguy88]

I see hardcove liberals and hardcore conservatives voting both ways. Pretty well blows the article's premise up. It's a better indicator of how logical and analytical vs artistic and creative a person is.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

The problem is, they picked an example with an answer that is 100% provable with nothing more than a ruler, a pen, and paper. Math/geometry isn't liberal or conservative. It just is.

I'm about as liberal as they come but the first thing I thought was that it's not a circle. If you ask me to picture a circle I would never picture a shaky roundish shape like the one in the OP.

 

[Job8]

This isn't about the "definition", it's about the "perception".

Since this is about liberal perception, then this image below is also a circle:

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Since this is about liberal perception, then this image below is also a circle:

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90 degrees x 4 corners = 360 degrees.

 

[TerranceL]

The problem is, they picked an example with an answer that is 100% provable with nothing more than a ruler, a pen, and paper. Math/geometry isn't liberal or conservative. It just is.

Pretty much. It either is or it isn't.

 

[tulc]

Man KarateCowboy and I agree completely about something...I think that may be a sign of the Apocalypse.
tulc(will drink some coffee and watch the world burn)

 

[KarateCowboy]

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90 degrees x 4 corners = 360 degrees.

That was wonderfully clever. Well done

 

[nightflight]

Its a Salon circle, ugly and malformed.

 

[zippy2]

And yes, this is actually a political test. Do I need to explain or can you guess?

Source: Salon.com

I said it was a circle and I am a conservative. Guess I am the exception that proves the rule?

 

[Albion]

Since this is about liberal perception, then this image below is also a circle:

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The point may be that Liberalism deals unapologetically in half-truths while Conservatives go towards precision and so are offended at sweeping generalizations being presented as thought they were facts. But OTOH, it's probably possible to reach any number of conclusions about the "circle" and the way we've voted.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Can we all agree that reading Salon isn't usually worth the effort?

Didn't it used to be better when it was first created?

 

[Tallguy88]

Can we all agree that reading Salon isn't usually worth the effort?

Didn't it used to be better when it was first created?

It used to have good articles. Nowadays it seems like buzzfeed.

Sadly, NPR is going the same way. I had to unlike them on Facebook, the articles were so bad.

 

[zippy2]

Can't trust anything ya read anymore.

 

[JustOneWay]

indeed. I read the post above mine, and I am having a hard time trusting what it says....

Lol.

I did the circle test the other day, and determined it was dumb.

 

[SnowyMacie]

Yeah, it's sort of a circle but it's not. TBH, if I drew a circle, that's probably what it would look like so I voted yes.

 

[JustOneWay]

Yeah, it's sort of a circle but it's not.

Yes.

Would that make you a moderate?

 

[Albion]

Yeah, it's sort of a circle but it's not. TBH, if I drew a circle, that's probably what it would look like so I voted yes.

But if it's only "sort of a circle" it isn't actually a circle. It is merely similar to one.

If you draw a circle yourself and it's poorly done, you can still make use of it, but that's because anyone looking at it understands your intent, not that it actually constitutes a real circle.

 

[SnowyMacie]

Yes.

Would that make you a moderate?

I guess?

 

[SnowyMacie]

But if it's only "sort of a circle" it isn't actually a circle. It is merely similar to one.

Which is why I said, "but it's not". The reason I voted yes is because the OP/author's hypothesis has already been falsified so I decided to just have fun with the poll.

If you draw a circle yourself and it's poorly done, you can still make use of it, but that's because anyone looking at it understands your intent, not that it actually constitutes a real circle.

As someone already stated in the thread, we can tell it looks like a poor attempt at drawing a circle.