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This is a test like the SAT that tests potential candidates on
basic economic theory, the leaders of countries around the
world, their type of government and current major global
conflicts.
The scores are posted next to the candidates name on the
ballot.
Of course with tutoring a candidate
can increase his/her
score by as much as 200, but at least they'll have to study that
stuff.
"Internet of Lies"
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm
From the Urban Legends website: Al Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet. [Uncle Nutsy, Jul 14 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
(?) Composition of the House of Lords
http://www.parliament.uk/works/locomp.cfm
"Since the House of Lords Act 1999, only 92 peers sit by virtue of hereditary peerage, 75 of whom were elected by their respective party groups." [calum, Oct 22 2002]
(?) Gregg Keizer, Omni Magazine: GDAT (1992)
http://www.findarti..._n2_v15/ai_12811763
fictitious Game and Digital Aptitude Test for testing presidential candidates [jutta, Oct 06 2005]
Small Enterprise Test
Small_20Enterprise_20Test
Similar [8th of 7, Dec 07 2017]
[link]
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Well, J.K.Galbraith may have said it best: "Given the alternatives of changing or proving there is no reason to change, most people get busy with the proof." |
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I get the feeling you could post a candidate's IQ, shoe size, SAT score, SPEE score, golf handicap, or their SIN number and get the same result. Politics today is more about image, and the best candidate does not always win. Just call me the pessimistic Canuck. |
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There should also be a "common sense" section on this test. I think that's what's been missing lately. |
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UnaBubba: Actually, no, and he never said he did. See link; also, see link to Vint Cerf's assessment of the accuracy of what Gore *did* claim. |
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Ack! Someone get me off this tilt-and-hurl... |
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The spin on that is incredible...He said 'I took the initiative in creating the Internet.'. Quoted from their own site, and from the CNN site that had the transcription of the interview. Vint Cerf just said that Gore 'made it a point to be well informed'. |
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Oh, sure, what he actually did say was still def stupid, and the Urban Legends people (accurately) describe it as self-serving. But it wasn't what people always quote, and I can't abide inaccuracy. |
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This is a really good idea. I've often thought that if we (in the UK) are to have an unelected second chamber then it should be populated by leading academics, rather than people who's great great great uncle once trod on a tribesman. You could instal a requirement to have a balence of academics from the sciences, Arts and medicine to complement all the lawyers who are politicians anyway. With some strengthening of powers they could provide a much needed intellectual control on governance. |
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There should be just one question in this exam: "Do you want to be a politician?" |
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The way to make this work is to do it live on TV and to make it optional. Candidates who actually know about civic institutions, law, economics, and domestic & international issues would be proud, greeedy even, to display their knowledge before the people. Moron candidates (You know who I mean) would need to fumble about with lame excuses as to why they can't take the test, or need to use a substitute lackey just like they do in the real world. |
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To make it fun and educational for the people the questions could be read aloud and the correct answers displayed on the TV screen. Or it could be simul-webcast and people could take the test at the same time and the aggregate results of the people displayed - thereby forming a healthy competition between the people and the candidate. |
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I was just going to post an idea about IQ testing for
politicians...but it turns out that you beat me to it
and I already bunned it years ago... |
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Unfortunately, some people are smart in ways that you
don't want them to be. Example: [The Alterother] |
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"Every Communist must grasp the truth; "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." |
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"Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224. Mao |
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So a test of ability to load, fire and clean a gun would seem a requirement. |
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^//seem// sp. "be". The "free speech" bit is a given for politicians, though perhaps content of same might be a metric. |
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//There should also be a "common sense" section on
this test.// |
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"common sense", as someone else once said, is
simply the aggregate of all of one's prejudices and is
by no rational measure a useful thing on its own. |
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Maybe it just needs a better aggregation algorithm... |
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One of those great ideas that will never happen. |
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"Are you willing to take this suitcase full of campaign
contribution cash in return for doing the bidding of
your new owners when you get into office?" |
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If you answered "Yes" you've passed. If you answered
"No" you've failed |
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A click on the [random] button brings up this timely gem .... I saw a quote attributed to Mark Hanna circa 1894 that went like "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember the second." |
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