Keelandson
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The CBC is flogging a federal election web quiz for voters called Vote Compass that purportedly tells whether the participant's choice of candidate/party is that which he/she thinks it is. According to the CBC, it's had 200,000 hits since it was set up yesterday.
So I took the plunge. According to it, I'm a Greenie, not an NDPer or Liberal. Whether the thing is accurate is another question. In my case it makes no difference, since no Greenie is running in my constituency.
Anyone from anywhere can take the thing, so anyone inside or outside Canada — whether rabidly or mildly interested in the Canadian federal election — can participate for a lark.
It begins by asking which constituency the participant lives in, or if that's unknown, the participant's postal code. When any website wants my postal code, I use the CBC building in whatever city I need it to be in (this time the CBC by coincidence). Toronto CBC's postal code, by the way, is M5W 1E6 — endlessly repeated on CBC radio.
There were 30 radio-button-choice questions (I think 30); one of them toward the end asks whether the participant is in Canada or elsewhere.
If I recall correctly the CBC-TV news item about it, the questions were written by University of Toronto students who took the idea from an idea developed in the Netherlands and used there.
The quiz needs Flash, so the CBC, as is typical, is years behind the technological curve — iPad/iPhone users need not apply. I took it first with Flash turned off, but the page telling me my true political affiliation — yeah, sure — was blank. I had to take it again.
But it had kept my choices in memory (I had turned on cookies), so I merely hit continue as each page appeared until I found out I'm a Greenie.
The only one who would not be surprised if my birth certificate said Mars would be Hugo Chavez.
So I took the plunge. According to it, I'm a Greenie, not an NDPer or Liberal. Whether the thing is accurate is another question. In my case it makes no difference, since no Greenie is running in my constituency.
Anyone from anywhere can take the thing, so anyone inside or outside Canada — whether rabidly or mildly interested in the Canadian federal election — can participate for a lark.
It begins by asking which constituency the participant lives in, or if that's unknown, the participant's postal code. When any website wants my postal code, I use the CBC building in whatever city I need it to be in (this time the CBC by coincidence). Toronto CBC's postal code, by the way, is M5W 1E6 — endlessly repeated on CBC radio.
There were 30 radio-button-choice questions (I think 30); one of them toward the end asks whether the participant is in Canada or elsewhere.
If I recall correctly the CBC-TV news item about it, the questions were written by University of Toronto students who took the idea from an idea developed in the Netherlands and used there.
The quiz needs Flash, so the CBC, as is typical, is years behind the technological curve — iPad/iPhone users need not apply. I took it first with Flash turned off, but the page telling me my true political affiliation — yeah, sure — was blank. I had to take it again.
But it had kept my choices in memory (I had turned on cookies), so I merely hit continue as each page appeared until I found out I'm a Greenie.
The only one who would not be surprised if my birth certificate said Mars would be Hugo Chavez.
