Link: Compare your moral values to the general population

I took a similar test a while back... I ended up scoring what might be regarded as "textbook liberal", ranking "harm" and "fairness" important, "loyalty" and "authority" unimportant, and "purity" not important at all. One thing I thought the test failed to capture is that I do think "loyalty" and "authority" are important, but as means rather than as ends in themselves; they help human societies function, but it seems to me to be more moral to betray your loyalties and ignore authorities when the alternative is to let them lead you into evil.

Another benefit of these quizzes is that they can point out potential blind spots. For example, one quiz asks for opinions about punishment for crimes. If I discover I'm an outlier w.r.t. the population, I should reconsider whether my opinions are based on solid evidence (or did I see one study that found tit-for-tat punishment effective in a certain context, and take that as gospel?).

It'd be interesting to have a quizz that also includes questions on what you think other people think - i.e. how well do you know which of your views differ from those of others?

May I suggest a warning label for significant time sink?

If you're a libertarian, you might be interested in Haidt's recent work, adding a sixth moral foundation (liberty) to the original five. Libertarians generally score low for the usual five, but when tested on liberty, they score much higher than liberals and conservatives.

The tests don't seem to have any adjustments for self-delusion- more people are likely to actually be against things because they find them disgusting then would say so.

I want error bars!

I'm beginning to be skeptical about research that tries to show that basic moral orientations, personality types, or even genes correspond to liberal, conservative, and libertarian.

Looking historically and globally, not all political party conflicts aligned as "left" and "right," and the idea of a distinctively libertarian ideology, neither left nor right, is probably no more than fifty years old. Tories vs. Whigs might be called a left/right split. But what about Jacobins and Girondins? Federalists and Anti-Federalists? 19th-century Democrats and Republicans?

If there are fundamental categories distinguishing different kinds of human personalities, and if they're supposed to explain political views, then it's a problem if they only explain current (and predominantly American) political views.

my results

my values

Haha, I care less about everything else than average on everything (except self-direction).

I'm also interested to hear how people scored on the meaning of life

and causality. (as you see, my attributions on context are highest, which I suspect the same to be for most LWers). I'm a heavy reader on behavioral genetics research (and have Attention Deficit Disorder myself), so my ratings on ability and effort tend to be low.

Moral foundations for sacredness: average amount of money I'd need to be paid to do something potentially immoral

on activities i would never do for any amount of money

relativism and idealism scale (old test)

Haidt gives a pretty good TED lecture on his model of morality.

I find it interesting how many more liberals have taken it than conservatives. Any hypotheses?

results here

values survey Apparently I'm unusual. I care more about achievement than liberals or conservatives, but I care less about everything else!