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I got no common sense. DH answered all the Tory answers for a laugh and got invited to join their WhatsApp group..

It's so scary. Funny because we are cynical and savvy. But their target is young people interested in 'activism',. I am suddenly grateful for my sociology class who got activism and activity mixed up.

Mormons are relentless.

@noblegiraffe

That Turning Point quiz is dreadful, they should never have taken identifying bias in questionnaires off the GCSE syllabus.

Well and don’t you wonder why it might have disappeared?

[quote Piggywaspushed]hahhahahhaha.Hilarious!

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Hilarious. Might try it out with my 6th formers this week.

I have 50% common sense apparently. If there'd been any 'it depends' or 'where's the common sense non polarised view' options my score would be rather different.

They congratulated me and invited me to watch more videos. Questions like do you think all inequality is caused by discrimination - there was no, 'not all but clearly a fair chunk of it' or, 'no but our economic system clearly creates a fair amount of it'. So I couldn't say yes I think ALL inequality is caused by discrimination therefore I'm a tory????

Agreed - worst survey ever. Makes Myers-Briggs look scientific.

So bored of polarised, over simplified crap in our politics now.

The most hilarious question was 'Churchill was a' a hero b) a villain

Bring back nuance!!

Goodness knows what Autumn will look like. Even if vaccinated teachers are safe from severe infection in the main they can still catch it, albeit mildly, they'll still need to isolate. Or are they going to say teachers can work through covid too?

I know Piggy! Where was the, I don't know, never studied him option?? Or well in some ways a) in other ways b)?

So skewered.

I'm apparently a Tory too honey, because like you I was looking for nuance and more than just yes/no answers. It was a truly awful quiz.

Mormons tried to convert me once, while I was crying in a park in Brisbane. They chatted to me for a while, then realized I had just discovered I was pregnant, split up with my boyfriend and lost my job, all in the space of one weekend. Suddenly they didn't think I was worth converting any more

I spend my professional life encouraging children to move away from over simplistic views like villain or hero and deliberately teaching them to be able to say, in some ways x could be seen as a hero because...... however in other ways/by other groups he could be seen as a villain for example.... this meant that.... etc.

We did an essay on Cromwell directly along those lines quite recently with year 7. If they hadn't looked at it from both sides they'd have failed. What is wrong with these people that encourage less nuanced thinking from adults than we do from low ability 11 year olds?

The most hilarious question was 'Churchill was a' a hero b) a villain

Russell Kane could sort that one out in an episode of Evil Genius.

DH also got offered introductions to "significant Conservatives" via zoom. Bonkers.

Oh MsAD - we're doomed to hell AND tories???

@TheHoneyBadger

Bring back nuance!!

Goodness knows what Autumn will look like. Even if vaccinated teachers are safe from severe infection in the main they can still catch it, albeit mildly, they'll still need to isolate. Or are they going to say teachers can work through covid too?

I presume unless our symptoms are such that we cannot manage to work, we will be expected to work through Covid. A bit like the 'struggle in unless actively vomiting or hallucinating' has been normal practice for years....

I want to be introduced to significant conservatives.

I can set you up with Lehain??

So, 3 of your answers displayed some common sense, but it looks like the rest didn't...

Ha.

Oh crikey, piggy, I’d hate to make Herc jealous.

Russell Kane could sort that one out in an episode of Evil Genius.

Or maybe Harry Hill.

I am actually annoyed I showed common sense once as I was trying entirely to wind them up to see what happened.

@TheHoneyBadger

Oh MsAD - we're doomed to hell AND tories???

I feel much better about my eternal damnation now I know you'll be there to keep me company. With your Tory tendencies.

@noblegiraffe

I want to be introduced to significant conservatives.

Are you planning on killing them? That's the only reason I'd ever want to be introduced to significant conservatives. Or perhaps some light torture, except they'd probably like that.

@noblegiraffe

I want to be introduced to significant conservatives.

That’s something I’d pay to see

Ah MrsAD it will be very confusing. Not conservative enough for the Mormons with our out of wedlock child bearing yet conservative enough to be labelled tories. Hopefully we'll find the secret gin stash and hide from the right wing American fundamentalist Christians.

I'm finally having the energy to catch up on the Cummings testimony. I'm now strangely confused about how I feel about Cummings too. Maybe the sorting system does have nuance and we'll get purgatory instead. The committee is all ah but you're the most powerful person why didn't you sort it out but I can well see how when you're up against a wall of scientists and data and graphs and specialists saying ah it's all grand let them all catch it and we'll be fine by September it would be seriously fucking difficult to trust your own understanding and come out and say no, that's rubbish and we need to act now.

Dear Lord. I'm feeling sympathy for Cummings! What on earth is happening?

One of the committee was claiming he was the most powerful person in no.10 - that's a fucking huge responsibility to put on an unelected, non scientist whose having to go against a massive consensus of it's all fine and the actual people in charge going off on skiing holidays.

I'm beginning to think the levels of public opinion manipulation go many layers deeper than we've penetrated.