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Caroline Schoeder

I should vote!

Posted in Politics by Riskable on the October 31st, 2006

According to dontvote.org I should definitely vote!

I should vote


I only got two questions wrong:

  • I didn’t recognize Elizabeth II (queen of England)
  • I didn’t recognize Christina Aguilera (pop culture pretty face)

    Fortunately neither of those women are important when it comes to United States politics.

    I was worried that the site might be used as a tool to discourage certain citizens from voting. It turns out that my fears were overblown. The questions were generally very easy (unless you suffer from prosopagnosia) and I can’t imagine how anyone would consider the test slanted or biased in some way.

    On the other hand, I don’t think it is a very good test. It has less to do with having basic knowledge of politics and more to do with recognizing the faces of political leaders. For instance, I know who Ban Ki-moon is but I’ve never seen his face since I listen to NPR and read most of my political news as text. The only reason I got the question correct was because I knew the picture was not one of the other options (process of elimination). A better test would not involve pictures at all.

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