I think this test is a great idea. as in, it's more interesting than most of the stuff I've seen in the last few years.
But the test in itself is a bit weak in that it only gives 3 denominations and then 'classifies people' as 'close to ' something even when they're not.
If you get 1, left-liberals get 8, others get 10. It's meaningless to say you are 'closest to left liberals' even though it's true.
They should have many more types of political affiliations.
Secondly some of the questions were just silly and made my eyes roll. Which is why I didn't 'react' to them. (gave neutral answer) Because they were so obviously leading I would also have rolled my eyes if someone presented me with that situation IRL.
Secondly I differentiate FAIRNESS and JUSTICE. While I know that the best scenario statistically speaking is for Timmy or whatever his name is to share the money equally for MANY reasons. I still believe that it's 'ok' because who am I to tell Timmy what to do. His father says 'do what u want with it' and he's not breaking any laws.
So my not really 'reacting' to that is not because I don't value fairness, it's because I'm not a judgmental-prick moral nazi.
If Jack wants to tell a homeless guy 'don't talk to me loser': a) its his right to say that, if he's not harassing. b) the homeless guy also could talk to him, if he's not harassing. Yes on a personal level I would think he's a bit of an asshole. Though I don't have an exact context. But that doesn't mean it's my place to be like "well, as the ultimate judge of morals I shall tell whether it's okey or not".
I can just give the homeless guy 20 bucks to lift his mood up and help him out. Or I don't and I just give to a foundation which allows me to give more due to tax deductions. And is going to do more 'good' in the long run. Though I wouldn't feel that 'I feel good' moment and pat myself in the back just as much.
etc. etc.
Also as to the predictive power of the study:
I think most left liberals as they exist in western countries are short sighted idiots. Their definition does not reflect reality. Their definition is essentially, at least 75% of it, the definition of a fair healthy modern world human being. That is really NOT what most left-liberals are in fact. That's like saying that communists 'just want everyone to be equal'. That's retarded, it's forgetting that communism doesn't work because it goes against human nature and presenting it such a reductionist way as to lose most of the definitions' truth value. They might as well have used Zodiac signs and it would have been about as meaningful.
I agree much more with classical liberalism. Which has about nothing to do with left-liberalism as they define it.