No Surprise

You scored as Serenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and don’t enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you.

Serenity (Firefly)

88%

Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)

81%

SG-1 (Stargate)

75%

Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)

69%

Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)

63%

Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)

63%

Enterprise D (Star Trek)

63%

Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)

56%

Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)

56%

Moya (Farscape)

50%

Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)

25%

FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)

25%

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There’s a problem with the quiz, though (as there often are with these things).

I wasn’t quite sure how to answer the very first question:

“Peace is achieved through large single government rule (agree, disagree).

Well, I agree that this is certainly a way to achieve peace, but there seems to be a presumption to this (or at least an implication) that peace is an unalloyed good. As some anti-war types are fond of pointing out, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was largely at peace (if you don’t count the random murders and torture that he occasioned on his own people), but it was hardly a desirable state. So I answered yes, but I’m not sure how that answer was interpreted by the test creators.

Also, interestingly, I see that when I go back to look at the quiz, the order of the questions is different. They must randomize it.

[Via Alan Henderson]

[Late morning update]

The more I think about it, the more I suspect that the “peace” question lowered my Firefly score. I think that whoever wrote the question did assume that a) peace is a desirable thing, per se and b) everyone would agree with that–the only issue is how it’s best achieved. What’s the flip side of that question? “Peace is achieved through multiple government rule?” “Peace is achieved through minimalist government?” “Peace is achieved through a well-armed citizenry?” This was a really unuseful question, as posed.