0 hits, bit 0 bullets. 100% consistent.
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Has anyone tried the religious belief consistency test?
- Thread starter Evangelicalhumanist
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PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I consider the test good in the form of quizzes & games, but a bit lacking if you use it to make life decisions. Not saying anyone is going to do the latter, but just giving an example of my thoughts.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
No, it just requires you to be logically consistent.
And lets look over this thread. Are there any examples pointing out what's wrong with it? Is anything problematic explained? Have any alternatives or better questions been proposed? No, no, no and no.
It's a thread of people saying "I didn't get 100% so there's a problem with the test" and giving undergrad sociology 101 responses to problems with testing asked outside of the culture it was born.
Most members here are Western and can be assumed to not have any wildly differing approaches (such as it's a reasonable assumption we have a basic and similar understanding of what the Loch Ness monster is supposed to be).
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
It doesn't test short term memory (mine is crap). Reading isn't really tested, but it helps.
You apparently didn't notice some questions overlap. It really is checking for consistent answers.
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
Possibly because I bailed at 5.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
To be clear, I wasn't saying that myself. Some might have been, though.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
Yeah, you have be some what Western and understand logic. It is biased.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
So you're judging something you didn't even make it half way through.Possibly because I bailed at 5.
Good job! Should we assume you don't fully evaluate anything, making assumptions while willfully limiting your knowledge amd exposure, and just leave things half finished and never actually know the ending?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Amd everyone complaining is Western.
Looks like some people aren't as good as they claim or think.
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
Well, I complain because I am the best
kind of Westerner. A cognitive, moral and cultural relativist. 
Bunk test. They failed my first test at the 2nd question!
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
For what it matters, my position is that looking on the inside, it looks like a good, functional test, but looking at the test from the outside, I feel it takes too few inputs to really matter to the extremes. So I think the test is valid, just not something to base your life on.
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
You're a shifty bugger.Well, I complain because I am the best
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
That you aren't consistent with requirements and standards for evidence.
It's asking your thoughts on evolution, and you indicate it is the best explanation. But then you call it foolish to believe in a god without the sort of evidence to definitely prove god beyond a shadow of doubt. But we can't prove evolution to this degree. Science as a whole does not have "irrevocable evidence" and does not function well with assumptions evidence is beyond reproach.
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
One bullet. So shoot me. And what does the test say about my religious consistency?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
The point is that's not a problem with the test.
"You navigated the battlefield suffering 0 hits and biting 0 bullets, which represents an overall performance at the 100th percentile (i.e., 100% of scores are worse than yours). The tables on the right show how your performance compares to the other 114621 people who have completed Battleground God."
Okay, I'm consistent, at least in responding to those questions...
As to question #2, "God is a logical possibility (i.e., there is nothing contradictory about the very idea of God)." Actually, I don't think it's possible for humans to know whether or not any of our beliefs about God is a logical or illogical possibility...
Okay, I'm consistent, at least in responding to those questions...
As to question #2, "God is a logical possibility (i.e., there is nothing contradictory about the very idea of God)." Actually, I don't think it's possible for humans to know whether or not any of our beliefs about God is a logical or illogical possibility...
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
The problem with the test is
"Can your beliefs about religion make it across our intellectual battleground?"
And yet my beliefs about religion were not even touched upon by the test, hardly surprising given the actual questions asked. Maybe the test should just market itself as
"Can you provide consistent answers (subject irrelevant) ? "
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Asking if you believe in god or not and your views on some characteristics and properties isn't asking you about your religious beliefs?