The idea of a LitmusTest with respect to Identity is to allow newbies to give themselves a kind of MeyersBriggs shorthand as they enter the space. however LitmusTests are by their very nature, slanted. they are created by InterestGroups (i’ve got to think of a catchier name) as devices to gain membership and adherence. but in opposition to this there should be a neutral ValuesHierarchy - the difficulty will be in assigning some reconciliation by ‘objective’ computation of the self-selected valueHierarchy, and a fully Deliberated/LitmusTested Sleeve. one of the ambitions of this (yet unnamed space) is to provide Citizens with some accounting of the values they claim and the Arguments they find attractive in practice, therefore the Policies they support as a consequence. if the space works well, then it will achieve the ‘Fred Friendly Effect’ which makes the pain of decision making so acute that one can only escape it by thinking. so I imagine a newbie Citizen walking into the first Agora and taking a ValueHierarchy test and then taking several LitmusTests, maybe becoming a Partisan (aha, that’s better than InterestGroup member) and working in concert on polishing an Argument. in addition, we should be able create historically accurate Citizens and their arguments into the space.
A Litmus Test has 3 dimensions of credibility.