Granted -- at the philosophical level, I somewhat agree with you. My main problem with this idea is that I suspect that we'd wind up with a civil war over the writing of that test.

Indeed, I'm not entirely sure it's *possible* to write such a test without writing some level of political bias into it. In a country where I find myself on the mailing list of an organization (the AFA) with whom I disagree about *every single thing*, I'm not sure there's enough common ground to be able to write it.

So this is a theory vs. practice thing for me. In theory, it's a very interesting idea. In practice, I doubt it's possible...