tests

Amazing! According to this test I am an English Genius. It was not a surprise to see that I scored a perfect 100%, actually, on the advanced sections. What was shocking was that I scored in the embarrassingly-low 80s on what were supposed to be the simple sections. That, and the fact that I could perform under 90% on any section and still be considered a “genius” by this test. I wonder if that’s because I did so well or because so many others have done so poorly.

(I don’t know that “English Genius” is how I would describe someone with good skillz in the ol’ vocab department, though. Doesn’t that phrase just make you think that I’m a genius from Merrye Olde England?)

Take the The Dead Russian Composer Personality Test. If I was a dead Russian composer, I’d be Aleksandr Borodin.

Son of a 19th Century Russian prince and a…non-royal…mother, you went to medical school and became a biochemist. Most people, however, (and probably your twenty cats as well) agree that they’d trade all of your scientific discoveries for another set of “Polovetsian Dances.”

link via Sick Side

I have to agree with Caterina: I’m not happy at all with the results of my art test.

I just took a verbalIQ test that I found at leuschke.org. My overall score was a depressingly low 87%.
I did well in the Reading Comprehension and Anagrams sections. I had never seen an Anagrams section on a standardized test. It’s an interesting concept, although I think it’s really just another form of a vocabulary test and not really useful in gauging how well a person might solve anagrams. How often are you presented with anagram problems at work? In life? Unless I’m playing a game I don’t think I’m ever faced with one. And does anyone like the Analogy sections on standardized tests? They’re terrible. Even when I see the quote-unquote correct answers I am usually aggravated by what the test designers have considered analogically equivalent.
If you want to see them, the full results of my test are located in the extended text of this entry. How did you do?
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Take a quiz on Middle East Geography and History from Encarta and MSN. I got 7 out of 10.

Take the Condom Quiz!

Whether it’s polyurethane, sheepskin or chocolate-flavored latex, if you don’t know the basics about your condom of choice you can’t be safe.

If you’ve got a few minutes to spare, take thespark.com’s Purity Test. This little gem has been around the ‘net for years. Apparently it was revived last night in blogIRC. I didn’t arrive until much later, so I missed most of the fun. I did score a 32% on the test recently. That means I’m less pure than 95% of the over 8 million people that have taken the test already. Compared to the bloggers in blogIRC last night, though, I am really bottom-of-the-barrel. Of course, I’m still not as bad as Joe.

How do you fare on the Gay-O-Meter?

I just took The Brunching Shuttlecocks’ Ten-Question Purity Test. Here’s what it told me:

Thou hast scored only 30% pure. Thou suckest in the eyes of thy Lord. Repent now or be cast into the lake of fire to whine for all eternity.

So I guess that’s kind of rough.

I beat Firda’s score on the W3Schools’ CSS Quiz Test. Heh. 85%

I scored a 33 out of 48 on the Emotional Intelligence Quiz. According to them, that means my “emotional intelligence appears well-developed. [I am] probably productive and highly valued.” er. Yeah. Something like that.

Guess The Evil Dictator / Sit-Com Character is kind of funny if you have a few minutes. Here is a line from the FAQ:
How does this work?
Monkeys. Lots and lots of monkeys. Actually, version 1 was written in C, used a flat file database, and a lot of recursion. Version 2 was written in perl, talks to a MySQL database, and is recursion-free.

I finally took the What’s Your Flavor? quiz at eMode and it told me, “Yum! You’re cinnamon. Explosive and utterly red-hot, you’re as tasty as they come.”

Here’s a very surreal Self-Building Test that I discovered through the memepool.