Yeah, me too. Of course, it's slanted that way--the default answers are all the ones that would lead to the "nice" rating.
I have to say I'm not sure I agree with the obvious rating for question #7 though. If a date is obviously heading towards horizontal, telling them about all the people I've had sex with *is* a good thing!!!
I was just amazed by the unimaginative answers. The best way to break up with someone is... to first distract them by setting them up with a mutual friend.
You know, I think I should write one of these quizzes. The software is trivial, the data analysis would be fascinating, it's just the topic and the questions and the answers that I'm completely stuck on. Anybody want to co-author it with me?
Tylik, I agree with your comment long-ago that a more multi-dimensional system would be a lot more interesting...
I've had a plan to write a quiz by scraping all of the existing quizzes I can find and then generating a random title, ten random questions, and a random result. It'll be the most accurate quiz ever!
Hmmm... What Heinlein character are you? (But is there enough variety? It has promise... we'd need someone to do art.)
Heh. What smurf are you? (I like the obnoxiousness, but since they're one dimensional pretty much by definition, there's no point in having a well designed test.
Need to have characters complex enough that we chart them on a number of different axis, and enough characters to cover all our bases.)
What mushroom are you?
What state is your spiritual home? (What puget sound community is your spiritual home?)
Hrm..what kind of dragon are you? What starburst flavor (oh wait, I think that one is just me), what kind of bed are you? I don't think I quite get the multidimentional part..
What game are you? What fictional world/universe are you? What school of psychology are you? What element are you? (Not those, I mean the ones from the Periodic Table. Or at least some of them.) What obscure religion are you? What ancient hero/heroine are you? What net god are you? Which hanky are you? (From the hanky code, of course.) What sex toy are you? What weapon are you? What field of science are you? What kind of rock/metal/insect/herb/etc. are you? What kind of weather are you? Which sacred day are you? (Using holy days from several religions, of course.) What scent are you?
Oh, but that's lame! All it asks is what your atomic weight is, which (duh) tells you what your element is. I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to come up with something totally twisted and weird and surreal to determine one's element.
Personally, I'm really likeing the Heinlein one, from a conceptual viewpoint, but I haven't read nearly as much as I'd need to to do it right. And yeah, smurfs are too simple.
Hrm. What kind of computer? i/o device? storage medium? (yes, I'm a geek.)
Well, let's run with the Heinlein thing (and if it forces you to read a little more Heinlein, no harm done, right?) At one point I'd read almost everything he'd written... not such a big fan anymore, but he is a common reference point for a large portion of the large community.
And heavens knows there are enough characters... I can think of eight or so right off the top of my head that should be included and are distinctive enough. (Friday, Podkayne, VMS, Jubal -- if only because we can leave out Lazarus Long then, the narrator from "Starship Troopers", Andrew/Elizabeth, etc. etc. The guy who sold the moon....) But having reassured myself that it's technically feasiable, we should work on the underlying structure.
Now letmesee... I think we should have a pool of at least twelve different answers. It's completely dull if it's like five or something. If we're just contrasting high versus low values for the various attributes we're charting, four different attributes with give us sixteen different combinations, which seems about right to me. (If rather Myers-Briggs esque.)
I think we should have one dealing with security vs. insecurity. Heinlein characters have pretty different levels of socialization and alienation, and I think folks'll get into that.
There probably should be a thinking/feeling scale. (I wondered for a second if it should be a thinking / fucking one, for Heinlein, but then they were never treated as exclusive...) I'm thinking relative importance people place on emotionally vs. intellectually derived truths.
Hmph. You could practically have one about how much you want to move to the country with half a dozen lovers... but maybe not.
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Date: 2002-05-21 08:55 am (UTC)I have to say I'm not sure I agree with the obvious rating for question #7 though. If a date is obviously heading towards horizontal, telling them about all the people I've had sex with *is* a good thing!!!
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Date: 2002-05-21 09:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-21 09:23 am (UTC)I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 09:25 am (UTC)Tylik, I agree with your comment long-ago that a more multi-dimensional system would be a lot more interesting...
Re: I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 10:58 am (UTC)Re: I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 11:26 am (UTC)Re: I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 11:46 am (UTC)Hmmm... What Heinlein character are you? (But is there enough variety? It has promise... we'd need someone to do art.)
Heh. What smurf are you? (I like the obnoxiousness, but since they're one dimensional pretty much by definition, there's no point in having a well designed test.
Need to have characters complex enough that we chart them on a number of different axis, and enough characters to cover all our bases.)
What mushroom are you?
What state is your spiritual home? (What puget sound community is your spiritual home?)
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Date: 2002-05-21 11:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-21 12:17 pm (UTC)The list is endless ......
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Date: 2002-05-21 01:04 pm (UTC)Which Element Are You?
Re: Which Element Are You?
Date: 2002-05-21 02:17 pm (UTC)Re: Which Element Are You?
Date: 2002-05-21 02:39 pm (UTC)Re: I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 02:01 pm (UTC)And yeah, smurfs are too simple.
Hrm. What kind of computer? i/o device? storage medium? (yes, I'm a geek.)
Re: I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 03:11 pm (UTC)And heavens knows there are enough characters... I can think of eight or so right off the top of my head that should be included and are distinctive enough. (Friday, Podkayne, VMS, Jubal -- if only because we can leave out Lazarus Long then, the narrator from "Starship Troopers", Andrew/Elizabeth, etc. etc. The guy who sold the moon....) But having reassured myself that it's technically feasiable, we should work on the underlying structure.
Now letmesee... I think we should have a pool of at least twelve different answers. It's completely dull if it's like five or something. If we're just contrasting high versus low values for the various attributes we're charting, four different attributes with give us sixteen different combinations, which seems about right to me. (If rather Myers-Briggs esque.)
I think we should have one dealing with security vs. insecurity. Heinlein characters have pretty different levels of socialization and alienation, and I think folks'll get into that.
There probably should be a thinking/feeling scale. (I wondered for a second if it should be a thinking / fucking one, for Heinlein, but then they were never treated as exclusive...) I'm thinking relative importance people place on emotionally vs. intellectually derived truths.
Hmph. You could practically have one about how much you want to move to the country with half a dozen lovers... but maybe not.
Thoughts?
Re: I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 05:59 pm (UTC)