May 3, 2004

• Only 94%!?

  Yesterday I was trolling for xangafish, clicking my way through the
  “newly created members” looking for something/someone else (other than the jillion or so already on my list) interesting to
  subscribe to.  On one of those sites, Madame_Violette
  was lamenting and lambasting “freak tests”.  Seems she/he takes
  exception to the label freak, although no specific test was mentioned
  nor link provided.  I googled “freak test” and took four or five
  of the first results returned.  My own test results came back
  mixed and varied.

  It’s quite possible, based on the word, “purity”, in that entry, that
  the specific test in question scores not one’s freakiness, but one’s
  purity from it, the lack of
  freakitude as it were.  If so, then Madame V, at 95%, was
  complaining about being excluded from freakdom, not about being lumped
  in with the rest of us.  On that test,
  I scored 59.7% pure, 40.3% freak.  I take exception to that! 
  It’s too middle-of-the-road for me, not to mention falling slightly on
  the “normal” side.  Besides that, the questions on that test were
  silly and related to specific experiences rather than to attitudes and
  preferences.  It is age, gender, and culture biased.

  A similar test, the IMTools Freak Test, showed me to be 56.1% freak, still too middle-of-the-road, but at least on the right side of the line.  Another like it put my score at 30.612244898, a more interesting figure, yes, but still on the wrong side of the freak-line.

  A different page purporting to be a “freak test”, was entirely different.  There, the cyberbuss
  test instructed me to follow a bizarre set of instructions including
  picking a number and clicking a link as fast as I can.  Weirdly
  enough, it freaked me out by guessing correctly the number I picked.

  The only freak test among my sample yesterday that I consider valid,
  because it measured attitudes and preferences and was based on
  psychological research, said I’m 94% freak!!   That’s more like it.  You can try that one for yourself, HERE.
  

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