Sense and Gullibility
According to this page, I have a “Gullibility Factor” score of 97 - which apparently means that on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is “mind slave” and 100 is “free thinker”, I score 97.
The thing is, there were three (out of 33) questions on which the answers I gave were not the same as the answers they gave. So how does that equate to 97 out of 100? Even allowing for weighting of questions, it doesn’t make sense. Anyway, in one case, the question was vague, in another I don’t believe their answer is accurate. On the third question on which we disagreed, I guessed, because I’d no idea. So I guessed wrong - which isn’t a marker of gullibility, but rather plain ignorance and bad luck.
Not only that, but the person whose blog I got the link from scored 91 out of 100, and the test said that was in the “top 5%”. Again, doesn’t make sense.
And wouldn’t having a high “Gullibility Factor” mean you were more gullible, rather than the other way around? I mean, shouldn’t low scores on this test mean you’re cynical, or alternatively shouldn’t it be called something like the “Scepticism Factor” (or, for the Americans, the “Skepticism Factor”)?
But what really doesn’t make sense is why the people who wrote the code for this did so using Microsoft Word. I mean, writing webpages using any MS product is bad enough - but Word?
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roflmao….
Well, given the amount of time you’ve spent doing it and thinking about it, maybe you are quite erm… well… *runs off*
lmao!
I’d wondered about the 5% thingy too. But then my brain went all technical and statistical on me and I gave up and went back to the blog ring.
Merry, I believe the words you’re seeking are: “stuck in one place feeding new baby and forgot to bring a book”!