Swamp
Confessions of an Academic Pseudo-Giraffe
5.8.05
If there is little else to do...
... these "tests" at least offer something for the needy for a few short minutes. I know they were probably designed by and for American high school kids, but sometimes I don't have the energy to care.
This nerd test saw it appropriate to inform me that while I may not be a nerd, I am "definitely not hip either". I think I need to look up hip to judge whether this was an insult or a compliment.
My only defense for this one - indeed the only hope I have for maintaining a viable identity with a mental backbone - is the assumption that the test did not include Finnish as a result option. Well, at least I didn't hop south or east. I wonder how I would rationalize it to myself if I had turned out to be secretly Portuguese, or Irish, or Belarussian. A more serious and detailed test like this could be really fun.
This nerd test saw it appropriate to inform me that while I may not be a nerd, I am "definitely not hip either". I think I need to look up hip to judge whether this was an insult or a compliment.
| Your Inner European is Swedish! |
 Relaxed and peaceful. You like to kick back and enjoy life. |
My only defense for this one - indeed the only hope I have for maintaining a viable identity with a mental backbone - is the assumption that the test did not include Finnish as a result option. Well, at least I didn't hop south or east. I wonder how I would rationalize it to myself if I had turned out to be secretly Portuguese, or Irish, or Belarussian. A more serious and detailed test like this could be really fun.
| Your IQ Is 135 |
 Your Logical Intelligence is Genius Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Exceptional |
A Quick and Dirty IQ Test
21:45
This one I really would not recommend. The elementary questions themselves contain a couple of factual errors. We are supposed to believe a country called Russia belonged to the Allied forces during WWII. Then again, who am I to criticise a machine that repeatedly calls me a genius.
