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nostalgebraist

nostalgebraist:

Deleted my reblog of the “female attractiveness scale” thing because I don’t want to be a vector in the spread of a broken/troll test that gives everyone the same answer

I’m still curious what’s behind that; looking at the source, there is definitely some infrastructure for tracking results and even noticing when you click quickly vs. slowly, although that could just have been default code from some test-maker kit.  Even then, if someone made this just to troll, it seems weird that they’d collect all the pictures and stuff.  The site doesn’t have ads, so they’re not trying to create a memetic hit for ad revenue.  And the site has a bunch of other personality tests (dunno if they work).

But the “get results” button on the survey page is just hardcoded to send you to a page with result 76 – you get that even if you navigate to the survey page directly without taking the test.  Did someone deliberately break a real test?  Was this a debugging version that they never got around to fixing?  idk

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voximperatoris

voximperatoris:

Ideally, don’t look at the test explanation and other people’s results until you do the test, so as not to bias your selections.

But then reblog with your results!

Keep reading

Also 76, but I really didn’t like the test - it’s way too confounded by photo quality, black-and-white vs. colored photos, happy looking people in sunny fields vs. people in grey rooms, et cetera.

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shlevy

shlevy:

slatestarscratchpad:

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Once upon a time there was an exotic pet shop by Niagara Falls that got knocked into the waterfall by a storm. A bunch of exotic reptiles escaped and washed up on the southern shore. A lot of them were big and dangerous-looking, so the townspeople demanded that the cops hunt them down.But in those days the cops used to ride horses, and the horses were terrified of the reptiles and threw their riders. There happened to be a Wild West show in town that day, and the cops figured wild animals might be braver than domesticated ones, so they borrowed some bison and rode them around instead and managed to catch most of the escaped reptiles. The remaining reptiles all banded together for safety, on the assumption that the cops wouldn’t attack a whole army of them. This proved true, but a couple of smaller iguanas kept wandering off, so the reptiles agreed that any of them who left formation would get eaten by the Komodo dragons. So the cops just set up a CCTV to keep an eye on them and had a few junior officers watch them on screens to make sure they weren’t going anywhere. In other words:

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shlevy Source: slatestarscratchpad cw puns

1. Have a nightmare about suddenly realizing I’m on call and forgot to turn on my pager.

2. Wake up, laugh a bit about how I’m finally adult enough that I’m having “forgot to do my job at work” nightmares instead of “forgot about an exam at school” nightmares.

3. As soon as I think “forgot about an exam at school”, realize that today is the day I scheduled months ago to do my big yearly training exam, and that I’m actually off from work today, and I totally forgot about this until this second

4. Run to car, rush to hospital just in time to make the exam and avert disaster.

I’ve talked before about why it’s so important to learn how to take a medical history (answer: because patients are worse at explaining themselves than you would have believed possible).

Today’s example: interviewing an immigrant man who said he had suffered trauma in “my country’s equivalent of the Boy Scouts”.

A couple of questions later, I finally figure out that he’s talking about Hezbollah.

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theunitofcaring

theunitofcaring:

I feel very strange about announcing this, but - I have decided to get a Patreon! 

There are a lot of writing projects I had to drop when I got sick that I’d very dearly like the time to get back into, I get more thoughtful questions every day than I have time to answer, and while absolutely nobody should feel any sense of obligation to give me money, if you would like to influence my output of stuff, you may now exchange currency for goods and services. 

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