Oneiromancer
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Perhaps everyone else has seen this many times before, but just in case not...

http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html

I got 28.99408% - Total Geek, which I thought was kind of low, but maybe not...perhaps it depends on what others get.

Geek on,

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ErikH2000
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Oneiromancer wrote:
I got 28.99408% - Total Geek, which I thought was kind of low, but maybe not...perhaps it depends on what others get.

I'm just a tiny bit less geeky than you (28.88...% - Total Geek). I thought that creating an artificial language would have at least earned me "major geek" status.

-Erik

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34.31953% - Total Geek

Oh, brother. And I thought I was doing well because I'd noticed I was not checking a bunch of stuff I used to do and was happy because my geekiness was going down.

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mrimer wrote:
34.31953% - Total Geek

Oh, brother. And I thought I was doing well because I'd noticed I was not checking a bunch of stuff I used to do and was happy because my geekiness was going down.

Hehheh. You can't shake it off. Geekiness gets in your bones and you're stuck with it. It's with you for life!

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14.59566% - Geekish Tendencies

Meh. At least I know that there's one area where I excel at being geeky.

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ErikH2000 wrote:
I thought that creating an artificial language would have at least earned me "major geek" status.

-Erik

Hmm... Looks like the score is just the percent of checkboxes you checked. So your language got you just as many points as anything else... A weighted average would make the results a bit more meaningful.

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Man.... I was filling this thing out, thinking "Hey! I guess I'm not that geeky after all!"

33.13609% - Total Geek

*sigh*
At least I'm less of a geek than Mike


[Edited by Schik on 06-06-2003 at 09:45 PM]

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Oneiromancer
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bdcribbs wrote:
Hmm... Looks like the score is just the percent of checkboxes you checked. So your language got you just as many points as anything else... A weighted average would make the results a bit more meaningful.

Yeah, I know...you would think that at least when you check something that is farther down a tree than an earlier choice that it would really stack up the points.

One of my coworkers was sad that I scored so much lower than her (she got a 38%--sorry guys, she's married), so I took it again and actually did find some boxes that I had missed and got a 32.9%. Then she took it again and was more conservative and got a 33.2%.

She said she wished there was a checkbox for "Signed up for a credit card just because it had Dogbert on it and then cancelled it because they removed Dogbert."

Geek on,

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Schik wrote in "Story Collaboration":
Hey agaricus5, did you do the geek test in this thread?

I think you win.

Nope - I have "Geekish Tendencies" - 8.9%

I'm just an interested person in the fields of sciences.

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agaricus5 wrote:
I'm just an interested person in the fields of sciences.

Ah, I was just kidding.

By the way, I had some of >>these<< recently. Not too bad.

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Schik wrote:

agaricus5 wrote:
I'm just an interested person in the fields of sciences.

Ah, I was just kidding.

By the way, I had some of >>these<< recently. Not too bad.

Oh, you cruel wicked thing to show me something like that, which I can't go out to find! (There is hardly any woodland around London that I can access).

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I'm between 14&15% geek. That's good enough for me.

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15.18738% - Geek


So, not that geeky. But I would be able to check many more of those boxes if I had actually done them (maybe I should check the ones that I think are likely to happen later in my life). I like to think that I'm an unconventional geek, and don't follow the normal "rules" of geekyness. So since geeks are already really unconventional, I must be... hyper-unconventional, or something.

My favorite check-box was that I "listen to music that no one else listens to. Ever." Dangit, they didn't have a checkbox for anime soundtracks! Oh well, they didn't have checkboxes for a lot of the things I do, so that's why I said the above.

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14.7929 - Geekish Tendencies.

Not too bad, although I am a little disconcerted that my signature is one of the checkboxes.

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44.3787% Major Geek


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32.1499% for me...
I suppose that is accurate, although if there were fewer questions about Trek, and more absut Tolkien, things could have gotten ugly. Still, I think I hide my geekiness well. However I still don't have a girlfriend.

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28.79684% - Total Geek

Methinks this test is rigged. I was doing great until I hit the movie section. Then the DVD section. And I am a database programmer and physics major, so i'm screwed there. Not too bad considering my environment. The real killer though is that my wife has even called me a geek, and she's a DBA! How would that work? I have a DBA calling me a geek, gaining geek points in the process, but I am married, which flies in the face of geekdom. It should cancel out. So confusing, oh well. Back to Drod.

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I want to make a version of the Geek test that weighs attributes based on how much they're an indication that you're a geek.

Haven't worked out the forulas yet, though.

Matt

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%41.02564 - Major Geek

Somehow, I'm disappointed. I was expecting more... For one thing, I know the etymology of the word geek, that ought to count for something...

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It should count for something... ain't it a chicken-head biter?
Also the questions about exaggerating and lying to score higher should have a further one about being frustrated by the paradox of only lying on the lying one... I ended up checking the outright lie box because of being frustrated by the paradox myself, but I think there should be more. I would have been amused by it anyway, and I'm pretty sure that test was for entertainment purposes, and hopefully not so they can purify the gene pool.

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There's this line in an episode of Futurama where the Professor talks about a time where aliens came to Earth and forced the smartest humans to mate with one another.

This is extremely off-topic though, although I reckon it's saved by the mental image of geniuses the world over suddenly realising they're going to get some without even having to try.

Matt

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I can't seem to get a rating. When I try to submit the score, it says that the guestbook is full. Am I missing something?

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94.08284% - Dysfunctional Geek. I'm scared of myself. Doesn't everyone know how to count to 31 on one hand?

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I knew how to count to 31 on one hand, but how the hell you get a 94%... you lie and tell it you set up a network when you were 6 or something? Actually, if I were a techie and a band geek in addition to everything else on that list I probably would have been a 94% or so myself, so you really don't need to answer that question.

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That quiz was too long and my internet connection crashed halfway through - but from the part I did, I'd say I'm about 10-20%.

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Actually, the only reason I didn't set up that network was lack of funding due to the fact that we were in Russia.

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I got 20.31558% - Geek, but checked a lot of things that I would like to do, but haven't done, and stuff like that.

These are the digits of pi as far as I know: 3.14159265358979323

[Edited by SKWERLL on 04-06-2004 at 06:48 PM GMT]

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SKWERLL wrote:
I got 20.31558% - Geek, but checked a lot of things that I would like to do, but haven't done, and stuff like that.

These are the digits of pi as far as I know: 3.14159265358979323

[Edited by SKWERLL on 04-06-2004 at 06:48 PM GMT]

If you're interested in pi, there is a book on it I know of that's devoted to the number. It contains the first million digits of the number, along with gobs of information about the number, its history and what you do with it. Well worth a read.

See if you can find "The Joy of Pi" by David Blattner.

ISBN: 0-140-26680-1

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25.24655% - Total Geek

I see a flaw in the test, that should give me a point

Two of the checkboxes say
-I own 1-2 computers
-I own 3+ computers
Should'nt the first one be "1+ computers"?
Otherwise you're equally geeky if you have 1-2 computers and if you have 3+ computers.

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Except if you own 3, you also own 1 or 2, so you just check both of them. Pi I know: 3.1415926535897932384626433

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