Althouse: My intuition tells me...

August 18, 2005

My intuition tells me...

This is a pretty well-done test. (Via Popdex.)

14 comments:

Joan said...: Hee! I like it when I test into the 99th percentile. It has been a while since anything like that happened.

I liked even more that my scientific and emotional intuition were about equally strong. It's nice to have my own sense of being "balanced" confirmed by an impersonal outside agency.; 8/18/05, 11:28 AM
Gordon Freece said...: It put me in the zeroth percentile on "scientific intuition" for my age and gender, and in the 99th for "emotional intuition".

That's odd, since I'm a software engineer, have zero social skills, and while I'm not "good at Quake", I never played it; but I used to play Unreal Tournament consistently in the 98th or better percentile. Is UT more "emotional" than Quake? Statistics don't lie!

Or else most of the males my age who've taken the survey are bigger nerds than me.; 8/18/05, 12:09 PM
Independent George said...: Hmmm.... 62%/62% overall, but 0%/0% for my a 28 year-old male. I have no idea what this means.

I'd really like to see what the distribution was on either score. And the answers, too.; 8/18/05, 1:04 PM
Lance Burri said...: You gonna tell us what you got, Ann?; 8/18/05, 1:06 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Lance: I got the 99th percentile in both categories, as many others seem to have gotten. I'm questioning the processing of the statistics here.; 8/18/05, 1:13 PM
Unknown said...: It's probably because it's a fairly new test, so there aren't a lot of results yet for each age group.; 8/18/05, 1:25 PM
DaveG said...: What does it indicate if I'm enormously frustrated to have not learned at the end which girl was the non-virgin??; 8/18/05, 1:35 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Roaring Tiger: I think it was 62% on emotion and 70% on science.; 8/18/05, 1:42 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: I also got double 99th percentiles, so I think that that part isn't working.

My scores:
85% Scientific and
47% Emotional

I especially liked this part about the Emtional Intuition: "A low score usually means you're good at Quake." Heh heh, I am good at Quake.; 8/18/05, 2:16 PM
Adam said...: 62% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and
77% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

I tend to overthink tests like this.; 8/18/05, 2:53 PM
M.E. said...: 77 on both; 99% percentile on both.; 8/18/05, 3:18 PM
Bill said...: The okcupid site indicates that the test has been taken 36,615 times. That sounds like a decent sample base.; 8/18/05, 9:32 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: Again, 99% in both.

I have two hypotheses, either (a) AnnPundit gets awfully smart readers, or (b) the scoring percentage is off. Though I would like it to be (a), I think it much more likely (b).; 8/18/05, 10:44 PM
bearing said...: 30F, 72% scientific, 60% emotional.

Did anyone else get a bit of a shock on reading the suicide question?; 8/19/05, 8:20 PM