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Computer genius?

By alex | Published: 11/25/2003
Of course, they didn’t ask “Can you make your hard drive work?” Also, an IQ score is supposed to be normalized. When half of the respondants are getting over 110, it needs to be renormalized. I wonder if this is just that MS (NBC) underestimates the intelligence of their users.
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Political self-sorting

By alex | Published: 11/9/2003
Sometime last year, someone pointed me toward the Political Compass quiz. I took it, and it came out something like this: I hung it up outside my door, and several of the faculty and grad students did the same, to create a “political leanings full disclosure.” Since there are several TAs to an office, some […]
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Green Quiz

By alex | Published: 6/6/2003
Since I clearly haven’t posted enough quizzes lately (sarc.), here is the Jealousy test. It’s longish. My score was much lower than I expected, and that was gratifying. Of course, the issue here is that it measures your relationship as much as it does any innate tendencies. The reason my score was so low, I […]
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Ethical rudders

By alex | Published: 4/16/2003
It seems I am more ethically aligned with Kant than with Nietzsche. News to me! This according to the Ethical Philosophy Selector (via, most immediately, Joshua). The full lineup: 1. John Stuart Mill (100%) 2. Jean-Paul Sartre (86%) 3. Kant (83%) 4. Jeremy Bentham (79%) 5. Ayn Rand (74%) 6. Epicureans (71%) 7. Aristotle (67%) […]
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