Apparently I know less about languages than I thought

[cerowyn]

Via the NADS message board, I stumbled upon one of those online quizzes (at OKCupid!) that happens to be about a topic I know something about: linguistics. Here's the LJ code they give you on the last page:

Language Scholar

You scored a 310 out of 400 on language knowledge.

Outstanding! You've scored

Comments

[420lunchbox]

I don't even want to try this one. I tend to think I'm smart. I'd like to keep it that way. Every time I take one of these damn tests, the results show that I am stupid.

[caprinus]

I only post favourable results, thus keeping the readers in the dark about my failures! muahaha

[citizenfemme]

Ooooh. Pretty.

[asyrol]

look at it this way... if all of your peer-reviewed papers were regarding the linguistics of ancient romans, when the quiz was about the linguistics of ancient aztecs, you wouldn't know as much, right? (Obviously a skewed examply because you said it was general knowledge, but if the 20% that you didn't get was about general knowledge outside of your field of specialty, you're not going to do as well).

Another likely possibility is that the quiz was from OKCupid and the quiz maker didn't know what they were talking about and had programmed wrong answers as right answers.

[troubleagain]

I got a 220. Apparently that still puts me in the top 98-percentile. And I guessed at a lot of them.

[caprinus]

There's just no making you happy, is there? The purple purple puff prose; the gold statue; the 99th percentile score -- it's all but a vasty nothing! If you can't get every answer right, there must be something wrong with the test. littleminx, you better get a perfect score or else! :P

And in the meantime, your lower-scoring readers commit ritual suicides in droves, and the OkCupid robots heap the bodies in lye-soaked pits and cry "VAE VINCIS!" while flagellating themselves with printouts of the complete corpus of the Hittite Dictionary Project, soaked with their blood-red hydraulics.

PS: I haven't done the test yet. Huge performance anxiety! Especially as I never even got my degree, let alone publish, lol.

[caprinus]

Hey, what's the link to the test? *lazy*

[cerowyn]

Here

[littleminx]

Yeah, i was just thinking that. Except... i'm WAY too lazy to do a 400 question test on languages. I can eat glass, it does not harm me.