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[moozeale]

Stolen from Kit:

Your Brain is 66.67% Female, 33.33% Male

Your brain leans female

You think with your heart, not your head

Sweet and considerate, you are a giver

But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!

What Gender Is Your Brain?

Comments

[perpetualponder]

Your Brain is 40.00% Female, 60.00% Male

You have a total boy brain
Logical and detailed, you tend to look at the facts
And while your emotions do sway you sometimes...
You never like to get feelings too involved

[pezzonovante]

Wow. Jules, you and I got the exact same score.

[sirroxton]

Am I really a hardnosed, asinine, overreactive prick for thinking this quiz is even mildly offensive? Wait, wait -- you don't have to answer that one. :)

[moozeale]

The answer is no to all of the above. I don't think it's offensive, but only because I don't get offended by much of anything, so it's not possible for a quiz to offend me. However, because this quis is most definately overly stereotypical in that I could tell exactly what questions would tell me whether my brain was male or female (I was confused by the vegetarian question until Ryan asked me how many vegetarians I know and it's a 5:1 ratio of females to males), I can see how some people would be offended by it. Since I was conflicted on one question I went back and changed it and it gave me something like 53% female and 47% male, which says my brain is healthy mix of male and female etc. I don't really care; it's just a silly quiz.

[sirroxton]

It is just a silly quiz. Rather than railing against the quiz, I'm more pointing out my amazement at how readily I get my panties in a bunch over gender roles.

[moozeale]

LOL, ok. Yeah, gender roles annoy me too, but I've come to realize they annoy just about everyone I know from WPI. This might have something to do with the statistic Kate dug up about androgeny and the ability to excel in math / science / engineering fields.

[verrucaria]

Well, a major problem (or a revealing insight) with "personality tests" of any sort (even with psychiatric tests) is that your answers will vary depending on your mood... :-/

[moozeale]

This is true. As I said in an earlier post, I have been emotional lately. There was also a question about do other people's problems become your own. Well that depends on the problem. If a friend and I are experiencing a similar problem then yes, it becomes possible for us to feed off of each other as helpful as it is to hash over stuff together. If, however, I'm completely removed from the problem a friend is experiencing, then I'll put it out of my mind after we've discussed it. Either way, I'm not going to tell a friend they can't talk to me because I can't deal with it; rather, I'll find a way.

[verrucaria]

Yeah, many questions could be interpreted in different ways. They might expect females and males to interpret them differently, but it seems as though you'd lose another level of precision that way. :-/

[moozeale]

They might be expecting males and females to interpret them differently, but I don't think so. The questions were mostly pertaining to how one deals with problems. In my experience with Ryan, I've learned men and women cope differently. I was wondering if we're different from mundanes, but based on this quiz, I'd have to say we're normal in our coping mechanisms. )-: I HATE being normal. I knew exactly what he'd put down for each answer and I know that quiz would tell him he's more male than female. I find this funny because when we're not talking about silly things such as how one deals with emotions, I've had several wedgerats tell me he's more feminine than me. I tend to agree with them in a few aspects. In a conversation about gender stereotypes with a few other people, he told me I can forget about his ability to defend either of us from an attacker so I'll either rely on my self defense training or hope we don't get attacked (lately we've been more concerned about a cow falling out of the sky and only killing one of us