#207514 - 27/02/2004 20:33
A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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enthusiast
Registered: 20/11/2000
Posts: 279
Loc: Pacific Northwest
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How nerdy are you?
38.095238095238095% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?
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#207515 - 27/02/2004 20:50
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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42.857142857142854%
And I answered "I don't know" on a lot of them.
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#207516 - 27/02/2004 21:54
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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69%, although, looking at the answers, apparently I am a good guesser.
However:
22. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary abstracts of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself; although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
Because I can.
Because I have to.
Because I choose to.
Because it is inevitable.
Because we must have the prreciouss.
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#207517 - 27/02/2004 22:01
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 28/12/2001
Posts: 868
Loc: Los Angeles
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52.38095238095238% of me is a huge nerd
That was exceedingly hard.
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#207518 - 27/02/2004 23:17
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 18/12/2000
Posts: 342
Loc: South-West-Germany
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16.6666666666667%
I don't play RPGs...
And did some silly mistakes i would have got right, if the test were german, for example Asimovs Robot-law. Just choosed the wrong one (human being for humanity...)
And i have to go to sleep now...
 enough excuses, i'm a n00b...
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#207519 - 27/02/2004 23:23
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
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16.666666%, without guessing at anything. If I didn't have a clue what the question was asking, I picked the last one.
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#207520 - 28/02/2004 01:36
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
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54.76190476190476%
Not sure if I should be proud?
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#207521 - 28/02/2004 01:38
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
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No wait. Here's what's more scary. I actually said to myself, after taking the test... "If I ever start my own software company, this will be my employment application..."
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#207522 - 28/02/2004 04:34
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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35.714285714285715%
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#207523 - 28/02/2004 05:13
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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pooh-bah
Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
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I'm ashamed to say I scored 11.904761904761905%
I have to sell my empeg now, right?? I'm not worthy.
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#207524 - 28/02/2004 06:27
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 27/07/1999
Posts: 123
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Only 21.428571428571427%
Am still grasshopper...
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#207525 - 28/02/2004 06:38
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 13/04/2001
Posts: 1742
Loc: The land of the pale blue peop...
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14% roughly not even remotely nerdy
I'll hand in the empeg on the way out
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#207526 - 28/02/2004 09:15
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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54.76190476190476% Ow...
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#207527 - 28/02/2004 10:17
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
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I have to say that anyone taking the test from the UK (or any country other than the USA) is probably at a disadvantage. There were a few references in there to TV shows that I'm pretty sure are only popular in the US. And the Python/Adams references don't offset it because those are equally as popular in the US among geeks.
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#207528 - 28/02/2004 10:59
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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47.61904761904762% nerd blood flows through my veins, apparently, and that's with knowing nothing about either RPG or Star Trek...
Peter
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#207529 - 28/02/2004 12:38
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
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38.095238095238095% here.
And a TI-89 question? I think personally any true nerd would be using a RPN based calculator 
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#207530 - 28/02/2004 13:58
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 510
Loc: NY
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2.380952380952381% nerd blood flows through your veins.
I got the weasel one right.
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -Susan B Anthony
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#207531 - 28/02/2004 14:34
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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old hand
Registered: 28/12/2001
Posts: 868
Loc: Los Angeles
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You must have been trying to get it wrong, because even random guessing should give you 20% or so.
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#207532 - 28/02/2004 14:54
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12341
Loc: Sterling, VA
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14.285714285714286% of me is a huge nerd! I liked the geek test better, though
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#207533 - 28/02/2004 14:54
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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pooh-bah
Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
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Well if I didn't know the answer I selected the last option so as not to cheat. 2% is very achievable if you don't randomly guess.
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#207534 - 28/02/2004 16:41
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 03/12/2002
Posts: 119
Loc: Stratdord-upon-Avon, UK
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Well, to prove the strength of guessing, I managed 40.476190476190474% and I didn't actually know more than a handful!! Or to be more acurate - I not only didn't know most of the answers - I didn't really understand most of the questions!
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#207535 - 28/02/2004 21:20
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 09/03/2002
Posts: 178
Loc: Louisiana, USA
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I forwarded this link to a friend of mine. His response was:
"I scored just over 19%, but in the process, I found a crucial error in thier code. I wonder how much that counts for?"
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#207536 - 28/02/2004 22:29
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 14/07/2002
Posts: 344
Loc: South Carolina
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28.571428571428573% nerd blood flows through your veins. I guess I'll crawl into my corner now. 
Oh, and Half_Geek, maybe you should change your handle to 2_5_geek.
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#207537 - 29/02/2004 03:51
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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I managed 40.something with my UK handicap. There were definitely a bunch of people in there I hadn't heard of, but mainly I think because I stopped gaming and D&D many years ago...
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#207538 - 29/02/2004 08:58
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 03/12/2002
Posts: 119
Loc: Stratdord-upon-Avon, UK
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I seem to remember getting about 30% on the geek test, so perhaps a name change to either Third_Geek or Two_Fifths_Nerd is called for!!
Damn, now I need to work out if I want to be part-Geek or part-Nerd! Decisions, decisions......
Although if I am a 33% Geek and 40% Nerd, what is the last 27% made up of..... Or has wondering that just boosted the 40%?!?
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#207539 - 29/02/2004 09:23
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2858
Loc: Atlanta, GA
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26.19047619047619% Ok, I have to admit I didn't know there was a 0th law of robotics and I've read a LOT of Asimov (but it's been a while). I just figured they were counting like geeks do (always start with 0!  )
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#207540 - 29/02/2004 09:25
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 14/01/2002
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Loc: Atlanta, GA
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18. List these Sith Lords in chronological order of their birth: Lincoln, Roosevelt, Clinton, Bush
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
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#207541 - 29/02/2004 11:13
Re: A Friday Link... How nerdy are you?
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Registered: 20/12/1999
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Loc: Seattle, WA
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Ok, I have to admit I didn't know there was a 0th law of robotics and I've read a LOT of Asimov (but it's been a while). I just figured they were counting like geeks do (always start with 0! ) I didn't know there was, either. I'm guessing it came from either a later Asimov work, or from someone other than Asimov. I don't know if I got the answer right, but my guess was based on the fact that the other questions contained 1, 2, and 3, so therefore it couldn't be one of those.
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