Are you a geek ? (yeah right, like I need to ask)

[PvK]

It gave my answers a 18.14596% - Geek.

I think the term geek is so subjective it doesn't consistently mean anything, even if it means many different things to different people. Personally, I don't think of myself as a geek, except to mean someone who's interested in intellectual things, including computers, games, and things outside USA pop culture crap. That's one way that it's USA-centric, since USA culture tends to distrust and/or disresepect intellectuals, or anything non-mainstream, or just foreign to the USA. Geek is often a label used by mainstream clods who are afraid to think outside the herd, and so ridicule those who do with a derisive stereotype.

Nonetheless, I can think of several flaws with the test, such as:

The answers don't appear to be waited at all, so "I have Vulcan ears surgically attached" and "I have day-of-the-week underwear" count the same amount as "I play Weird Al Yankovic" or "I own binoculars".

I'd add some more questions (which I'd have to check), such as:

* I criticize the accuracy of this test.
* I have looked at the source code of a web page.
* ... to see how it worked.
* ... to see how this quiz works.

There should also be one for Parasite:

* I figured out that if you click all these boxes, this quiz calls you a liar.
* ... by clicking all the boxes myself.
* ... by reading the source code.
* ... by writing a script to click all the boxes for me.



PvK

[ December 05, 2003, 20:37: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Atrocities]

I scored 9.86193% Geekish Tendancies.

The quiz did not ask a lot of standard geek questions.

The Tough Questions!

1. Are you over weight?
2. Have you ever been on a date?
2a. In the Last year
2a1. More than 1
2a1a. Are you still dating her?
2a1a1. Have you had sex yet?
2b. In the Last two years
2b1. More than 1
2b1b. Are you still dating her?
2b1b1. Did you ever have sex with her?
2c. In the Last five years
2c1. More than 1
2c1c. Are you still dating her?
2c1c1. Did you ever have sex with her?

3. Do you still live with a parent
3a. Are you over 25?
4. Have you ever had sex before?
4a. With a women?
4a1. At a Star Trek Convention or met at one?

5. Do you drive a volvo?
5a. A dessel volvo?
5a1. Does it need to be painted?

6. Do you sit at your computer in costum to RP?
7. Did you give your computer a name?
8. Do you talk to a hand puppet or pillow?
9. Is your hair always messed up and or oily?
10. Do you shy away from women?
11. Do you think your to nice?
12. Do you often look up and ask Scotty to beam you up?
13. Do you enjoy going to the computer store?
13a. To buy new parts
13a1. To look at the other Geeks?
13a1a. To look at the butt of that fat blue haired chick behind the counter?
13a1a1. To ask the fat blue hairedchick out on a date.

14. Hate guns
14a. But love violent video games?
15. Think that Night Rider was one of the best 80's series ever made?
16. Have never seen an episode of Baby Watch?
17. Participate in no sport or motorized activity?
18. Talk in a nazzally voice
19. Where investing in tech stock when you were 10?
20. Are a self made Microsoft milloniar?

[Cipher7071]

Ya know, geekdom, like so many other fine qualities attributable to human beings, is necessarily of an esoteric nature. One man's geek is another man's Drew Carey. I mean, we've come a long way since those days when early geeks began by biting the heads off chickens. Geez... now geekdom is practically mainstream. I scored 22.09%, which rates as your common garden variety geek. And yet I steadfastly maintain that mediocrity is the hallmark, and yes, the very soul of geekdom. I wear my score proudly.

[Thermodyne]

I got a little over 17. Working in IT, having cable TV, and having a decent education has caused me to be classified as a geek. But at the same time proven the test to be geek-BS. Because everyone knows that redneck and geek can not co-exist in this universe

[Slynky]

Good points, Attrocities!

[DavidG]

I'm surprised this one didn't make the list as it must be one of the geekiest things of all time:

1. I speak the Klingon language. (well that is the language made up by some other geek and called Klingon)

or perhaps:

2. I've read Hamlet writen in Klingon. (YES this book is available. I kid you not)

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by DavidG:
I'm surprised this one didn't make the list as it must be one of the geekiest things of all time:

1. I speak the Klingon language. (well that is the language made up by some other geek and called Klingon)

or perhaps:

2. I've read Hamlet writen in Klingon. (YES this book is available. I kid you not)

And you scored how high?