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 ]