A Test of Your Mind

Apr 15 23:50 UTC 1997

I figure the test conference would be an appropriate place to put a, well,
a test.  I got this in my mail recently and for S&G decided to take it.  I
had a few of my friends take it too and we came up with some strange
results.  So in order to increase sample size and not bias the sample, I
figured I'd dump it here and if any of our fellow beta testers wanna take
the time to well, take the test, feel free to post your results. 
Disclaimer: this results are only for fun and will not be held against you
in any way shape or form :) 

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Introduction

It is possible to test how male of female your own mind is. The extent to
which men and women exhibit masculine of feminine behaviour is dependent
on the organization of the brain into male or female patterns.  It is
possible to be female and have some male mind attributes, and this simply
depends on the prescence or absence of the male hormone during certain
stages of pregnancy.

1. You hear an indistinct meow. Without looking around, how well can you
place the cat?
a. If you think about it, you can point to it.
b. You can point straight to it.
c. You don't know if you could point to it.

2. How good are you at remembering a song you've just heard?
a. You find it easy and you can sing part of it in tune.
b. You can only do it if it's simple and rhythmical
c. You find it difficult.

3. A person you've met a few times telephones you. How easy is it for you
to recognize that voice in a few seconds before the person tells you who
they are?
a. You'd find it quite easy.
b. You'd recognize the voice at least half the time.
c. You'd recognize the voice less than  half the time.

4. You're with a group of married friends.  Two of them are having a
clandestine affair. Would you detect their relationship?
a. Nearly always.
b. Half the time
c. Seldom

5. You're at a large and purely social gathering. You're introduced to
five strangers. If their names are mentioned the following day how easy
is it for you to picture their faces?
a. You'll remember most of them
b. You'll remember a few of them.
c. You'll seldom remember any of them

6. In your early school days how easy was spelling and the writing of
essays?
a. Both were quite easy
b. One was easy
c. Neither was easy.

7. You spot a parking place but you must reverse into it -- and it's
going to be a fairly tight squeeze:
a. You look for another space.
b. You back into ... carefully
c. You revers into it without much thought.

8. You've spent three days in a strange village and someone asks you
which way is north:
a. You're unlikely to know.
b. You're not sure but given a moment you can work it out.
c. You point north

9. You're in a dentist's waiting room with half a dozen people of the
same sex as yourself. How close can you sit to one of them without
feeling uncomfortable?
a. less than 6 inches
b. 6 inches to 2 feet
c. over 2 feet

10. You're visiting your new neighbour and the two of you are talking.
There's a tap dripping gently in the background. Otherwise the room is
quiet:
a. You'd notice the dripping sound immediately and try to ignore it.
b. If you noticed it you'd probably mention it
c. It doesn't bother you at all.

Okay, here's the scoring.
Males score a: 10 points, b: 5 points, c: -5 points
Females scores a: 15 points, b: 5 points, c: -5 points
 
Unanswered questions count for 5 points.
 
Most males will score between 0 and 60
Most females will score between 50 and 100.

response 2 of 19:

Apr 17 02:40 UTC 1997

I don't remember how many of each letter I had, but my total score
was a 20 <boggle>
My older sister got a 40.  Her husband got a 65.
I wrote a letter complaining to the guy who sent me this test :)
Apparently he got a 75.
Now, any one else wanna take it and see if the test is really
confused or are we all just weird?  or both?

response 4 of 19:

Apr 18 01:52 UTC 1997

I think the purpose of the different scoring systems was an attempt
to put females in the higher range and males in the lower range.  I
asked about that but it seems that the person who sent it to me had
it sent to him, and so on back and trying to trace the original
person who had this would be too much of a chore.  I think it was
just for fun though <shrug> although if the scale was suppose to push
people into a certain range and some people still end up in the other
range, maybe the test failed its purpose.

If anyone sees this test somewhere else, ask for more details and
maybe we'll solve this mystery yet.

response 6 of 19:

Apr 22 22:45 UTC 1997

Wow, sounds like this test is 100% accurate. Let's try to get
it published in a scholarly journal!    (um, not...)

response 8 of 19:

Apr 23 11:15 UTC 1997

Fruity.

response 10 of 19:

Apr 24 12:39 UTC 1997

Use a blender.

response 14 of 19:

Apr 26 22:51 UTC 1997

I'm not in Ann Arbor.  So much for that theory.
"How do you split 3 apples between 7 people?"
"Make applesauce"
Hey is there such a thing as orangesauce?

response 16 of 19:

Apr 27 14:46 UTC 1997

It's called "orange slush".

response 18 of 19:

Apr 29 11:37 UTC 1997

Definitely orange. When I was a young'n, that may have been the
only flavor there was.