MetaFilter posts tagged with test

State of berkelium (Bk) at 0° C and 1 atmosphere of pressure

netbros — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:30:47 -0800

Knowledge Score is a general knowledge quiz game. Categories include Art, Astronomy, Food and Drink, Geography, History, Literature, Movies, Politics, Music, Economics, Languages, Sports, Math and more. If you want to try out Knowledge Score without registering, use the "Play as guest" feature.

"Oh God, I could do better than that..."

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:22:52 -0800

Bored kid on a Friday night in 1974 in the States? The Midnight Special. Bored kid on a Friday night in the UK? The Old Grey Whistle Test! Wha… huh? On a shoestring budget of just £500 an episode, for 16 years the BBC2s OGWT played host to live performances* from some of the most influential musicians of the time at their artistic peaks. Like who? Well, there's…

…just to name a few. [Inspired by philip-random's great post] * - Incredibly good live performances.

"Our system allows you to clone your best, most reliable people"

orthogonality — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:39:53 -0800

Strongly Disagree: It bothers you a long time when someone is unfair to you. Other people's feelings are their own business. When people make mistakes, you correct them. You are a fairly private person. You don't believe a lot of what people say.
Strongly Agree: Any trouble you have is your own fault. It is maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free. When someone treats you badly, you ignore it. You agree with people more often than you argue. You are careful not to offend people. You can wait patiently for a long time. You finish your work no matter what. You know when someone is in a bad mood, even if they don't show it. Your friends and family approve of the things you do. Your moods are steady from day to day.
....the expected answers... are always "Strongly Agree" or "Strongly Disagree." You actually have four options to choose from, when asked whether a statement applies to you or not... [but] "Disagree" or "Agree" are NEVER the right answer to any question, even though any sensible person will have mixed feelings about all these questions.

Benito was notoriously good-natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma. The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him. Reality for Benito was always sunny.

Coffee or tea?

Artw — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:17:48 -0800

Do you qualify to be a UK Citizen? From the looks of Twitter it seems that many UK Citizens don’t.

Senese Challenge From the BBC

blue_beetle — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:06:26 -0800

Challenge Your Senses

Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.

blue_beetle — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:36:35 -0800

The ultimate exam. 15 questions designed to test your knowledge and abilities in a variety of subjects.

Near death experience

puckish — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:01:00 -0800

Australian auto website offers anatomy of a crash-- a point by point account of what happens during an accident, up to and including the moment you realize it's happening. "One way to appreciate the slowness of your perception is to compare it to the speed of mechanical devices. Take this incredible, sobering "anatomy of a crash"....With fine-grained temporal resolution, it analyzes what happens when a stationary Ford Falcon XT sedan is struck in the driver’s door by another vehicle traveling at 50 kilometers per hour" (via 3quarksdaily) Of related interest: David Eagleman on whether our perception of time slows down during terrifying events (short answer: no) and how you would test this in the first place (short answer: strap a chronometer to your test subject and throw him off a building)

diagnose your blog.

lunit — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:48:57 -0800

What type is that blog? Apply the classic psychological assessment Myers-Briggs Test and its sixteen personality types to your blog. Metafilter is ISTP. AskMe is ISTJ and so is MetaTalk. Music is ESFP.

New AI "Elbot" Scores 20% On Turing Test!

goodhelp — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:07:10 -0800

Think you can stump the Elbot? Give it a try. Maybe your interaction will enable it to "learn" an extra 10% more to pass the 30% threshold of the Turing Test. The test is to fool a panel of people who talk with AI entities via text and guess if it's a real person or a robot.Mr Smarty Pants where are you?

Hue test.

zardoz — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:11:26 -0800

How's your hues? Test your color hue ability with this online test. Horizontally drag 'n' drop the squares in the correct hue order.

I spy with my little eye, a magpie.

jamaro — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:48:58 -0800

The humble magpie joins humans, apes, dolphins, and elephants in Club Self-Awareness.

Goats = Dowry

blue_beetle — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:53:02 -0800

How many goats are you worth? You've always wondered. Take the quiz and find out.

At least I got the number right

aerotive — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:51:05 -0800

An interesting test with a laudable goal. Youtube video about change blindness, academic paper (PDF) about it.

Test Your Mechanical Aptitute

maxwelton — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:27:56 -0800

Are you fairly handy? Well how about theoretically handy? Take this test to find out how mechanically apt you are. Hint: be very literal when looking at the pictures and read the questions carefully. Don't over-think. (ie, "bean-plate"). Click on the symbol at lower left to show the question list, which will show you what answered correctly or incorrectly. When you're finished, you can click on any missed question to discover the correct answer.

100 wallets dropped in front of hidden cameras to test honesty...

goo — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:16:12 -0800

Wallettest. "...Each of the 100 wallets contained $2.10 in real money, a fake $50.00 gift certificate, some miscellaneous items and a clearly written ID card identifying the lost wallet's rightful owner. We were curious as to how honest people would be and wanted to see how different groups would compare to each other. For example, who would return the wallets more often... men or women? Young or old?" Results.

It's gonna be multiple choice, right?

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:52:59 -0800

Think you're smart? Apply for a Prize Fellowship at Oxford's All Souls College. [via adrianhon]

The song and tap dance of bottled waters

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:54:13 -0800

An unscientific, blind taste-test of US$55/btl bottled vs tap water

A Real Australian Citizenship Test

mosessis — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:31:55 -0800

Like the US, the UK, and Canada before it, Australia has recently announced that, as part of its new citizenship guidelines, prospective citizens must pass a test with questions relating to Australian history, society, and culture. Not everyone is a fan of the test, though, or the information on it, and today The Age has released its own suggestions for a citizenship test. Could you pass it?

Do I Know You?

jacquilynne — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:53:34 -0800

Test your facial, verbal and object memory.

Smash!

dersins — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:16:01 -0800

Crash tests. Exactly what it sounds like. Double-Link-YouTube-Filter.

New age of ignorance

bobbyelliott — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:23:04 -0800

The new age of ignorance. A panel of well known (UK) scientists and artists are asked some basic questions about science. Except the questions weren't that basic (since when is the Second Law of Thermodynamics considered basic knowledge?) so the results weren't surprising... although some of the answers were amusing ("The sky is blue because the sea reflects on it."). The worrying thing is that the questions could have been much simpler ("How many planets are there in the Solar System?") and I suspect the results would have been much the same. Meanwhile, ignorance marches on.

Chinese chemists will eat us all

hoverboards don't work on water — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:53:16 -0800

Win £500 from the Royal Society of Chemistry (or a place on a Chinese science undergraduate course) if your math skills are up to it.

Highly Sensitive People: if you prick us, do we not bleed? and burst into tears? and run from the room and fling ourselves down on the bed?

grumblebee — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:19:17 -0800

Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? This trait ... is inherited by 15 to 20% of the population, and ... seems to be present in all higher animals. Being an HSP means your nervous system is more sensitive to subtleties. Your sight, hearing, and sense of smell are not necessarily keener .... But your brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply. Being an HSP also means, necessarily, that you are more easily overstimulated, stressed out, overwhelmed. This trait ... has been mislabeled as shyness (not an inherited trait), introversion (30% of HSPs are actually extraverts), inhibitedness, fearfulness, and the like. HSPs can be these, but none of these are the fundamental trait they have inherited ...
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Smart or Stoopid?

JPowers — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:30:27 -0800

Are you Smart or Stoopid? A quick, entertaining and (for me) reasonably challenging way to determine your level of intelligence. Be sure to post your score.

Unique aircraft testing videos.

loquacious — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:24:07 -0800

Load testing a Boeing 777 wing. To failure! Also, engine testing, and maximum rejected takeoff.