{"id":351,"date":"2006-06-27T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/27\/subgenius-social-hedonist\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T13:08:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T13:08:20","slug":"subgenius-social-hedonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/27\/subgenius-social-hedonist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Genius Social Hedonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My traffic has been down a little in the past couple of weeks, which of course can&#8217;t possibly be because I haven&#8217;t posted anything really interesting in that time. No, clearly, it must be that I&#8217;m not playing the game right.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, I have performed an extensive study or high-traffic blogs, to determine what it is that they post that I don&#8217;t, and the answer is clear: Internet personality quizzes. Thus, here are some quiz-type things for your amusement and edification:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/simple-iq.com\/\">timed online IQ test<\/a>. You get 13 minutes to answer 38 true\/false questions, and then it tells you how smart you are. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.aol.com\/johnmscalzi\/bytheway\/entries\/6119\">Scalzi at AOL<\/A>.)<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/3sc.environics.net\/surveys\/3sc\/main\/3sc.asp\">diagnostic test<\/a> for &#8220;people&#8217;s values and tribal membership&#8221; from an outfit called &#8220;Environics.&#8221; A bunch of Agree\/ Disagree type questions giving you your location on a two-dimensional plot of &#8220;Traditional\/Modern&#8221; vs. &#8220;Social\/Individual.&#8221; (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2006_06\/009075.php\">Calpundit Monthly<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Surely, posting these links will boost my traffic into the stratosphere, and I will make <strong>millions<\/strong>. Or something. My results, and miscellaneous commentary below the fold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/challenge.php?id=146\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" alt=\"i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The IQ thing put me at 136, which they claim is just short of &#8220;genius.&#8221; If I thought that meant something, I&#8217;d either be chuffed or offended, I&#8217;m not sure which. They don&#8217;t give you the correct answers, though, so there&#8217;s really not a lot more to say about that.<\/p>\n<p>The more interesting of the two is the &#8220;Environics&#8221; test, which claims to identify the &#8220;tribe&#8221; to which you belong, and provides a helpful list of &#8220;icons.&#8221; As I&#8217;m right on the edge of the age ranges they use for their categories, I could go one of two ways. If I decide to skew old, I&#8217;m a &#8220;Connected Enthusiast,&#8221; which offers the following list of icons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pop star Madonna (Not so much&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Film-maker Denys Arcand (Who?)<\/li>\n<li>Celine Dion (Yikes!)<\/li>\n<li>Shirley MacLaine (*cough* *splutter*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As this is clearly horrifically wrong, I can also opt to skew younger, and end up as a &#8220;Social Hedonist,&#8221; which is at least a better name. The icons, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Race car driver Jacques Villeneuve (Who?)<\/li>\n<li>Extreme sports athletes (Huh?)<\/li>\n<li>Pop-punk band Blink 182 (Well, OK&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Pop star Ricky Martin (What the&#8230;?)<\/li>\n<li>Movie character Austin Powers (Enh.)<\/li>\n<li>Rap star Sisqo (This is a joke, right?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I mean, seriously&#8211; do Sisqo and Ricky Martin even rate the term &#8220;star&#8221; any more?<\/p>\n<p>So, not what you&#8217;d call an smashing success on the personality test front&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My traffic has been down a little in the past couple of weeks, which of course can&#8217;t possibly be because I haven&#8217;t posted anything really interesting in that time. No, clearly, it must be that I&#8217;m not playing the game right. Thus, I have performed an extensive study or high-traffic blogs, to determine what it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/27\/subgenius-social-hedonist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sub-Genius Social Hedonist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}