I enjoy taking these quizzes, but they can be frustrating. I think many of the statements are too vague. For example, "I find it hard to do more than one thing at once." Well, I can type 55 WPM and sing at the same time, which I've been told is odd (although I can't play piano and sing at the same time). When I worked retail I could take counter inventory and count down multiple running cash drawers simultaneously. But at (office) work I need to finish one task before taking on another. At school, I couldn't both study and pay attention to my peers at the same time. At home I can't start a new project until I finish the previous - even if it takes days.
Or "People often tell me that I go on and on about the same thing." Well, I don't often talk to people, so it's hard to answer that one. "I find it hard to work out people's intentions." I've grown to be very suspicious over the years and rarely take what people say at face value anymore because they tend to say what they want you to hear rather than what's true. So I try to find the intentions, as to whether I'm good at it, that's another question. "I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own." Well, if I'm working on a project, or an errand or really anything familiar and normal I do in a day, it doesn't occur to me to involve anyone else. But if I'm faced with something new and/or social, I've got to have someone there I trust or I tend to get so overwhelmed I mess everything up. "I tend to concentrate on the big picture rather than focus on the small details." Well, I do both. It seems to me that I try to do what's appropriate for the situation. If we're talking about a skill or a new subject I'm learning, I focus on the tiniest detail. One of my obsessions is nutrition and it's not enough to know the food groups or vitamins, I have to understand how everything works down to the most seemingly inconsequential anutrient. But if we're talking about an interpersonal conflict, I find it's best to look at the big picture. Has the conflict happened before and what's the bigger pattern -- that way it can be solved rather than nit-picked.
But maybe I'm just nit-picking now. At any rate, on the Newsweek quiz I scored a 42 (where "most people with AS score about 35").
I wish I could take the rdos quiz because everyone here seems to think highly of it, but I can't figure out what's going wrong. On the first page it asks for personal information, and when I click Submit it says "Username already in use" - but it hasn't asked for a user name yet! So I try to register a user name first and then fill out the personal info page and it tells me "Invalid birth data and / or gender." No, I'm pretty sure I know my gender and birth date - anyway, what has that got to do with my username? I don't know what's happening. If it would just let me get to the quiz and skip these pages I'd probably be fine.
gbollard wrote:
cantjoinem wrote:
What animals do you consider to be scary?
Well, here in Australia we have some quite scary spiders (funnel webs and red-backs), scary snakes (death adders, tiger snakes, brown snakes), scary marine life (white pointers, blue-ringed octopus, box jellyfish, Irukandji jellyfish, crocodiles), we've got scorpions too but they're not as much of a danger - and of course, there's the cane toad.
You have some beautiful animals in Australia. I recently saw a Martha Stewart episode with a segment on Australian animals and now I want to go there! Everything is so colorful.
Spiders.. I like to say I have a healthy respect for spiders. We have brown recluse and black widows here and those do scare me because I've seen the damage they can do. I also don't go out to the parks as often as I'd like due to rattlesnakes in the area. Jellyfish -- I think I should be more afraid of jellyfish than I am. I've been to the coast when jellyfish were washing up on shore by the thousands and it took me a while to realize that I was the only person at the beach that day walking in the water. Everyone else kept their distance but it just didn't occur to me to stay back. They're pretty fascinating creatures to look at. I just found it so sad that they were all going to die out there. And I think I have an unnatural attraction to octopi (octopuses?). I don't know what it is but I just really admire them. They look like a mass of mush but they're so intelligent. There's something humorous about it, I think.
_________________
can't beat 'em, can't join 'em... now what?
Last edited by cantjoinem on 19 Jul 2008, 1:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
19 Jul 2008, 5:42 am
Now my fear is I've found the right planet and I'll still be invisible... time will tell.
