Talent, Lifer, or Mandarin

[matgb]

Silly quiz which showed up from two disparate friends next to each other on my friends page, nhw here ad liz_marcs here. So that's a respectied international diplomat / SF reviewer and a US journalist / fandom commentator. Well, if it's good enough for them I suppose...

I'm a Mandarin!

You're an intellectual, and you've worked hard to get where you are now. You're a strong believer in education, and you think many of the world's problems could be solved if people were more informed and more rational. You have no tolerance for sloppy or lazy thinking. It frustrates you when people who are ignorant or dishonest rise to positions of power. You believe that people can make a difference in the world, and you're determined to try.

Talent: 44%
Lifer: 31%
Mandarin: 54%

Take the Talent, Lifer, or Mandarin quiz.
Some of the questions were a bit 'um?', and a few were very US-centric "did you take the SKWDL test?" why no, no I didn't, because, y'know, I've never heard of it. Still, I got a fairly middle ground set of results (Liz got the same as me for Mandarin, but much higher for Talent and slightly lower for Lifer, Nicholas is way off the scale for Mandarin.

I have a huge text file of saved quiz results in notepad, when people do them I tend to fill in the quiz but not actually post them. At some point, if I get really bored, I may clear that file out. Be afraid, be Very Afraid.

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[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I'm a Mandarin!

You're an intellectual, and you've worked hard to get where you are now. You're a strong believer in education, and you think many of the world's problems could be solved if people were more informed and more rational. You have no tolerance for sloppy or lazy thinking. It frustrates you when people who are ignorant or dishonest rise to positions of power. You believe that people can make a difference in the world, and you're determined to try.

Talent: 33%
Lifer: 44%
Mandarin: 51%

Take the Talent, Lifer, or Mandarin quiz.

[matgb]

UR IN MA HED again. Stoppit!

D'you think, if we could overcome our mutual laziness, that we could conquer the world?

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

This entry is not locked, and I therefore invoke my right to silence on what we would be doing if we could overcome our mutual laziness on the grounds that I might incriminate myself. And you, probably.

But yes, conquering the world might be on the list somewhere.

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

"did you take the SKWDL test?"
The what?

[matgb]

The 'random selection of letters' test. I have a vague idea what a SAT s, but the rest of the things they mentioned were new to me. So I had no idea if I'd even taken the equivalents. Not that it really matters.

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

I'm a Talent!

You're a risk-taker, and you follow your passions. You're determined to take on the world and succeed on your own terms. Whether in the arts, science, engineering, business, or politics, you fearlessly express your own vision of the world. You're not afraid of a fight, and you're not afraid to bet your future on your own abilities. If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume. You believe in doing what you love, and you're not willing to settle for an ordinary life.

Talent: 56%
Lifer: 36%
Mandarin: 49%

Take the Talent, Lifer, or Mandarin quiz.

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

Haha, oh. I didn't actually look at the quiz before, so I was really really confused. :-p

The SAT is the standard aptitude test for getting into college. There's a math section, a verbal section, and a writing section. The GRE is basically the same thing, only for getting into grad school. The LSAT is for getting into law school and has math, verbal, logic, and writing. And the MCAT is for getting into med school, but I don't know many details about it. Same idea, though.

[matgb]

Ah, so in that case I've taken the equivalent of the SAT twice and haven't done the other equivalents because, well, only did my BA.

Cool, thx. I did stop posting these completely, but I do like when my friends post, even if it's only a quiz, better than nowt, so I may dig up a bigger pile of them.