I was searching the 'net for local bowling alleys (for my glow bowl date set for this weekend), and I even found a page that looked relatively useful, but my attention was detracted away from it by one of those noisome pop up ads. It was an ad for an IQ test offered on the Emode website, the self-proclaimed "#1 destination for self-discovery." More to the point, it's a collection of those little tests you can usually find in such magazines as Cosmo. It may be the case that these have a little more credence, but I can't personally attest to that. I went with the impulse to click on it and proceeded to answer the forty questions. The majority of them were simple, but two really had me stumped, numbers 26 and 35. Rather than let them drive me insane, I just gave my best guesses and waited somewhat impatiently for my score to be tallied. After signing up for more spam, I mean an Emode account, I received them. No, I'm not going to tell you what I got. I will tell you that I wasn't happy with the results. I was further humbled when I found out that Andrew scored was 4 points higher than mine. In addition to discovering that I'm a moron whose IQ apparently plummeted since the last IQ test I was given in the fifth grade, I'm a "Word Warrior."
Quoting from the e-mail that this image was attached to, "This means you have exceptional verbal skills. You can easily make sense of complex issues and take an unusually creative approach to solving problems. Your strengths also make you a visionary."
Andrew's comment on the situation: "Geez, isn't being smarter than 98-99% of the world's population enough?" Why no, it just isn't.
-- CrystalShiloh @ 12:42 PM