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June 11, 2005

A quiz of no meaning

So, I went to visit culturekitchen and came across a quiz she took to determine your worldview. (www.quizfarm.com)

So, I took it too. Well, I gotta say, they got it all wrong. Here are my results:

You scored as Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.

Existentialist

88%

Materialist

88%

Cultural Creative

81%

Idealist

75%

Postmodernist

69%

Romanticist

63%

Modernist

50%

Fundamentalist

31%

 

What is Your World View? (updated)

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This is totally wrong. I mean totally. I am a hardcore modernist. The questions (like all polls) forced me to choose from a preset of answers. So, when asked if I "Strongly Agree" that "All that exists is matter and energy." The answer is yes. And no. They do ask another question about life transcending fundamental physical particles. Since I guess that addresses emergent properties, I strongly agree with that too. So, do those questions cancel each other out?  Is that why I scored higher in Romanticism? And what's up with Fundamentalism? I strogly agreed with several questions where the issue was "spirituality." But, no question asked me to define the spiritual...

I recommend taking this test. Only so when it comes to tell you that what you think about yourself is wrong, you can reaffirm what you think about yourself by looking at these questions and saying, "No, it's more complicated than that..."

Posted by George Hamp on June 11, 2005 at 04:05 AM | Permalink

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in the realm of 'tell me something important, but i want to discover it by a web quiz' - check out belief-o-matic while you're at it. i discovered (a few years back) that, at least in principle or according to my multiple choice belief system, i should be selling oatmeal. huh.

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

Posted by: b | Jul 1, 2005 12:52:07 AM

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