[Taxacom] oh dear...

[Stephen Thorpe]

Eric, award yourself a further point or two for being fascinated by questionnaires and the ambiguities therein! :)
Also, note that any aspie who interpreted question 9 along the lines of (A) will have erroneously deprived themselves of due points! ... well, depending on what exactly is meant by "fascinated by" ...

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Eric.Zurcher at csiro.au [Eric.Zurcher at csiro.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 6 October 2009 11:58 a.m.
To: jim.croft at gmail.com; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] oh dear...

Perhaps the real test for Taxacomers can be found in question 9: "I am fascinated by dates".

On first reading, did you think this question referred to:

        A) Arranged social meetings, especially with a member of the opposite sex

        B) Calendars and chronology

        C) Palms of the genus Phoenix, or their edible fruits

Give yourself extra points if you select "C".

Eric Zurcher (score of 34, before applying this adjustment)
CSIRO Plant Industry
Canberra, Australia
Eric.Zurcher at csiro.au


| -----Original Message-----
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| [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Croft
| Sent: Monday, 5 October 2009 9:57 AM
| To: TaxaCom
| Subject: [Taxacom] oh dear...
|
| feeling particularly misanthropic and ill disposed towards humanity
| and the planet in general at the moment and managed to score a very
| comfortable 36 (!) on:
| http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html
|
| Gut feeling is that the test is skewed towards the mass of boring
| people in the world and that taxonomists, nomenclaturists,
| systematists, collections managers, biodiversity informaticians,
| ICBN/ICZN junkies and taxacom subscribers would lie several standard
| deviations outside the control group...  :)
|
| jim
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