Ow, my brain

I am smarter than 93.94% of the rest of the world.
The Most Impossible Quiz (via mylescorcoran)

156 IQ, plus some net.savvy

(via mylescorcoran)

A few warnings about this one: First, they demand your email address to send you the results, rather than just giving them to you. And they do this after you've taken the test, so you've already committed time and emotional energy to it. I added "+iq" to my email name, so I'd be easily able to block anything further that comes in with that address.

(Y'all know about that trick, right? Most decent email servers are set up so that if your address is, say name@example.com, you can add a plus sign and any arbitrary string of letters and numbers after the name part and it'll still go through. Say, name+iq@example.com.)

Second, they ask for your name, address, and phone number, and they do some sanity-checking on the info so you can't just make up any old nonsense. I gave them a fake name, my old Jersey City address, and a fake phone number (with a legitimate Jersey City area code).

Third, they then ask for even more identifying info, like your mother's maiden name. Screw that shit. I didn't even fill out that form. By then they had already emailed me my results link.

Fourth, the code they give you for posting to your blog includes a 0-by-0 pixel image at the end with a complicated filename that's probably used for some kind of tracking. I clipped that out before pasting it into this post.

So really, it's both a test of your IQ and a test of your ability to avoid getting your personal info snarfed.

Update: And when you close that third form without filling it out, they give you a pop-up JavaScript window tempting you with a "free gift"! Man, these people are sleazy. I feel like it might have even been a bad idea to log into gMail while I still had one of the post-quiz form pages open in another tab. I just checked, and no dangerous filters have been created in my gMail account, but still.

There, I've yanked the links from around that image. If you want to take that IQ test, you'll have to type the URL by hand, and they won't be getting any google-juice from me.

Gravel/Kucinich '08!

84% Mike Gravel
79% Dennis Kucinich
78% Bill Richardson
74% Barack Obama
74% Chris Dodd
71% John Edwards
70% Hillary Clinton
68% Joe Biden
43% Ron Paul
40% John McCain
39% Rudy Giuliani
35% Mike Huckabee
31% Mitt Romney
25% Tom Tancredo
24% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

(via supergee)

My biggest complaint is that Giuliani comes in above last place.