The Gullibility Factor
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r988

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7,495 posts

259 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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http://www.newstarget.com/gullibility.html

[quote=stupid gullibility test]Your GF score is 94.

Mind slave = 0
Free thinker = 100

Free Thinker
Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more areas (music, art, software development, inventing, etc.)

If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one.

Your architects: You have cast off reality distortions taught to you by your parents, schooling, corporate advertising and government propaganda. You create your own beliefs based on what serves you best, without much regard for what the rest of the crowd is doing. You are guided by your own internal code of ethics (which may or may not agree with politically-correct ethical codes) rather than any pre-set system of ethics (such as from any one religion). [/quote]

This will probably start a number of huge arguments but oh well, I'd say this seems more like a test of who is the craziest conspiracy theorist though, probably a plot to lure in Conspiracy theorists and then put them on a Govt list :) yep thats me, wheres a smiley with a tin foil hat...

diddyman

3,646 posts

271 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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OH dear, I only got 25%...

nel

4,830 posts

271 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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This is all irrelevant because the word gullible has been taken out of the Oxford English dictionary.

diddyman

3,646 posts

271 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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anonymous said:
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Darn, foiled again!

nuclearsquash

1,329 posts

292 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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i think it might be safe to say that that website may have an anti-government/corporate agenda.

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

263 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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nuclearsquash said:
i think it might be safe to say that that website may have an anti-government/corporate agenda.


Me thinks I'm not the only one to have read the stated 'correct' answers...

Zod

35,295 posts

288 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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You have to be gullible to take that test. The test is set by someone with an anti-US government agenda. If it confiend itself to hard facts, it would be fine, but it doesn't.

r988

Original Poster:

7,495 posts

259 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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Zod said:
You have to be gullible to take that test. The test is set by someone with an anti-US government agenda. If it confiend itself to hard facts, it would be fine, but it doesn't.


hehe I knew it would get you all going, I warned you its for conspiracy theorists only, multiple choice tests like this and those personality tests are so easy to cheat since its normally obvious what is the 'correct' answer.

In the case of this test just take the normal answer you would give and do the opposite, instant good score

At least they didn't mention weather control though...

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

263 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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Zod said:
You have to be gullible to take that test. The test is set by someone with an anti-US government agenda. If it confiend itself to hard facts, it would be fine, but it doesn't.


No, you have to be gullible to take the test without being suspicious of what the 'correct' answers are or thinking it will really tell you how gullible you are.

First thing I did afer wizing through it and guessing on a few I didn't know the answer to at all (who'd have thought Muller did fresh ground insect corners? , if they do of course, I haven't the foggyist and wouldn't like to take just their word of it on that) Was look for the 'correct' answers. More than a few are correct either way - Take the A-bomb one, don't think they are right at all but don't try to tell me that there wasn't an eliment of look at what we got here boy's about it, even as a side issue.

james_j

3,996 posts

285 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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This is not necessarily a gullibility test but a test of knowledge of perhaps obscure things.

For example, if you'd have shown early man a wristwatch he would probably have concluded that it was the work of God. That doesn't make him gullible (for having that belief), just ignorant.

forever_driving

1,869 posts

280 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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If you answer everything 'false', you still get a score of 85! It pays to be a cynic

pesty

42,655 posts

286 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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"Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live"

sooooooo I'm a free thinker eh? well in that case I will use my free thinking brain and describe thi stest as a complete bag of shite!

andy mac

73,668 posts

285 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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82%... Free Thinker
Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more are..
Blah blah...

If you think about it, most of them are completely common sense, witha few tricky ones thrown in!

groucho

12,134 posts

276 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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Your GF score is 61.
(Out of a range of 0 - 100, where 0 = mind slave, and 100 = free thinker.)
Mind slave Free thinker
0 (You) 100


Learner
As a Learner, you're smart enough to know better, yet you're still not fully informed about reality. Around 15% of the population are Learners. You have the critical thinking skills to be a truly free individual, but you haven't exercised them enough yet. From time to time, you're still manipulated by the powers that be, although you frequently learn from those mistakes and refuse to be exploited again. You buy things because they are practical, not because they're cool.
If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, but you would still be in a state of mild disbelief about the nature of reality. You are essentially unplugged, but still untrained. With more knowledge, you could become a true free thinker.

Your architects: You have always been an independent thinker. You rebelled against your parents, schoolteachers and always chose to hang out with smart friends who weren't necessarily that popular to the "in" crowd. Increasingly, you shape your own world by deciding what actions to take based on your own internal drive rather than what society tells you is right.

Action steps: Learn more. Educate yourself through alternative media and cutting-edge books. Read the answers below to get started.

ichikitsune

211 posts

269 months

Monday 5th September 2005
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website said:

Your GF score is 85.
(Out of a range of 0 - 100, where 0 = mind slave, and 100 = free thinker.)

Free Thinker
Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more areas (music, art, software development, inventing, etc.)
If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one.

Your architects: You have cast off reality distortions taught to you by your parents, schooling, corporate advertising and government propaganda. You create your own beliefs based on what serves you best, without much regard for what the rest of the crowd is doing. You are guided by your own internal code of ethics (which may or may not agree with politically-correct ethical codes) rather than any pre-set system of ethics (such as from any one religion).


Mwahahahaha, I'm a cynical toad...