{"id":2108,"date":"2003-11-23T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T18:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=673"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:12:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:12:24","slug":"some-might-call-you-a-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/11\/23\/some-might-call-you-a-nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Some might call you a nerd&#8230;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winding down from the strains of <a href=\"\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=666#666\">pushing out a new version<\/a>, and from the nerve-jangling effects of a late-night wedding party with 130 dB-plus music, I stumbled upon a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/987180.asp?cp1=1\">Digital IQ Test<\/a> pointed out by the stalwart <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walk.com\/blog\/\">J-Walk Blog<\/a>. It turns out that:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/diq.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You are a digital ace, expert in both practice and theory, and you take full advantage of digital tools. Some might call you a nerd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. You don&#8217;t say&#8230; really? \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I thought my score was too low because there were several PDA-related questions and I don&#8217;t have a PDA (actually, I do have one of the first Palm Pilots around somewhere, but it&#8217;s broken) and because some of the questions are somewhat Windows-centric. 43% of test-takers scored in the 110+ category; surprisingly, 14% ranked below 50 (&#8220;Are you sure you&#8217;re really interested in the digital world?&#8221;). It beats me how someone with so low a digital IQ would stumble upon this test &#8211; much less being able to click all the way through it.<\/p>\n<p>Also, clicking mindlessly on reply #1 for all 62 questions elicits a score of 175, which shows that the questions weren&#8217;t properly designed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winding down from the strains of pushing out a new version, and from the nerve-jangling effects of a late-night wedding party with 130 dB-plus music, I stumbled upon a Digital IQ Test pointed out by the stalwart J-Walk Blog. It turns out that: You are a digital ace, expert in both practice and theory, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tests"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-y0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}