I definitely missed everytime when it had to be one of the "all above" or similar buttons, so definitely understanding problems on my side. Jens, I am gobsmacked! VERY good!
It was fun to do it though and it would be interesting to know how the result would be, if they had the option "non-native-speakers" as well.
Was fun!
Brigitte
Cran, I am untypical German as I am often too lazy to correct Colin's German, in fact we mostly speak English so I am profiting from his corrections
....and even now I still do not like beer and you should see the looks I get when I say so...."what German and don't drink beer" hehe....
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Wenn die Klügeren nachgeben,
regieren die Dummköpfe die Welt.
(Jean Claude Riber)
You scored 93% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 77% Expert!
# Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
* 100% had lower Beginner scores.
* 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
* 100% had lower Advanced scores.
* 100% had lower Expert scores.
# With respect to Beginner, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
# With respect to Intermediate, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
# With respect to Advanced, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
# With respect to Expert, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
<i>The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.</i>
Tell us something.: This is the first sentence. This is the second of the recommended sentences intended to thwart spam its. This is a third, bonus sentence!
It also told me that I scored higher than 100% of people in my age group in all categories. Does it just say that to everybody? Several people have said that they were given that statistic.
It gave me all those 100% stats too. And to most of the rest of the Chiffboard. This is starting to sound statistically improbable.
I'm almost surprised there was no solicitation at the end. See, once I took the verbal iq test on the website of the International High IQ Society (yes, yes, dumb name, yes,) and I scored pretty well. Whereupon there popped up an immediate offer for me to send them $50 so I could join their bro/sisterhood of equally gullib...I mean, intelligent folk. That dampened my enthusiasm a wee regarding the validity of their iq tests.
Brigitte wrote:
Cran, I am untypical German as I am often too lazy to correct Colin's German, in fact we mostly speak English so I am profiting from his corrections
....and even now I still do not like beer and you should see the looks I get when I say so...."what German and don't drink beer" hehe....
As a person learning German who does not eat meat or drink alcohol, I can definately relate!
The test is fraudulent. I certainly know the difference and applications of "its" and "it's" (just to cite one example of possible word confusion), and made no such mistakes in the test. Trust me.
"Sometimes its calculations are wrong, giving you 0% when you
answered all of them correctly in reality. I am very sorry about this;
however, there is nothing I can do about it!"
Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 66% Expert!
OK, I was a geology major, and English wasn't my strong suit. However, in high school I had this manic teacher named Mr. Casey who liked to scream at me if I made a grammatical mistake. I remember working very hard on a research paper in my senior year of high school. My paper was about the basic virtues of the Greeks, like wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. However, I got a C grade on the paper, mainly because I had two typos. We didn't have word processors then. I had to borrow my uncle Lestor's electric typewriter in his insurance office, after hours, of course. By the time I had the paper finished I was so exhausted that all I wanted to do was to go to sleep. At 12:50 PM I am beginning to feel like that now.
You scored 86% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
Seems like a lousy score to me, despite what the site says. Grammar, especially diagraming sentences always bored me. The test had a similar effect. zzzz
+ Bill
hehe....
