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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 8, 2020 8:41:36 GMT -5
Hmm. This is a possibility.
I'm almost half-afraid to find out what it would post. It'd probably be a weird amalgamation of rambling about Latin, arguing with people over politics, and complaining about work.
I hope I'm an angry faux-libertarian who codes in Latin poetry.
In other news, I took the Scientology personality test for sh*ts and giggles on Tuesday. I wouldn't have taken it if it didn't specify upfront results would be emailed to me. It did specify that, though. It was a very, very long and poorly designed test. They assured me at the end that they would email me my results shortly. I received an email claiming to contain my results, but the email actually told me I needed to visit the Scientology Center to get the results. SCAM!!!!
Mad about my 10 minutes lost and lacking constructive things to do this weekend, I signed up for an appointment for my personalized results. This'll be fun. (Rest assured, I gave a fake name, Becky Smith. It's the perfect fake name, since I do technically respond to Becky since my family calls me that, but I'd never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever willingly go by that... I've hated that name long before it was an internet meme. It's honestly horrible and I don't know who would call their child that.)
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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 9, 2020 12:39:08 GMT -5
I have returned from the scientologists unscathed! Firstly, I hope that there isn’t actually a Becky Smith who lives at 3112 Westledge Rd, Simsbury, Connecticut. If there is, I’m really sorry, the Scientologists now have your name and address. Secondly, my coworker asked me to detail how we might apply the Scientologists' ways to selling our team's products. I've carefully divined their strategy: 1. Invite your clients to fill out an assessment of what they need and then tell them when they can come visit you. They don’t get a choice of time or place—just be there. 2. When the clients arrive, have no record of their appointment. But do give them free DVDs (because they have a DVD player at home) and invite them to wait to watch propaganda while they wait for the assessor 3. Have the assessor pull a no-show, so that they watch propaganda for a long time 4. Lose the assessment the client took, and ask them to take it again instead. 5. Have them watch another propaganda video about all of the departments of your company while they wait for their test to be scored. Make sure the client knows lots about the department structure of the company, but be sure not to provide them a video that tells them what your product is actually about and why they should buy it. That would be a waste of the client’s time. 6. Hand them a graph and tell them they really need to improve in this one area. Assessment ends in 5 minutes, after the client has already invested 2 hours at the office. 7. ? ? ? 8. PROFIT!!!! ATTENTION URGENT re my WITHDRAWN nature!!!! Otherwise, I'm a very well-adjusted individual I'd also like to point out that the fact that they used a line graph to plot out discrete data points is offensive. Oh, and one final note: as my parting gift, I recommended Slay the Spire to one of the Scientologists. I hope his life is henceforth ruined.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Feb 9, 2020 18:35:41 GMT -5
This graph suggests that you are of an above average happiness.
We can no longer be friends.
In fact, we might well be mortal enemies.
There is little more in life more deserving of hatred than happy people. By merely existing in their happy state, they remind others of the immense pain and suffering that regular people endure just to survive the day. They claim that if you smile at others, they are likely to smile back. Well, when my dog is dead, my car broken, and my life empty and pitiful, the last thing in the world I want to see is your smile. And yet smile they do, as if their lives are so free of suffering that they have joy to spare.
F*ck you happy people. You killed my dog.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 10, 2020 8:11:53 GMT -5
I must say, I am pleased I came out as well-adjusted according to their test. Take that, motherf*ckers. I ain't got no thetans hangin' on me.
Although, do I really want to be considered well-adjusted according to Scientology terms?
The truth to Scientologist happiness? Taking Lexapro. Sacrilege. Don't let them find out! I took a pamphlet on the evils of antidepressants with me and laughed my way to the proverbial happiness bank.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Feb 10, 2020 12:02:26 GMT -5
You came out well-adjusted, yet insanely withdrawn. How can someone be simultaneously withdrawn, active and "aggressive" (which in this instance appears to be pointing more towards your willingness to act on your own behalf). Obviously it's a BS test, but it seems to me it could be a much more convincing BS test if they put just a little bit of thought into it. Then again, I'm sure the idea of using a line graph is to give a visual of something plummeting (thereby reinforcing how urgent the situation is), so perhaps more thought has gone into it than I wish to credit.
Also how is "Acceptable under perfect conditions" a range? If there is a difference between 110 happiness and 130 happiness (what is this, The Sims?), then how can all of those numbers be 'acceptable under perfect conditions'? Perfect is the best it's going to be: it can't get any better, so how can that constitute a range? If things are at 110, but the range extends to 130, then 110 is not 'perfect' is it?
Anyway I think that about sums up my quick analysis of the Scientology graph. I see enough crazy nuts at "normal" religions to give me an adequate number of headaches. I don't need extended exposure to super psychos, tyvm.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 10, 2020 13:40:51 GMT -5
I mean, all of the questions were terribly constructed, so... of course the metrics don't make sense. (WTF is the scale supposed to be mean, anyway? A percentile goes from 1 to 99... They didn't even bother to label their Y-axis.) There is actually a very specific way you're supposed to word questions on psychometric tests and polls, and they definitely didn't do that; for instance, if you wanted to ask whether someone votes, you ask, "Do you vote, or do you not vote?", making each answer seem plausible and acceptable. Asking "do you vote?" (especially on questions where people feel implicit pressure to give the "correct" answer, like in voting) makes people more likely to say yes, because they feel like they're expected to.
But, hell, asking them to structure their questions in a proper format is a tall stretch when sometimes the questions didn't even sound like natural English...
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Derman
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Post by Derman on Feb 11, 2020 14:03:56 GMT -5
In other news, I took the Scientology personality test for sh*ts and giggles on Tuesday. I do a lot of weird stuff for sh*ts and giggles, but I've never even considered taking Scientology personality test... Although to be fair, Scientology isn't really a thing here as far as I can tell. Is the IQ section really "passable under perfect conditions" if it's slightly above 100 and "attention needed" if it's below 100? Isn't the point of IQ tests to place the average person at 100? Is it really a bad thing if you are only slightly smarter than average person... I think you should frame that and put it on a wall.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 15, 2020 12:49:12 GMT -5
It's really an impressive graph in all respects, really.
I didn't even know taking an IQ test was a possibility with them until I got the results back. Part of me is sorry I didn't have the opportunity to take that, too*. I have actually had my IQ tested by a psychologist for school, so I'm not unfamiliar with how IQ tests are designed and why. Given how badly their personality test was structured, I can only imagine how bad their IQ test must be. It's probably like those online IQ tests you can take online that are all brain teasers or whatever. (Is it possible to get a bad score on online IQ tests? Seems like they only ever give out genius-level scores, even to people you know are total dunces?)
*Note that I am not sorry enough that I would go back and take the IQ test as well. I have my limits, and that is a hard no thank you.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Feb 17, 2020 23:35:57 GMT -5
So D-Man, how did the test go?
The problem with being stuck in this waiting limbo is that I find it very hard to focus on anything for too long. I've started posts a couple of times, then lose steam part-way through. I can't say I enjoy this.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 18, 2020 0:01:31 GMT -5
When do you hear back?
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Feb 18, 2020 9:50:55 GMT -5
Anywhere from early March to mid-April.
Usually it's easy to put things out of my head because I can do other things (e.g. I've never had much issue waiting for final grades because I just focus on having fun during summer break). However right now I spend time every day walking (to build endurance) and studying Japanese. It's hard not to think of Japan when a good 2-3 hours of my day are spent in service to it. The thing that's so frustrating is, if I -don't- get it, I'll feel like I really spent a lot of time preparing, and it'll make the blow that much more crushing. Yet, whenever I'm doing something unrelated, I feel like I'm wasting what precious little time I could potentially have to prepare. Basically no matter what I do with my time, I'm constantly reminded of it in context to getting to go, which makes me super conscious of time, which naturally makes it seem like it's passing more slowly than a bill through congress.
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Post by Derman on Feb 18, 2020 12:20:50 GMT -5
It went pretty well considering how I had less time to prepare than I thought.
The whole coronavirus thing has been mostly just a thing on the news for me, but now that I have a couple of things that need to be shipped from china, the virus is starting to affect me in the way of "Your order will be delayed by at least 1-3 weeks due to manufacturing issues...". Maybe I should be a bit more worried about the virus? I feel like the bigger issue with the whole coronavirus case is the amount of false and unverified information spreading around regarding the virus and china in general, which makes it very difficult to actually care about it.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Feb 18, 2020 14:39:31 GMT -5
Glad to hear it went well.
I've just put the Coronavirus out of my mind. It's one of those things where there really isn't much you can do other than the things you already should be doing, unless you want to go full 100% panic mode and stay at home 24/7 like a hermit. But, working at a middle school, I know to wash my hands thoroughly before touching or eating anything. I know not to cough on other people, or get too close to coughing kids. Don't share your lunch with your friend if your friend is sick (unless you're done with it!). Don't spit in your friend's mouth if they are sick. Don't spoon your friend...
...you get the gist. If you're super concerned about anything you've ordered from China, I'd recommend wiping it down with alcohol before you use it.
And no, I don't mean whiskey.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 18, 2020 14:49:21 GMT -5
I'm not at all concerned with the coronavirus. I think these things often become mass hysteria easily...
I've seen a few people wearing masks around here, which is silly IMO. It's not like New York is in the middle of an outbreak or anything...
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Post by Youngster Joey on Feb 18, 2020 19:01:32 GMT -5
get call from 212 area code, which means it's actually a real person calling from the new york city area and not a robo callmake the mistake of picking it upstudent: HI! i'm a student at NYU well, f**kstudent: so, as a current student, i'd love to hear your advice on college. you studied psychology. do you feel like you use your major? did you enjoy your time at NYU? me: well, i wouldn't have done my major again, but i liked the college well enough. student: oh. haha. (in retrospect, i think she said she might have been a psych major as well? oops. oh well, chances are you're not gonna use it either) awkward silencestudent: and the other reason i'm calling is because 80% of our students use some sort of financial aid [some facts about financial aid]. it would really mean a lot if you donated. would you like to donate? me: no student: oh. hangs upnot even oh thanks, just hangs up. nice. i appreciate that we both know what the call was really about, and you might as well abruptly end the pleasantries once we've both determined this call is useless. in all seriousness, i need to get off their calling list... they call me several times a year. i'm never gonna donate, ever
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