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[arethinn]

Does anyone know what's broken about OKCupid tests that they always report "you scored higher than 99% of other people" on every axis in every test? At least, that's what I always see, and robin_greenwood just posted some quiz results that show the same phenomenon.

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[unseelie.livejournal.com]

you are an amazing person , and know some amazing people...

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I'm sensing a meme. ^_-

*hugs*

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

i just assumed i was really, really, really special...

[gothikfaerie.livejournal.com]

i'm rather more befuzzled that you *know* . i mean, its not a 100% wtf moment, but what with you being on opposite sides of the continent and all..

(btw, just took the Metaphysician Test on there and got a normal response.. might've been a temporary glitch?)

[gothikfaerie.livejournal.com]

er, ok, i can has proper lj user code naow? Referring to Our Robin, there..

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Heh... in the notification email I just see the code itself, of course, so though it said <j user="robin_greenwood"> (missing the "l" in "lj"), I still knew what you meant.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I don't. You, or someone else, mentioned him in a post, and I thought "oo, that's a cool user name! I'll click on it!"

The test results are normal, and ones with multiple axes the scores of "you got 50% honesty, 30% cheese, and 85% sparkliness" before the result are fine. I mean the part that compares you to "others of your age and gender" -- I always see "higher than 99%" on all of them. Maybe it's because I'm not logged in with an account? (But I provide my age and gender to get the results anyway, so I don't see why that should be it...)