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My results for this quiz on commonly confused words?

I’m an English Genius! I got 100 percent!

This test was too easy. Everyone with a high school diploma should be able to ace this.

There was exactly one question where I had to think for a few seconds about which word to choose.

I hesitated over another question involving punctuation, rather than spelling, because I didn’t understand at first that that’s what was being asked for, and then because I had trouble visually distinguishing between the two marks in question.

The graphs at the results page are all heavily skewed towards high scores, even on the Expert section. I’d like to see something more like a two-tailed bell curve. On the other hand, it looks like the sample size is relatively small, so far, and I expect that only people who care about grammar and vocabulary at all will bother to take the quiz.

[Ahem. This post has been up for, oh, two minutes, and I've already corrected four or five errors.]

Here’s an interesting and informative quiz concerning Federal gun laws.

I got 100%, correctly answering all 14 questions.

In honor of Gygax, I try to find out what sort of Dungeon and Dragons character I am.

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Wizard (7th Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-12
Dexterity-10
Constitution-12
Intelligence-16
Wisdom-16
Charisma-11

Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard’s strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.

Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

This is on a scale of 2-18; I’m about average.

Um, I think the quiz overestimates my strength.

My score on the Civics Literacy Quiz:

You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %
Average score for this quiz during February: 71.3%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 71.3%

I swear on Darwin’s Gonads I did not Google the answers, or I wouldn’t have missed the first question, much less the 35th.

This quiz was given to 7000 college seniors, who got an overall score of 54.2%, an “F”. The best school ranked was Harvard, whose seniors got 69.7%–a “D-”.

Oh, I love this: “America’s Most Prestigious Universities Performed the Worst.”

See major findings of the survey here.

Via William the Coroner.

Answers to the ones I missed:
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FYI: I have about two years of college, mostly at community colleges, mostly on technical topics, but I’ve learned almost everything from this quiz on my own, not in school.