How gullible are you?

[nancy]

http://www.newstarget.com/gullibility.html

Thought the best PO forum on the net might appreciate this test.

I got 100, which probably makes me the most gullible person on earth.

Love to see what any of you guys (in the neutral gender sense) score, if you are happy to share...

[MacG]

http://www.newstarget.com/gullibility.html

Thought the best PO forum on the net might appreciate this test.

I got 100, which probably makes me the most gullible person on earth.

Love to see what any of you guys (in the neutral gender sense) score, if you are happy to share...

100 would make you among the least gullible persons. I got a lousy 97

[DamianB]

I think you guys are reading this wrong - I got 85

(Out of a range of 0 - 100, where 0 = mind slave, and 100 = free thinker.)

[MacG]

I think you guys are reading this wrong - I got 85

(Out of a range of 0 - 100, where 0 = mind slave, and 100 = free thinker.)

Since I would like to have "100" -free thinker- I think that 97 - free thinker is not yet perfect!

[GD]

If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one.

Cool!

Thanks for the web link Nancy!

Now to get those fillings taken out...

[isenhand]

I like this:

Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more areas (music, art, software development, inventing, etc.)

If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one.

Your architects: You have cast off reality distortions taught to you by your parents, schooling, corporate advertising and government propaganda. You create your own beliefs based on what serves you best, without much regard for what the rest of the crowd is doing. You are guided by your own internal code of ethics (which may or may not agree with politically-correct ethical codes) rather than any pre-set system of ethics (such as from any one religion).

I thought that that summed me up quite nicely

[mopo]

Unfortunately, it could also be used as a test to measure cynicism. As the world and society in which we live has become totally insane, I've got to the point where I believe everything and nothing simultaneously. (or have I just lost the plot?)

[Totally_Baffled]

Actually some really interesting "facts" on there. Although some wiff of conspiracy.

The four I got wrong:

-Cure for cancer -- Never realised that this was true? Are governments realy spending zillions on unnecessary treatments to keep the drugs industry going. Wouldn't G Brown rather save the cash?

-Sun screen -- Too much sun doesn't cause skin cancer? Its all a cover up to sell more sun tan lotion? hmmmm.......

-Japan had already started to surrender before it got nuked?....hmmmmm

- ADHD is made up -- Actually I can believe this one ! I notice now there is "busy womens" syndrome. Somebody is blatently making these up!!

[biffvernon]

The one that I got 'wrong' was this:

All the clean hydrogen we need to power the world is already contained in crystals at the bottom of the ocean called gas hydrates.
TRUE. The mainstream U.S. press doesn't talk about it much, but the world's hydrogen problems have a ready solution. Frozen ice crystals found off the shores of Canada, Japan, Russia, Iceland and other nations with Northern shores contain vast quantities of clean, frozen hydrogen -- enough to power the entire world far beyond the limits of petroleum reserves. The U.S. press doesn't talk much about gas hydrates, preferring to focus on hydrogen derived from either natural gas or petroleum (resources the U.S. tends to own or control).

Discuss!

[GD]

That is Methane Hydrates, this is the discussion thread.

[peaky]

Yea - me on 85%

Lack on knowledge on the Federal Reserve and the nature of Carmine Also, biff's comments on hydrates. Not sure about that one

And Totally, you can read an eye-opening investigation into sun exposure/sunscream here http://www.theecologist.org/archive_det ... ent_id=442. You have to go through a free sign-up but it's quick, simple and well worth the small effort.

And a search on the US military's acknowledgement that Japan would have surrendered without the bomb is not too hard to find out the net . Try a search of www.medialens.org or a Google, failing that.

Remember that most of the time, truth is stranger than fiction.

[Totally_Baffled]

And a search on the US military's acknowledgement that Japan would have surrendered without the bomb is not too hard to find out the net . Try a search of www.medialens.org or a Google, failing that.

Remember that most of the time, truth is stranger than fiction.

Oh I am aware of the argument regarding , should the US of invaded versus nuking the buggers into submission.

But this test suggested that Japan had already surrendered, in which case there would of been no need to invade OR nuke.

Thats an entirely different argument altogether!

[EmptyBee]

As I understand it the Japanese had been trying to surrender for a while, only not unconditionally - they still wanted to keep the emperor etc. The idea that the bombs saved American lives by avoiding an invasion is the enduring propaganda myth.

[bigjim]

I got 85 too. So I'm not gullible and I'm cynical too

[Joe]

If you look up gullible in the dictionary there's a picture of me. Apparently.