Can you distinguish between fake smiles and real ones? I was awful; I only got 13/20, which is barely better than random.

¶ 1454 Posted at 03.04 PM ⇒ No Comments ( science! | tests )

How good are you at guessing? I got 5 clearly right, 2 clearly wrong, and 3 just barely wrong. I am among the 99% of people who are over-confident. Ironically or appropriately, depending on how you look at it, I read the comment about over-confidence and was confident that I was not over-confident.

¶ 1615 Posted at 05.35 PM ⇒ No Comments ( tests )

Although some of it can be credited to/blamed on Uma. What about you?

¶ 1676 Posted at 11.03 AM ⇒ No Comments ( me | tests )

First, name all the United States. Eliminate the ones you've lived in for a while, like more than a year. Then try to name as many cities, towns, villages, townships, etc. that you can in each state. It doesn't matter how big or small they are; if it's on a map (and incorporated), it counts. I noticed a wide variation in the number I came up with for each state. Some of the ones I could come up with little for were obvious, others it was appalling. I was pretty impressed by the number I knew in our largest (by population) state; maybe it's because of my industry. Here's a freebie: Springfield.

¶ 1686 Posted at 12.19 PM ⇒ No Comments ( tests | geography )