Merle ([info]merle_) wrote,
@ 2008-04-27 10:00:00
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Current mood:illuminating
Current music:Aerosmith, "Dude Looks Like a Lady"

a strange quiz algorithm
Many quizzes ask you for your gender, age, household income, SSN, and all sorts of personal things. For scientific studies I would provide some of that information, but for "get a happy image for your journal so other kids can see how cool you are" quizzes, I pick randomly. The gender answer is used by a most of them to filter out the list of possible outcomes (especially if the outcomes are gendered), which is why the "What Tarot Card Are You?" quiz outcome surprised me (I chose male):

You are The High Priestess
Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education
The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluctuation, particularly when it comes to your moods.



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[info]en_ki
2008-04-27 06:08 pm UTC (link)
567-68-0515

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[info]merle_
2008-04-27 06:32 pm UTC (link)
Now, if you can do Elvis, I'll be impr.. *googles* never mind.

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[info]eryn_
2008-04-27 08:11 pm UTC (link)
Because you suggested it, and because a lot of the feminine options are for pussies, I too chose "male" for the first question's answer.

I got The Hanged Man.
Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.

With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of loss from a situation, rather than gain.

The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.

The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.

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[info]merle_
2008-04-28 01:48 am UTC (link)
Self-sacrifice and sacrifice? Soccer, that bites.

Unless they meant the Hanged Man, one of the Ten Who Were Taken from the Black Company books. He was a powerful sorcerer. Betrayed and killed early on, but...

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[info]siderea
2008-04-28 03:01 am UTC (link)
Hah. :D

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