Thanks, Amanda, for finding me... so to speak.
Here was a set of answers that got me David Brin:
1. War and conquest
2. Whatever is big, fast, and/or powerful
3. Patriotism is foolish... but I suppose I'm rather parochial.
4. I'll shit on you like you've never been shit on before.
5. I just avoid people as much as possible.
6. When you get onto a subject that I care about, I'll surprise you
7. Sort of, but it's as much commercial as artistic.
8. Pat.
9. It is morally wrong to silence yourself just so somebody else can talk.
10. I'm all about questions, not answers.
11. Hell, it's practically brimming full!<<
How interesting.
In fact, a majority of these answers are bizarre or even diametrically opposite to anything having to do with me.
1,2,4,5, and 8 have no bearing on truth in any way.
3(c) (Patriotism is foolish... but I suppose I'm rather parochial.) doesn't even make sense as an answer, no matter who gives it. If I'm right about what the designer MEANT, it might be my answer, or internationalist... or 'good old USA' depending on context. Certainly the Postman could be looked at as patriotic, but only in the sense that restoring the USA would serve the long term interests of civilization.
The answer for 6 conflicts with their answer for 4... and is just as inaccurate. Whether you like my opinions or not, it's clear that I'm an extrovert.
Number 9 is a matter of opinion. It is not the answer I would give about myself, but I admit that I am rather forward in bouncing all over with enthusiastic opinions. I constantly check to make sure I'm not suppressing others, and feel genuinely interested in others' ideas... but I know I fail in that effort often. So if the designers of this test wanted to put me in category 9(a) it is at least based on a general set of behaviors that occur in real life.
That leaves 7, 10, and 11.
These are the only answers that I would have written about myself.
Ah... but before I get all lathered up, let's try variation. I changed all the insultingly stupid answers in 4 through 9... and even changed 3 to internationalist... and still got David Brin!
It turns out the only 3 questions that need these answers in order to get me are #1,2 and 11
so I take back what I said about designer-tendentiousness. It's just silly.
I'd be interested in how Vernor, Greg Bear, Stan Robinson etc score. All told, I consider this thing to be tendentious and stupid. The inherent biases make it pretty easy to dial in on the people who wrote it.
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