in any event, magazine quizzes are silly. (cf. COSMO.) On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: >> raghu wrote: >>> After taking the linked quiz on "How Money Addled Are You?" I am not >>> so sure this article is any good. >>> http://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-quiz-2012-7/ >> >> is this sour grapes after the test revealed you as an egocentric jerk? ;-) >> >> BTW, my impression is that the folks who wrote the quiz are not the >> ones who did the research on this question. > > > I scored 12 out of 30 on tht quiz. Supposedly that score makes me > empathetic when it is convenient to me. That scares me. I was rather > hoping that that I am completely unempathetic to the suffering of > large for-profit corporations. > > Btw the article claims that "OUR SCORING SYSTEM WAS CREATED IN > CONSULTATION WITH BERKELEY'S PAUL PIFF..", though it also adds a > disclaimer. > > Piff is the researcher who is prominently profiled in the article. > -raghu. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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