This is almost a pit. Maybe it’s a way to encourage millennials and generation Z’s that reading and being knowledgeable is cool. But they put in ridiculously easy multiple choice questions and challenge people to ace it, assuring them that doing so puts them in the top-1% or something.
The latest is one asking for the capitals (de facto or seat of government?) of 29 countries. So to have an IQ of 149 one only has to spend an afternoon with a map of the world (an old map at that.) They didn’t even ask tough ones like Bangui, or Antananarivo, or any capital of the former Soviet states.
The point of 99.9% of those “quizzes” is to get you to click through multiple pages of ads. They are not trying to do anything other than sell advertising. I have even seen quizzes that will mark you correct regardless of your answer.
I found out just yesterday that I am apparently already an expert nurse.
The only ones that I have ever “failed” involve TV shows, movies and music post-2000. I am a full-blown retard when it comes to those and not even Facebook quizzes can deny that simple fact even though I tend to get most questions right just because the answer choices are even dumber than I am.
I like the way that many of them give you the answer in the form of a picture right above the choices. If only all of life was that easy…
That said, I love clickbait in general and almost always go for it. Why yes, I do want to see what 70’s sitcom star has aged shockingly badly even though I know that the person in the ad won’t be included in the list at all.
“I just got 9/10 on this quiz and I’m a genius” posts. (No, dear. You’re actually a moron for i) not getting 10/10 on such an absurdly easy quiz and ii) posting about it.)
Not sure if it was Facebook but I did take a similarly-styled quiz that asked me to name English counties by shape and I only got a little above random chance because I’m not English and the boundaries are more fluid/less meaningful than US States.
Earlier this year I had some serious vision problems. At one point while I was awaiting surgery, I took this clickbait vision test on Facebook and I was assured that " I had the superior vision of a pilot".
Are the quizzes now set up where they actually get that info? In the past, they always ended with asking me for my Facebook info, which I would refuse to give them. Often, this was after they showed the score, so I would just copy and paste.
Granted, these weren’t quizzes where you were trying to get 100%, which are pretty much always guaranteed to ace and no fun. They were the ones that tell you who you are most like. And the fun in them comes in seeing if you can figure out how the algorithm works.
In order to satisfy myself that the quizzes were as easy as I suspected I took a few, always by right-clicking it and starting in private window, never had a problem taking any. One thing to note also, a lot of them don’t even keep score accurately, choose answers at random and it’ll give you 100%
What good is that? The duming down of America continues.
“Don’t worry, scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. Then she took a FB quiz - She’s a pilot now.”
