# Dead or nearly dead tropes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-or-nearly-dead-tropes/1014797 "2025-02-25T23:14:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 354
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-or-nearly-dead-tropes/1014797/354 "2025-05-16T20:09:06Z")
When I was a freshman in college we took an aptitude test like that - everyone called it “the carrot test” because one of the questions was “Do you like carrots raw or cooked?” But we didn’t get the results back automatically - you had to make an appointment for a session with a counseler to discuss the results, which I didn’t get around to doing until I was a senior (my best fit career was “linguist,” but “engineer” was not excluded, fortunately). On “Facts of Life” they did the IQ test version… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-or-nearly-dead-tropes/1014797)._