# Your Romulan? I never would have guessed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376 "2003-05-06T13:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/21 "2003-05-06T19:35:26Z")
7 right - guess I’m not bright enought to be a racist. ---
**Author:** ![Vixenation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@Vixenation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vixenation)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/22 "2003-05-06T20:21:46Z")
1. Some of these people went both ways though, for example, the woman with light skin who had Anglo features who was biracial and chose to call herself black, or the woman with stark white skin and blue eyes who was Hispanic. It was interesting, but some of the people who called themselves a certain race just did not fit into our preconceptions of what that race looks like. It’s not really an issue of “I wasn’t good enough to get it right”. ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/23 "2003-05-06T20:36:04Z")
3 right. It was really tough for me. Even looking at the bigger pictures. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/24 "2003-05-06T21:46:15Z")
I got 12, but only because I KNEW that the whole point of this exercise was to “prove” that you can’t tell anything by looking. That is, I did well by putting people in the least likely categories. (“This person doesn’t look black at all, so he/she MUST be black!”) Truth to tell, if I’d gone by my first impressions, I’d have flunked. Whenever a test is put together by people with an agenda, it’s easy to ace it, once you’ve figured out what their agenda is. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/25 "2003-05-06T22:51:44Z")
Only six. Could they have chosen a more ambiguous bunch of people? I like the Palestinian guy (classified as “white”, by the way) who identified himself as “human”. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/26 "2003-05-06T23:15:22Z")
I got seven right, and not necessarily the ones about which I was more confident. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/27 "2003-05-06T23:17:59Z")
I got 9. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/28 "2003-05-06T23:25:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vix \* > \*\*I got seven right, and not necessarily the ones about which I was more confident. \*\* Same here. And that one white woman is _scary_ when you bring up the larger picture. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/29 "2003-05-06T23:33:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*And the first person who points out I put “your’ instead of 'you’re” in the title is gonna get _such_ a pinch! \*\* But can Romulans do the Vulcan Nerve Pinch? I got 5 right. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/30 "2003-05-06T23:47:36Z")
6 right the first time… then I realized that you could enlarge the pictures by clicking on them, and I did it over again. 7 the second time; I suspect because of the scary looking white woman! ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/31 "2003-05-07T01:37:59Z")
I got 11 right, by using \*\* astorian’s \*\* method of placing people in groups that they looked like they didn’t belong too. ---
**Author:** ![Goodbeem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/958977/32.png) [@Goodbeem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goodbeem)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/32 "2003-05-07T01:58:10Z")
11 right (but I did it before, a few days ago, I think I scored less then, but don’t know exactly) [slight hijack] > [@](#): > > _originally posted by Biggirl_ > And I was surprised to see Hispanic/Latino as a racial catagory. Me too, but it seems to be US policy (the racial categories are listed on the site). Participants in experiments at my university have to fill in an ethnic thingy sheet (which surprised me in the first place) and Hispanic/Latino is mentioned there too (which was the second surprise). [/slight hijack] ---
**Author:** ![snac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@snac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snac)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/33 "2003-05-07T02:30:05Z")
Three correct. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376/34 "2003-05-07T13:24:01Z")
I got six. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-romulan-i-never-would-have-guessed/173376.md?page=1)