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Not the game, although i bought it.

http://www.PickThePerp.com
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PicassoCT wrote:Not the game, although i bought it.

http://www.PickThePerp.com
That is so wrong on so many levels. :regret:
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person has something to prove. picks mostly white perps.. OH LOOK PEOPLE ARE RACIST... trollface
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it is actually much more sophisticated.
your iphone and facebook know your prejudice already (against blacks, whites, women, men, ... whatever it be), and therefore does this site. it is not a test, but rather a "black on white" prove to yourself that you are.
in the case of mindless people that say something like smoth that post the outcome somewhere, it also proves to everyone else.

the same thing goes for the aspie chart thing btw.
did it ever occur to you, that when you post your results online, ....
then again, you are using facebook already anyway, so no big deal anymore, i guess.

.. can i prove all this? no
is it feasible? it is easy to come up with this idea, and technically easy to do -> has been done, is being done
am i paranoid? maybe, but does it hurt me in any way? no
would it hurt me if i was not paranoid, but the paranoid way of seeing it was the reality? yes

get real!
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Im freaken psychic!!
I got 45% sucess after 50 tries XD
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if you throw a coin long enough, somebody will steal it..

i dunno, hoijui, not beeing in facebook, not using instant messagers and all that stuff that distracts me from spring trolling
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I got a zero percent. This test is bullshit. I bet they took all of those people's pictures when they were having a bad day or didn't want to take a picture, so they all took terrible pictures in which they looked unhappy and sloppy.
hoijui wrote:it is actually much more sophisticated.
your iphone and facebook know your prejudice already (against blacks, whites, women, men, ... whatever it be), and therefore does this site. it is not a test, but rather a "black on white" prove to yourself that you are.
in the case of mindless people that say something like smoth that post the outcome somewhere, it also proves to everyone else.
Hm? I don't understand the question you are asking.
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Delivery of controlled substances is always white boys.

Also exposure of sexual organs is very easy almost as easy as heroin posession.
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in the case of mindless people that say something like smoth that post the outcome somewhere, it also proves to everyone else.
I'll report you later for the personal attack

Actually I didn't take the test because I saw it as datamining witha questionable motivation and closed the link replying with a joke comment while asserting that it was questionable.

It's ok though if you want to paint me in a negative light oh wait it isn't. Like I said that was an uncalled for personal attack the result which is that I took great personal offense.
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Machete234 wrote:Delivery of controlled substances is always white boys.

Also exposure of sexual organs is very easy almost as easy as heroin posession.
Yeah first page I got was substance abuse with eminem looking douches and angry looking black men, I was like "ohh you want me to pick the angry looking guys" good thing I knew drugdealers when I was younger or I wouldn't have saw through it
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Panda wrote:I bet they took all of those people's pictures when they were having a bad day or didn't want to take a picture, so they all took terrible pictures in which they looked unhappy and sloppy.
Yes, being arrested makes it a bad day for most people, hence unhappy faces.

Those appearing here have not been convicted of the arrest charge and are presumed innocent.
WTF?
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Now that I am home!
hoijui wrote:your iphone and facebook know your prejudice already (against blacks, whites, women, men, ... whatever it be), and therefore does this site.
Oh really I gotta hear this! Do tell.
hoijui wrote:it is not a test, but rather a "black on white" prove to yourself that you are.
is it? what if it was designed to make you feel racist when you are not. I found the images to depict angry black men and on the next page I got a few smiling black women. did they choose pictures of predominantly angry black men or did I get the bad luck of the draw? It is entirely possible that this is a social psychology experiment to see how much people associate hostility with crime as there may be more samples of angry white males as well.

However the only way to win the game is to not play it and I didn't
hoijui wrote:in the case of mindless people that say something like smoth that post the outcome somewhere, it also proves to everyone else.
I didn't post an outcome nor does someone playing on the site make them mindless. You really need to reword this part or set your level of human contempt a little lower.
hoijui wrote:the same thing goes for the aspie chart thing btw.
did it ever occur to you, that when you post your results online, ....
the results that show me as a fairly normal person? IT isn't like that test was valid. Honestly I think it would not pass as a screener for aspergers.
hoijui wrote:then again, you are using facebook already anyway, so no big deal anymore, i guess.
Oh and what does facebook have on me? I like laberynth, I work as a software developer, I have an age, I have friends and family and I like certain games, music and movies. All details which I post intelligently to facebook in order to feed it's datamining information with the very data I want it to have.
hoijui wrote:am i paranoid? maybe, but does it hurt me in any way? no
It does when you call others as mindless because they play on an internet site.
hoijui wrote:would it hurt me if i was not paranoid, but the paranoid way of seeing it was the reality? yes
It wouldn't hurt you unless you were stupid enough to post all your relevant data like oh your place of work etc. Then again, how do you know the spring forum isn't tracking the location you are posting from etc.. just saying you can be paranoid about all sorts of things. I have friends that refuse to have "gps" phones. That's nice but don't be so full of yourself to think that your data is important or you hold any value above any other sheeple or cattle class moron. You are not special, you are not unique no one cares about you beyond trying to target commercial services at you.
hoijui wrote:get real!
you first.
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smoth wrote:I have friends that refuse to have "gps" phones.
Do they have cell phones without GPS?
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apparently really old ones. At least that is what my friend told me. Honestly I could care less so I never looked into it. whatever makes them happy you know?
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smoth wrote:whatever makes them happy you know?
Happy but idiot. Because cell phone ya know? Ask them what they think the "cell" in cell phone mean.
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lol, I don't bother. I have better things to do like come here and try to make game about cartoon robots.
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I don't get it. What's the point of this thing?
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smoth, you did not say "i took the test, multiple times", but what you wrote strongly suggested that.

the thing with the aspie chart works like this:
  • create test for serial killer detection (or whatever else people would less likely take a test for)
  • call it aspie test
  • apply arbitrary weights to the questions
of course you would have spotted that right away, but you wouldn't.

i wonder what makes you think i believe i am more special then you, or why i would think any info about me is more important then info about you. i don't.
it appears like you are angry at me cause i am not as mindless as you about my data. which means you believe i should not do anything better then you do it. it's like in that movie/book, where people too good at something (skill wise) would have had to use skill diminishing aparati. just that in the present case, you would even be totally free to do likewise, as you do not lack any skill required for it, in the classical sense.

about cell phones:
of course it is technically possible to locate any cellphone with if it is in range of multiple antennas, but without GPS it is mostly illegal, and not possible/not done automatically Apple or Google. it is not a choice between total control and intractability.
lets assume, you have a smart-phone, and i have a simple cell-phone now (no GPS). in 10 years from now, everyone can know where you were every minute of today (if you keep it turned on). while with me, that will not be possible.
there is a difference, and cause you think it does not matter, does not make them idiots, but rather you for not seeing it.
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hoijui wrote:the thing with the aspie chart works like this:
  • create test for serial killer detection (or whatever else people would less likely take a test for)
  • call it aspie test
  • apply arbitrary weights to the questions
of course you would have spotted that right away, but you wouldn't
Hoijui, people use tests like the aspie chart all the time for entertainment purposes. Austism spectrum disorders are very popular right now for some reason, the same way ADHD is in the school system and people are paying a lot of attention to them. There are billboards and advertisements where I live saying that there is a need for people to help other people with this disorder, and suddenly more people are getting diagnosed with it than ever even though it was probably around before people even knew or cared about it. When this occurs you tend to get a lot of tests like this put out there, just because people think that they're fun to take even if the test doesn't really tell you anything about whether or not you may have one of these diagnoses.

These internet tests are being used for the same reason why tests in magazines are used, to entertain, because, unlike a real psychological evaluations, they are not extensive, accurate, or detailed enough to reliably tell you pertinent about the person taking it. I went to a serious conference at my university about these disorders, and it's true, the media is taking advantage of people's interest in these psychological disorder and using it for entertainment.

If it were really that important of a test, most people (Even many psychologists who have spent their lives studying this kind of thing.) would think that it would not be available to the general public on the internet and would, instead, be administered only by professionals. Their thinking would most likely be correct and, you can't always worry about things like that or you'll drive yourself and a lot of people around you bonkers. Where does a person's ability to enjoy life or even do other things that they need to do with their time go when they are often worried about such things? A random person taking this test would most likely be a law abiding citizen who is interested in whatever is going on in their own life and not whether or not this test is a serial killer detection test. Therefore, they would not think of whether or not it is. That does not really make them mindless, it just means that they haven't really been exposed to those kinds of ideas, are unfamiliar with them, and it didn't come to mind when they decided to take the test.
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These tests are nice. I like taking them when they show up on a computer with no adblocker, this one is best:
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(Who are your relatives? Test now.)
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