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Dion · 05-22-2008, 02:07 AM

In this simple, anonymous test, you can assess your own Gullibility Factor (GF) score. Simply answer TRUE or FALSE to the following questions, click SUBMIT, and your score will be instantly calculated and displayed along with an explanation and the correct answers.

Your GF score will tell you whether you're a free-thinking individual, or a total mind slave. Please answer all questions, or your score will be artificially low.

http://www.naturalnews.com/gullibility.html

Dion · 05-22-2008, 02:11 AM

Your GF score is 52.

Sheeple

Your score indicates you are relatively easy to manipulate and don't know much about how the real world operates (even though you think you do). But you're in good company: a full 30% of the people in the U.S. are also sheeple. You tend to think life is unfair and doesn't give you an opportunity to shine as an individual, yet you consistently follow the crowd and do what they do. During the dot-com boom, if you were over the age of 25, you were probably invested in technology stocks (and lost a wad of money doing it, too). You believe doctors, drug company ads, and the FDA. You think authority figures should be listened to and believed. Interestingly, you tend to be happier than most people, but that's largely because ignorance is bliss.

OilersBaby · 05-22-2008, 02:20 AM

Your GF score is 79.

(Out of a range of 0 - 100, where 0 = mind slave, and 100 = free thinker.)

Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more areas (music, art, software development, inventing, etc.)

If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one. Your architects: You have cast off reality distortions taught to you by your parents, schooling, corporate advertising and government propaganda. You create your own beliefs based on what serves you best, without much regard for what the rest of the crowd is doing. You are guided by your own internal code of ethics (which may or may not agree with politically-correct ethical codes) rather than any pre-set system of ethics (such as from any one religion).

Weiser Wonder · 05-22-2008, 02:27 AM

Free Thinker

Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more areas (music, art, software development, inventing, etc.)

Hmmmm...not a big fan of the test but don't want to ruin it for others so I won't post criticism just yet.

Hack&Lube · 05-22-2008, 02:36 AM

Your GF score is 88.

You have cast off reality distortions taught to you by your parents, schooling, corporate advertising and government propaganda. You create your own beliefs based on what serves you best, without much regard for what the rest of the crowd is doing. You are guided by your own internal code of ethics (which may or may not agree with politically-correct ethical codes) rather than any pre-set system of ethics (such as from any one religion).

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Time to use that free thinking mind and my code of ethics says this site is full of it's own bulls*** as well. Many of the ones I got wrong are highly debatable and cannot be defined as absolute truths as promoted on this site. Their solutions/explanations are highly biased and unfounded.

The crap on this test that I cannot totally buy (and thus, my lack of a perfect score because I disagree with them, these are not absolute true/false answers and the answers they provide are dubious and based on half-truths):

In 1945, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on civilian populations in Japan in order to force Japan's surrender and "save a million lives."
Most common diseases (cancer, heart disease, diabetes) are caused by bad genes and bad luck.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a genuine brain chemistry disorder that must be treated with drugs to help children.

(I'll post to explain later when more people have had a chance to do the test)

Dion · 05-22-2008, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

Hmmmm...not a big fan of the test but don't want to ruin it for others so I won't post criticism just yet.

Some of thier answers seemed wacked to me. To a point where i don't have much faith in the people who made this

Hack&Lube · 05-22-2008, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Dion

Some of thier answers seemed wacked to me. To a point where i don't have much faith in the people who made this

Congratulations on using your free thinking brain to outthink the "freethinking test"

SteveToms · 05-22-2008, 02:58 AM

Your GF score is 85.

Free Thinker

Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more areas (music, art, software development, inventing, etc.) If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one.

alan21 · 05-22-2008, 04:04 AM

I didn't know how accurate this was because I had a bit of a problem with the very first one about milk and weight loss. My HMKN 213 prof. has done studies and actually has a published paper associating the consumption of dairy products and weight gain.

http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/me...urcetype=HWCIT

@theCBE · 05-22-2008, 04:36 AM

Score of 61... Don't agree with a lot of the answers. Especially when they quote their own website as the authority to back them up.

Devils'Advocate · 05-22-2008, 04:38 AM

88%

Some these were common knowledge, but some of it is malarky... citing someone elses opinion and stating that it is fact doesn't work for me.

I think if you take his "responses" as fact, then you are truly gullible.

For example, dropping the nuclear bombs on Japan was far more complicated than what he has laid out as fact. Reading about it many years later and not living at that time, I can say that it was the wrong thing to do... but it wasn't as cut and dry as he has made it out to be.

And gas hydrates are *NOT* a ready solution. There is still much, much research going on regarding how to harness this power. And that response is just a wee bit to "conspiracy theorist" to me.

Flames89 · 05-22-2008, 06:27 AM

Yep, I was 67. But again, had some issues:

SPOILERS!

1. Silver Fillings. Ok, maybe it is my naivete, but I literally thought they meant silver fillings (Ag). I thought, hey, I am sure silver is safe, it is completely antimicrobial.

2. Inflation. Is this not actually an outcome from a strong economy? I thought inflation arose from two scenarios.
- The economy is ripping along, and is healthy, but costs are rising as it is overheated = Alberta. Politicians need to slow it down. This is healthy.
- The economy is suckin balls, so the Fed drops interest rates to get people/biz's to spend more, this artificially starts the engine, things are cheap, people are buying, costs rising, dollar is less, more exports, more... so Fed did make inflation, but it is required. Really don't understand this Fed "hidden tax" agenda. ... but maybe I am not a free thinker ...

3. Sodium nitrite ... hunh. Scary. (serious)

4. Can someone go over this hydrates for me? I thought those we just frozen natural gas/petroleum reserves that were merely more expensive than tar sands/technically very challenging to remove.

5. Nuclear bomb. Yes, very weak explanation.

6. Cancer. Good to know there is a cure for cancer. That is a really safe opinion to flaunt as fact.

7. ADHD. Is this site run by scientologists? "The ADHD "disease" was invented to sell drugs and boost the power of the highly corrupt psychiatric community" Wow. Hey, I am with everyone else and think we SERIOUSLY overprescribe our children (and ourselves), but that is a bit much.

worth · 05-22-2008, 07:32 AM

Your GF score is 94.

Dan02 · 05-22-2008, 07:44 AM

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Your GF score is 100.

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(Out of a range of 0 - 100, where 0 = mind slave, and 100 = free thinker.)
Mind slave Free thinker0(You)100Free Thinker

Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more areas (music, art, software development, inventing, etc.)

If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one. Your architects: You have cast off reality distortions taught to you by your parents, schooling, corporate advertising and government propaganda. You create your own beliefs based on what serves you best, without much regard for what the rest of the crowd is doing. You are guided by your own internal code of ethics (which may or may not agree with politically-correct ethical codes) rather than any pre-set system of ethics (such as from any one religion).

Why? because i've never seen a quiz with a agenda like the one on this site. Quite possibly the stupidest quiz i have taken online. Do i believe in half the answers i actually gave them? not in your life but it became blatantly obvious after 5 questions what they were going for. Yes, they're right, everything is a government conspiracy.

While we're at it Kevin Trudeau has a book to sell you.http://www.naturalcures.com/ (and while there may actually be some merit behind some of the stuff in his book, most of it is just phooey and some of the suggestions downright stupid.)

Kool Keef · 05-22-2008, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Dan02

Why? because i've never seen a quiz with a agenda like the one on this site. Quite possibly the stupidest quiz i have taken online. Do i believe in half the answers i actually gave them? not in your life but it became blatantly obvious after 5 questions what they were going for. Yes, they're right, everything is a government conspiracy.

Very true, after scanning a few of the questions, I got bored and marked false for every question.

Got a score of 85.

worth · 05-22-2008, 08:07 AM

Do you guys want to list examples where the test is wrong?

photon · 05-22-2008, 08:11 AM

Stupidest quiz ever. You can get 100 if you just went against what most people would think, regardless of if what that was was right or not.

This is very telling, one of the questions:

Anything that hasn't been scientifically proven isn't true.

Tells you exactly what their mindset is. Magical thinking strikes again.

But hey, better to believe anything as long as it is not what the man wants you to think than it is to be "gullible". Oh the irony.

Textcritic · 05-22-2008, 08:14 AM

This test is bunk. There are a huge number of questions that are far to general and ambiguous to merely answer "true" and "false" correctly. for instance, buying a home remains a relatively good financial investment, at least in the short term, and especially if one lives in his own home, yet only a fool would believe that prices will always continue to rise. In another example, there are literally hundreds of different kinds of cancer. Many have readily available cures, and there are many that are still prevalent killers. Also, on the question about whether all food consumed in moderation is a bit of a red herring as well. How does one define "moderation", and what do we consider "food"? Obviously, the question is far too generic to provide an accurate response.

Matata · 05-22-2008, 08:21 AM

Conspiracy nutters.

All the clean hydrogen we need to power the world is already contained in crystals at the bottom of the ocean called gas hydrates.

Lets not mention that this stuff can be extremely difficult and dangerous to harvest. There is practically zero infrastructure for using hydrogen as a primary fuel source, we don't know how harvesting this stuff en masse will effect the undersea eco-system and the tiny fact that a hydrogen powered car is basically a high pressure bomb on wheels.

Just because you can justify your answer and it makes you feel good about yourself, don't mean its right.

Flashpoint · 05-22-2008, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Dion

In this simple, anonymous test, you can assess your own Gullibility Factor (GF) score. Simply answer TRUE or FALSE to the following questions, click SUBMIT, and your score will be instantly calculated and displayed along with an explanation and the correct answers.

Your GF score will tell you whether you're a free-thinking individual, or a total mind slave. Please answer all questions, or your score will be artificially low.

http://www.naturalnews.com/gullibility.html

I don't believe you.

I think this link will just take me to a page that calls me gullible.

So I'm not clicking NOTHING!