Friday, April 20, 2007

Friday tests

No instantaneous results for these tests, which are actually real studies about cognition and perecption and so on. Kind of interesting and fun, so go take a couple of them if you're bored.

Via Lindsay at Majikthise. She also has a link to the Gender Genie, which purports to determine your gender based on a writing sample. I think it's kind of bogus, but your mileage may vary.

2 comments:

Josh said...

I followed this link backwards. You actually do get instantaneous results from http://vacognition.wjh.harvard.edu/English
and
http://vacognition.wjh.harvard.edu/VSTMTime
The latter one will give you an estimate of how many objects you can hold in visual memory at one time (not many, it turns out).

alphabitch said...

cool -- thanks Josh! I'm not sure I want to look at the results for the memory thing. I've been freaking out lately as my ability to remember things declines. Within normal limits, I'm assured by trained professionals, but still, it's freaky.