Lazarus Long Test

[selenite0]

Competent You scored 30!

Lazarus would be proud of you. Try to live a long time.

Link: The Lazarus Long Test written by selenite on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long include a list of what every human being should be able to do. I'd heard of folks using that to measure their "Lazarus Long Quotient" and decided there should be a test for it. Enjoy.

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I scored a 21 (Child). My complete incompentence at math and bookeeping are what probably brought my score down. :(

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Did you get Child (Podkayne) or Learner (Rod in Tunnel in the Sky)? 15 to 28 should get the Learner result.

(Yes, surprise, you volunteered to be a beta tester. Thanks for helping)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Got the Child with the Podkayne cover. (which made it all the more humiliating. I hated that book!)

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I scored 28%. I have to argue with some of these (yes, I know they are from the book): slaughter a hog? Why? How about speak more than one language, living in more than one country, having x number of years of education, knowing about x number of different sciences, etc?

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Heinlein grew up on a Missouri farm. Slaughtering hogs probably seemed much more useful than additional languages there.

As for years of education, I wouldn't give that much weight. I've seen plenty of people rack up years and papers while staying useless.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

I may be biased, but I think being bilingual and/or living abroad are pretty important.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I suspect from Heinlein / Lazarus Long's POV (and the question of how much they overlapped is a can of worms I am *not* opening), the question boiled down to "how much use would you be on a pioneering colony mission?"

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

19 here. Learner. "You might want to take some classes--or get out of school and deal with the real world some more. " Well, sneer sneer. Depends on what your real world includes, doesn't it? Not many dead pigs or invasions in mine. (And who'd going to answer "I've done it for real" for #21?)

[selenite.livejournal.com]

There's a special result category just for people who give that answer.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Learner. You scored 23!
Not bad, but you know where you need to improve. You might want to take some classes--or get out of school and deal with the real world some more.

Yeah, well. About what I expected.

beta test

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

Tunnel in the Sky for me, as well with a score of 26

I suppose it's not entirely inaccurate, though I'm suprised that I'm still bottom half, given that surely not everyone has my fight/combat experience.

Re: beta test

[selenite.livejournal.com]

That's not a percentage. Max score a live person can have is 42. So you are in the top half.

Re: beta test

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

So there were three possible results: child, learner, competent?

Maybe more potential options would take some of the sting out? My opinion only, of course. I wouldn't know where to start in building such a quiz, so I really don't get to kibbitz onthose who do. 8-)

Re: beta test

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Five--"Hero" for anyone who's already died gallantly, and "Fool" for anyone getting a negative score. But I'm not expecting many of those. So there's three common results.

I'm not sure if I should add more categories or lower the cut-off levels. This is my first quiz, so there's some trial and error in it.

So I'm progressing

[bkseiver.livejournal.com]

Learner
You scored 28!
Not bad, but you know where you need to improve. You might want to take some classes--or get out of school and deal with the real world some more.




My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on variable 1

The things I have done were perhaps the most obscure, such as setting a bone, comforting the dying, etc.

Re: So I'm progressing

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I got a 29. I've never actually set a bone, although I have comforted the dying. Harped for the dying, which is sad yet cool in a Celtic kinda way.

Re: So I'm progressing

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

28, which when I took it told me I scored higher than 0%...

I counted steering a large riverboat for a few minutes as piloting, as I have also driven a motorboat.

[dartpoly.livejournal.com]

33 here.

of course, growing up on a hog farm facilitated "slaughter a hog" and "pitch manure", as well as "build a wall".

couldn't really plan an invasion, except in a rudimentary fashion in a game... and dunno a thing about piloting a ship (darn Heinlein's Navy background), but that's partly because i grew up in a landlocked state.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

heh. cute. 28 here - Learner. Actually I suspect I got too much credit for math and programming - not that I exaggerated, but I wouldn't be all that useful on a pioneering mission. Unless there was a "built a microprocessor chip from scratch" question, which I would not score on ;<).

I wondered how the last question was scored :<), but I see you commented slightly.

Whew!

[btripp.livejournal.com]

I got 34 ... Competent!


(http://www.btripp.com)

Re: Whew!

[theturbonerd.livejournal.com]

I like the test. Good job.

Of course I may have that opinion because:
a) I'm a huge Heinlein fan
b) TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE is one of my favorite books of all time.
c) I love aphorisms, and thus love THE NOTEBOOKS
d) I scored 31.

Cheers!

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

"You scored higher than 83% on variable one."

No kidding! The kid's a poo-factory.

I loved "that's the idea," by the way. Brilliant!

Depending on how stringently I definined the answers (frex, I use algebra all the time in Real Life. Algebra is Your Friend!) I either got "learner" or "Laz Long would be proud." I vote the former, since, if put both my parents together, they get 42 out of 42. I'm not in their league (yet!)