Misc

Ugh, I feel really terrible today. It's beyond the normal hay fever I've been suffering the last month. Must be a cold. Iyadda.

Today's school lunch was whale meat.

Yes, you read that right, whale. Usually I'm really open to new foods, and I did eat it. But the whole time I was eating it I couldn't stop thinking "that poor whale," or "at least we probably only killed one for the whole school," etc. I have no comment as to whether it's tasty or not because I don't think it's right to base judgment off school lunch food.

Tomorrow is the Graduation Ceremony. Or as Yosenex says "the funeral." Lot's of crying and dark clouds over people's heads. I was invited to my first enkai today! Enkai's are the staff parties that Japan is famous for. Where people get drunk and tell you their life story, but then you're just supposed to forget it happened the next work day. I hope it's fun.

Picture post next time.

Visual Test Results

Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin, first popularized the notion of measurable intelligence in the late 1800s. Charles Spearman later discovered that all mental abilities tend to correlate together when statistically analyzed. He called this G. Modern researchers tend to agree that there are two kinds of intelligence, crystallized intelligence (learned knowledge) and fluid intelligence (abstract processing ability). Most non-verbal intelligence tests measure the latter. Some research suggests that fluid intelligence may correlate best to G.

Your overall percentile is 87% which means you scored higher than 87% of the people who have taken this test. The internet population tends to be more intelligent so your percentile might be higher if the test taking sample was perfectly random. Keep in mind, taking this test more than once will render your percentile score inaccurate because the percentile score assumes these questions were fresh to the test taker.

The point of this test is to challenge you and show you how you compare to other test takers on a set of novel questions. Consequently, I need to keep the answers secret to protect the integrity of the test.

Take the test here:

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