POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : amusing : Re: amusing Server Time
6 Sep 2024 23:19:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: amusing  
From: Alain
Date: 20 Sep 2008 18:32:14
Message: <48d579ee$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Charter nous illumina en ce 2008-09-20 17:54 -->
> andrel wrote:
>> On 20-Sep-08 7:49, Jim Charter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I don't really follow off topic too much so don't know if htis had 
>>> been posted, but I found it amusing.  Scored 8.
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/5tkxcc
>>
>>
>> - Isn't this not also a monitor test?
> 
> I don't quite follow your logic there but maybe.  Apparently the test is 
> seeking some threshold level of gradation for perception. Or maybe just 
> color blindness.  I'm guessing that mental inconsistencies become a 
> factor before monitor inconsistencies but what do I know?  Notice that 
> you are asked to make 21 discriminations, the same as we do in the irtc 
> and tc-rtc.
> 
> 
>> - I scored 4. is that usual for my age? i.e. can I get a histogram of 
>> my age group?
> 
> Easy to guess this is collecting data for some purpose and the age 
> groups/gender are part of it.  Over several tries my score actually 
> ranged from 0 to 20.  Doing nothing I got scores ranging from 900's to 
> 1100's
4 is a very good score, 0 is perfect, 1100 is a bad one and 1600+ is horrible. 
In that test, LOW is good.

-- 
Alain
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