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"How panic-proof are you"?
« on: October 23, 2008, 09:18:42 AM »
Here's the link if you want to try it: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/panicquiz.html

I have no way of knowing how valid this test is. I got a 72.

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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2008, 11:02:56 PM »
I did it as fast as I possibly could, scored a 68.
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2008, 05:02:00 PM »
Got 80. Now, if I had done the test when I was much younger, I'd have done a lot worse. In my advancing years I tend to be a lot more laid back. How accurate do you think the test is?
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2008, 05:05:37 PM »
Well, let's put it this way, the test was made back in the 1950's when the government was trying to keep the public as calm as possible, so at the very best, this test is only as scientific as the rest of the 1950's. I'm not investing a lot of confidence in it. I just posted it as a novelty more than anything.
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2008, 05:29:59 PM »
I kind of got scared when you said test.
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2008, 05:37:21 PM »
And to think that back in the fifties they didn't have a mouse to color all of those damn dots with! Most of those questions in part one were largely subjective. What I mean to say is that circumstance would dictate my reaction. In line where for instance? At the movies I wouldn't get upset at being cut in front of (if I went to movies)... But in line at the ER with one of my kids, someone might have to get slightly injured to retain my position.


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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2008, 05:42:08 PM »
keep calm
analyze the facts
take stock of your commodities
plan your eventualities
stockpile according to your circumstance
rethink all the above as things emerge

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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2008, 05:54:35 PM »
And when you DO panic just pump round after round into it until whatever about it that was worrying you stops. I'm just saying.
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2008, 06:58:36 PM »
Not a good plan in the dark.  Particularly is you have friends in the neibourhood.
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2008, 07:20:49 PM »
I filled in the dots by clicking the first one with the mouse, then alternating tab and spacebar until I got to the end of the dots.  It was really fast.
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2008, 07:30:33 PM »
Quote from: Lady Lilya on October 26, 2008, 07:20:49 PM
I filled in the dots by clicking the first one with the mouse, then alternating tab and spacebar until I got to the end of the dots.  It was really fast.

 :laughing002:...cheater. I imagine back when they made the test, you would have had to use a #2 pencil or something.
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2008, 07:33:55 PM »
It would take me much less time with a pencil than with the mouse on this laptop.
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2008, 07:45:46 PM »
Remind me never to challenge you to a pencil using contest.
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2008, 07:59:54 PM »
Quote from: opsec on October 26, 2008, 07:45:46 PM
Remind me never to challenge you to a pencil using contest.
Do those exist?
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Re: "How panic-proof are you"?
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2008, 08:03:08 PM »
I'd like someone to explain this pencil thing to me.

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