Out of curiosity... "purity" graph

[jay]

I looked at the posted public scores of people on my friends-list who took that test over the past couple of days, and generated a histogram. It looks like a two-mode distribution, centered around the low-30s and mid-60s respectively... I fall into the latter clump, personally (score = 69). Compare my friends with the average of all those taking the test (currently = 66)...

Oh, well... off to work now.

Comments

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Notes, likewise...
(1) Agreed, the sample size is too small. Although the bi-modality still holds with the handful of results posted since this morning. Suggestive, though.

(2) I thought about that as a reason for the double-peak... but the test seems to be evenly weighed in its overall scoring, so "gayness" only counts 1/6. A 50-60 point drop in that area, equating it to the "straightness" score, then only results in an eight or nine point drop in the overall average. I retook the test myself and simply duplicated my "straightness" checks, and my score only dropped from 69->60. So bi-ness, alone, isn't enough to explain a 30-point average gap between the clumps...

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

(2) Interesting - though there is a possibility that biness might correlate with other things that lower the test score. Have you tried the experiment of just removing all those who have a significant 'biness' judging from their answers? I think this would be an interesting parallel experiment to your own score duplication.