OK, people, here’s a test. Look at the following image and tell me what you see:
Do you see a circle?
Answers are under the fold.
If you do see a circle, you are a LIBERAL.
If you don’t see a circle, you are a CONSERVATIVE.
I’m a total conservative according to the test.
P.S. If you don’t want to follow the link, here’s a brief explanation: if you don’t see a circle, you are unforgiving of small imperfections and must be a Conservative.
This is stupid. It’s very obviously not a circle, it’s at best a bad scribble attempting to be a circle. If a kid drew this and you asked me what I think the kid was trying to draw, I’d say “Probably a circle.” That’s as close as it comes to a circle.
Maybe I am a conservative (hardly), but more likely I have high standards for my geometric shapes.
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My husband also turned out to be a conservative according to the test. Hmmm….
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You draw much better than that, XYKADEetc. (I peeked at your website.)
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She’s very talented.
I, on the other hand, could not draw a circle like this, not even with a compass. But I’m still unforgiving to those who created this circle. 🙂
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It was obviously “drawn” digitally on a program like MS-Paint, which can automatically generate perfect circles, and was deliberately distorted. If it were drawn by hand using the ancient pen-and-ink method, the band around the design wouldn’t have a perfectly uniform thickness.
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“Do you see a circle?”
As a topologist, I can say that this is clearly a picture of a Cartesian product of a circle and a line segment. It is slightly distorted, but this is topologically irrelevant.
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This sounds very sophisticated. 🙂
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thanks!
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Actually, it looks like an attempt by a liberal to draw a circle.
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Hilarious. :-))))
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To me it was a rock or boulder. What does that make me?
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I’m a liberal.
As an old 1/2 Ukranian/Russian drunk, that’s as close to a circle as I could draw – or see, for that matter.
In other words, it’s circular – enough…
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In case you missed it, gulag drunkard, there’s an appropriate reply to your earlier insult in the “Mea Culpa” post about why the coming war with ISIS is a circle that can’t be squared, don matter how much vodka an old 1/2 Ukrainian/Russian like you has in his system.
I understand that all of your brains are in your Russian half — so you have my sympathy.
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I see a really crappy hexagon attempting to be a really crappy circle …
So if the really crappy hexagon is France metropolitain, what would its attempt to become a really crappy circle represent? 🙂
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I figured it was either an attempt at a circle or maybe a heptagon. A weird, squiggly heptagon. Does that make me a moderate?
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I’m with xykademiqz here. It’s a failed attempt to draw a circle. And I’m no conservative!
I hope this is just some entertaining pop quiz and not an actual psychological study.
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I’d say this is more a test of whether you’re of a mathematical/engineering bent of mind or not. A circle is a very specific geometric shape to me (and to N and xyk, I suppose). Whereas someone with a more artistic inclination could see this as an interpretation of a circle.
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So what are you saying? I’m not artistic? Huh? HUH? 🙂
More mathematical than artistic is anathema to me in my profession. The only thing that’s worse is to call me Germanic.
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Ha, there’s a lot of art in mathematics. They’re not mutually exclusive.
You do insist on precise usage of terms, though, which is definitely a mark of a mathematical person.
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“The only thing that’s worse is to call me Germanic.”
Nah, was zum Teufel ist los mit “Germanic”?
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German sentences are considered to be too long, clunky and inelegant. So when people write badly in English or Spanish, they are called Germanic. Which is unfair since English is a Germanic language.
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“German sentences are considered to be too long, clunky and inelegant.”
But they’re grammatically precise, like the clicking of every single second on a cuckcoo clock.
English grammar is ridiculously easy — and very sloppy.
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Strange… I saw a badly drawn circle. For some reason I believed that the intent must have been to draw a circle… and I have Ph.D. in physics.
On a second though – maybe this has something to do with being a teacher and frequently being put into the position of trying to understand what the student intended to express, to give him/her benefit of doubt. 🙂
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“For some reason I believed that the intent must have been to draw a circle… and I have Ph.D. in physics.”
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“I hope this is just some entertaining pop quiz and not an actual psychological study.”
It was a research project by a Ph.D. psychologist who — like most psychologists who didn’t have the brains to go to medical school and become psychiatrists — makes a living being an idiot.
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Where’s an oncologist when you need him?
[“there was a rumour, he had a tumour, nestled at the base of his brain …”] 🙂
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This is just for fun. Political identifications are a lot more complex.
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My exact thoughts: “What? This is a circle.” beat of a second during which my eyes look at circumference “That’s badly drawn.”
🙂 Maybe it’s a child’s rendering of a circle. Or a snow ball in the middle of a white out.
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What’s next? Venn diagram tests? Inkblots?
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No, a really great mailbox quiz is coming soon. Absolutely exclusive.
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[CN: discussion of geometry]
My first thought was anger at the impossible standards that society imposes upon those who identify as circles.
Then I checked my privilege and realized that just because I read it as a circle that didn’t mean that the shape had intended to be read as a circle.
So then I applied an intersectional analysis and realized that the US government is oppressing all geometric (and semi-geometric and non-geometric and a-geometeric) shapes and that strengthened my resolve to create a safe space where all shapes can express their shapedness wihtout judgment or harmful consequences (which of course does not mean that those entities that do not wish to be read as shapes are excluded).
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Cliff, this is perfect. Or rather nearly perfect. You have forgotten a trigger warning.
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The comments here are a lot better than the actual quiz. 🙂
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[cn:geometry, algebra, Euclid, time, oranges]
Dude, your #allshapesmatter rhetoric is disappearing the differently shaped who cannot be defined by a simple Euclidean geometric formula. Just because the shape cannot be defined doesn’t mean it doesn’t have worth. Intersections only seem to apply to points on a line but what about ovals? Does every discussion about circles have to disappear ovals? They exist too! And why are you insisting that shapes be contained within a space? Shapes have a time dimension too. Man, just go back to algebra and stop listening to Khan Academy.
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I come from a country with a more proportional voting system, and thus more active parties in a country than two. While I appreciate the tribal dances of american political identities as much as anyone, I am caught off guard every time the business of “psychological research” spits out another serving of essential differences between conservatives and liberals.
Sure, in a sense, political issues do tend to cluster into groups, and these probably map to individual psychology in some way. But in another, equally important sense, that’s all downright bullshit – the fact there’s two is just a knock-on effect of some forgotten accident of history locking down some political institutions instead of others.
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Right, so did you join the Geometric People’s Front or the People’s Front of Geometry? 🙂
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The Liberation Front of the Hypotenuse. Euclid Akbar!
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I thought it was the outline of Charlie Brown’s head. What does this make me?
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A person who knows who Charlie Brown is. 🙂
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This link just leads to a string of code — ??? — or is it that it is just not Linux friendly (I am running Ubuntu)
Is it liberal or conservative of me to see that in the drawing … what if I consider myself left of liberal, and not part of the liberal-conservative dichotomy?
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