obsession quiz (multiple replies)

[Simon Branford]

No: HPFGUIDX 9579

Simon wrote: "Come on list mother - tell us how bad it was. You're in 
here with a bunch of obsessive people so it cannot be that bad! I 
found it quite amusing that you can get 202% on that quiz (involves 
you being Steve, Jenna, Penny and DrMM - which may be difficult!).
DrMM replied: "You're supposed to take this *honestly* ;) You can 
also get 162% if you answer all of them but the bonus questions.  I 
had to give more points to certain questions because really,  
#74 "Have you ever gone around King's Cross station bumping into 
various walls trying to get to platform 9 3/4?" is much more 
obsessive than #77 "Have you played a Harry Potter game?"  Or so it 
seems to me :)
I debated on counting up all the points (but the last four bonus 
ones) and dividing by that number . . . but chose not to.  That's 
just me though :)"

I first went through and took the quiz seriously - getting the less 
than 50% that I mentioned earlier.

I then thoguht that there was no way I had ticked that many boxes so 
decided to have a look at how the quiz worked and to see how much it 
was possible to score. It was at this stage that I found out the 
hypothetical maximum score of 202%.

To my mind less than 50% cannot classify as obsessive. It sounds so 
odd to have such a low percentage qualifying one as an obsessive.

I have seen other similar survey things where they cont the other 
way. So 100% is totally uninterested and 0% is total obsessive. In 
this case you can also get round the problems caused by being able to 
get over 100% by saying that anything below 0% counts as 0%.


Simon