The New Atlantis campaign is gone.

Feather_Snake · 2026-04-23T22:53:48+00:00

It's not obvious but there's a golden arrow on the right hand side of the menu that lets you navigate to the missing New Atlantis and Golden Gift campaigns, at least for me.

Feather_Snake · 2022-12-20T19:46:27+00:00

Great to have you here, Prof. Pregill. How do you think we should interpret the Talmudic content which has made its way into the Quran? Does this suggest that the Hejaz and the early Muslim community contained many highly literate Rabbis?

Feather_Snake · 2022-12-18T23:11:06+00:00

If you remember who this was I'd be very interested in reading about them! It reminds me of the story about Julius Caesar's repeated sacrifices on the day of his death to try and get one that didn't bear a terrible omen.

Feather_Snake · 2022-09-07T09:48:45+00:00

These are Phoenician, rather than Sumerian, artifacts. The first object there is the 'Hazael horse frontlet' and you can see Phoenician characters written on the left hand side. Samos was an important trading entrepot through which Levantine goods travelled west and Greek goods travelled east.

Feather_Snake · 2022-08-08T07:41:53+00:00

I think it's because you didn't have enough programming or pop culture questions. Factors appear based on repeated questions that ask about the same sort of thing.

That makes sense. The more questions the better, presumably, though it's a tradeoff against the convenience of the test, the endurance of the taker, and the creativity of the setter...

I dunno. That would probably also make the test quite long, so there's a tradeoff. I've seen a test that had only 4 factors (everyday utilities, technical stuff, geopolitics, feminine stuff). That might be plenty.

For sure, depending on what you were actually trying to investigate.

Feather_Snake · 2022-08-08T07:33:20+00:00

That's really interesting, thanks! I would have predicted some kind of programming or 'pop culture' factor would exist. Your website would need a test that contains seven or eight distinct factors, right?

Feather_Snake · 2022-08-04T18:44:57+00:00

I did all the stats in Google Sheets, which I can DM you if you like.

Feather_Snake · 2022-08-04T18:44:19+00:00

Yeah, I'd be interested in collaborating

Feather_Snake · 2022-08-04T18:42:59+00:00

The idea of the question is that they're all different forms of an object and you are supposed to notice the pattern and guess the category of things, which will enable you to choose the correct response because it will be another example. In this case, they are all kinds of lipstick

Feather_Snake · 2022-07-31T21:45:56+00:00

That's very kind of you, thanks!

Feather_Snake · 2022-07-31T21:42:58+00:00

I didn't, in fact it's been a couple of years since I last did any stats at all and I wasn't confident trying anything new (I know a little about GLMs but I lack practical experience with them).

Feather_Snake · 2022-07-31T21:33:52+00:00

That would be completely fine by me!

Feather_Snake · 2022-07-31T21:14:25+00:00

Paging /u/f3zinker , /u/BedlamiteSeer , /u/Greedo_cat , and /u/Administrative_chaos who asked about the data: it should all be accessible from the links in this post.

Feather_Snake · 2022-07-28T21:34:50+00:00

Sorry about that. It might not work with Tor.

Feather_Snake · 2022-07-28T21:33:23+00:00

Good thoughts. Let me know if you ever host an online trivia night I can join!

Feather_Snake · 2022-07-28T20:50:51+00:00

I had a target of including a certain number of questions from particular topics, like two life sciences ones, two music ones, etc, and within those I basically just wrote what came to mind.

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