Are you anal retentive per your apostrophe? (quote)

[tyvin]

This test is from OKCupid site and is a measure of how much you know your apostrophe placement.

They are connecting the ability to place an apostrophe properly with being anal retentive

I pride myself at knowing where to put the almighty apostrophe and thought to myself "this will be a breeze."

Hold the phone.................I got a "Well Done"



OkCupid: Take The anal-retentive apostrophe Test

Ignore the blue bar at the end of the test; you get results either way.

It's 20 questions and takes < 4 minutes (though it seemed longer when I got in trouble with a few of the questions).

Do we here at CD have a normal perfectionist amoung us?

[RichardW]

I finished the damn test and my result said

Well done!

You have 87 % apostrophy awareness!

[superk]

Well done!
You have 84 % apostrophy awareness!

[Fred314X]

I can live with errors now and then; I take solace in the fact that, if nothing else, I know how to spell apostrophe.

[RichardW]

Originally Posted by Fred314X

I can live with errors now and then; I take solace in the fact that, if nothing else, I know how to spell apostrophe.

So do we.

The "apostrophy awareness" was a mis-spelling in the actual quiz result when we copied and pasted our answers into this forum. Blame OKCUPID.COM and don't be a smart arse.

[Rocky Raab]

Only 89%, which disappoints me. I wish they'd show the questions which they think I missed.

What I want to know is how the heck you can get an 89% with 20 questions. Each one of 20 is worth exactly 5%; you can't get an 89.

Edit: Took it again, changed one answer and got a 91 - which STILL isn't possible with a total of 20 questions.

[tyvin]

Originally Posted by Rocky Raab

Only 89%, which disappoints me. I wish they'd show the questions which they think I missed.

What I want to know is how the heck you can get an 89% with 20 questions. Each one of 20 is worth exactly 5%; you can't get an 89.

Edit: Took it again, changed one answer and got a 91 - which STILL isn't possible with a total of 20 questions.

I too wish that we could find out which questions were missed.

I did really bad.

I find these links here and there and like to have some fun with it.

I did studies in advanced psych and know some of these test are pretty close to the mark as far as accuracy is concerned. Alas; it's a dating site and we shouldn't expect accolades of accuracy as we would in other circumstances.

They are generalized tools for fun.

Hey Rocky Raab; congratulations for being the first with perfection

[SandyCo]

95% - perfection. Of course, perfection is a misnomer if I didn't get 100%, right? I'd love to know which one I missed!

[Mary Ann789]

93%

[Rocky Raab]

Good on ya, Mary Ann.

I'm still not sure what set of rules they're using (yes, both of those are correct!) but the one about CDs (again) should be CD's by older rules. Modern Style Guides allow us to drop the apostrophe when pluralizing numerals and initialized contractions. Older rules don't (again, again). So 8s, TVs and CDs are correct when we are speaking of more than one numeral 8, TV or CD. The Brits also deviate a bit from American usage, calling some uses correct that we'd (again) shun.

Yes, I know my freakin' apostrophes!