{"id":853,"date":"2007-06-26T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T02:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/percent-geekiness-is-not-gender-specific\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T02:12:43","slug":"percent-geekiness-is-not-gender-specific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/percent-geekiness-is-not-gender-specific\/","title":{"rendered":"Percent geekiness is not gender specific&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/pipka.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/80-geek\/\">Pia is 80% geek<\/a>. That area in the brain that causes you to take internet quizzes got activated and I went and did it&#8230;. casually surprised that the first question was &#8220;what gender are you&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 After being geeky enough to debate one of the questions (the email one&#8230; you should get more points to be okay with not going for mail for a while because you instead batch it up so that you loose less time to context switching), I did the &#8220;so what if I answered this quiz as a woman&#8221;. It turns out, no difference &#8211; still the same percentage of geek.<\/p>\n<p>So why is the question there? Gah&#8230; the other part of my brain (the part responsible for optimisation) is firing intensely. gah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Pia is 80% geek. That area in the brain that causes you to take internet quizzes got activated and I went and did it&#8230;. casually surprised that the first question was &#8220;what gender are you&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 After being geeky enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/percent-geekiness-is-not-gender-specific\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-dL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":874,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/gah-o_direct-24-non-xfs-stab-stab\/","url_meta":{"origin":853,"position":0},"title":"gah&#8230; O_DIRECT&#8230;. 2.4&#8230;. non xfs&#8230; stab stab","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-07-31","format":false,"excerpt":"* dchinner hands MacPlusG3 a bigger knife.... 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