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Purity Tests!
A purity test attempts to gauge how "pure"
you are within some realm of experience by having you answer a list of questions
regarding which acts, etc. associated with the subject you have engaged in.
Generally, for each "yes" answer you lose a purity point. The result is scaled
to tell you what percentage of purity you still retain.
History
Purity tests have existed for ages, originally taking the form of written lists
of questions. With the advent of the Net, it became popular to distribute them
by electronic means. Some were modified to be programs or shell scripts which
would ask you each question in turn, and do the calculations for you when you
were done. In 1989, Eric Lechner wrote a program
that would do the same thing using data files that described different purity
tests. He converted various purity tests to this format and made the package available.
Here's the manual
page that describes it.
In June 1994 I finally finished a pyrotechnics purity
test that I had begun working on during the same period in which Eric wrote
his program, and decided to make an HTML version of it. I ended up writing a program to
convert purity test data files in the Lechner format into HTML forms, and another
program that the output of the first can be sent to to provide the person taking
the test with a score, thus creating the first purity tests on the web.
What's Here
Some of the tests below are from Eric's purity
test package, run through the conversion program described above. Since I put up
the purity test scorer, I have found it being used for new tests by web authors
who found one of the existing tests and changed the questions to those from a
different pool. I've added some of those tests here. More recently, I've found a
bunch of tests in HTML format, with the questions given as HTML lists. This
format is also easy to (mostly automatically) convert to a checkbox test, so
I've added a bunch of them here.
Some test authors have created tests specifically to use the scoring program
here, and have submitted them to me. If you have a new test which uses this
scoring system that you would like to see added, feel free to point me at
it. Please don't be offended if I decide not to add it. I've gotten enough
requests for additions that I am now only adding those that are particularly
interesting and different. As you can see below, there are already plenty
of sex tests.
You can use this web interface
to create a purity test that uses The Armory's automatic scoring system. Or,
if you want to create a purity test from scratch, see this explanation
of how to write one.
Important Note!
I get a fair amount of mail regarding these purity tests, with some correspondents
telling me that they enjoyed the tests, and others taking me to task for the contents
of one or the other of the tests. The latter seem to have missed the information
above, namely, that I only created one of the tests below (the pyro test).
If you wish to comment on
the appropriateness, tastelessness, etc. of my making these tests available in
this format, feel free, though as a long-time chunkstyler I will generally take
tasteless to be a compliment. However, please at least demonstrate
that you are aware of the above distinction. If you wish to take issue with the
contents of a test, you would be best off discussing it with the author, if that
information is available. Whatever information I have on the authorship of each
test is contained in the text of the test.
DISCLAIMER
The tests below are presented here for your amusement
only.
They are not a reflection of my personal opinions.
Their existence
here is not an endorsement of their contents.
They are not intended as a
promotion of any of the acts described in them.
Use your own judgement!!!
(sheesh!)
Final Note
If you find that a purity test ends abruptly (before the actual end of the
test), it's probably because the HTTP transfer failed or your browser is not
capable of dealing with the huge number of checkboxes that the larger tests
have. You may wish to scroll to the bottom of a test to make sure it's all there
before filling it out, since it's annoying to find out 90% of the way through
a 1500-question test that you can't submit it.
Checkbox Purity Tests
- Geekishness/Technical Knowledge, etc. Purity Tests
- Other Purity Tests
- Sex/General Purity Tests
Further purity test resources:
- A purity-test-like
card game
The Armory Purity Test Scoring Engine has processed more than 8 million test
submissions as of April 2002.
This web page © 1994 and maintained by John DuBois
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