I took it earlier this week, and I got 80%. But, I agree, it was a tough quiz. Tricky is more like it. I actually totally guessed on two questions (correct guesses, too) because I thought the question was more about some obscure little-known fact than a general design principle.
I must be a better guesser than you...I got 90%...I guessed on several! Still don't know which one I got wrong, but I didn't read the stuff at the end...did they tell you which one(s) you missed?
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I got: 60% Back to school! You answered 6 out of 10 questions correctly. You know form and function belong together, and you can tell a Craftsman bungalow from a Tudor mansion.
Yeah, they tell you when you click on "how you scored" I thought some of the questions were tricky too.
I got Question 5 wrong.
*Good Industrial Design... Conveys priorities *You chose:Articulates many ideas
Design Dabbler-You know form and function belong together, and you can tell a Craftsman bungalow from a Tudor mansion. In other other words, I'm not a genius....
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It stated VERY specifically that I am NOT a genius and that I must go to school to learn more and frequent this message board for some extra credit and assistance. Help I need a tutor!
In actuality, it stated that I am a 'design dabbler'. Not too shabby for this newbie I might add .
9/10, says I'm a genius!!! I think all it means is that I'm a good guesser. Genius is highly overrated anyhow.
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I decided to do it again to see which one I missed...it was the Frank Gehry chair! Who knew? I should have realized that the Eames wouldn't be the answer to two questions!
I've somehow always known I was a genius...just couldn't get anyone else to agree...
What fun! Glad you all enjoyed it...except for Mags, that is! I never expected him to take it, after all, he IS the resident genius around here, right?
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[Bayleedog, when I started posting online way back in 1999, I intentionally chose a screen name that meant nothing, and for several years, I avoided giving any indication of my gender, even when I had a monthly decorating chat on AOL's old decorating board. I figured that who I was (and by the way, I'm nobody you've ever heard of) was irrelevant, and that the only thing that mattered was what I had to say. That's the beauty of an anonymous message board: we start out on a level playing field. But most of the members of that board were women, and so they simply assumed that I was a woman, too. I figured it didn't need to be corrected.
Then one night, a new hyper-male poster showed up for my monthly chat, and after a few back-&-forth exchanges of strong opinions, he made a public comment that he found my 'sassy' tone really appealing & said that he'd been 'looking for a feisty gal' like me. At first, I just ignored his comments, figuring he'd lose interest if I didn't respond, but instead, he thought I was playing hard-to-get, and he began making remarks that could be interpreted in more than one way, one of which ways was totally inappropriate for a public forum. The forum's online moderator told him to cool it, but he kept it going, so finally I just said "Back off, Bozo." When he started it again, the moderator--with whom I'd talked on the phone when I had trouble running my first few chats--said "MR P----, if you persist, you will be banned. Mag ISN'T interested. Mag is a GUY!!!!!"
Mr P---- apologized right away, so it solved that problem, but the sudden revelation caused another, because there was an instant reaction from a lot of the other members of the board. "Who does he think he is? What gives HIM the right to hand out advice? This chat is for EVERYONE!!!" But my favorite comment was the woman who wrote "I ALWAYS knew Mag was a guy. That bossy, arrogant, know-it-all tone is a dead giveaway. He sounds exactly like my ex-husband!"
But even that wasn't the worst. No, the worst was the heartbreaking private messages I started getting from women saying that they were looking for a dad for their little kids, and that I seemed like a nice, down-to-erath guy, or asking if maybe I needed an assistant at my decorating company because they couldn't find a job & needed to find work before their unemployment ran out or--in the case of women who lived near Chicago--offering to cook me a nice meal if I would help them redecorate their house because their husbands thought decorating was a stupid waste of time and refused to help.
It was awful, and although I retired my monthly chat soon after that on the excuse that I couldn't type fast enough or well enough to make the chat format work--which, unfortunately, was all too true--the real reason was that I couldn't deal with all the requests for my assistance. It can be a beautiful world, but it's also a sad one, and no matter how much I might wish otherwise, there are a lot of things that no color suggestion or history lesson can help.
At any rate, compared to all that stuff, your thoroughly understandable error is as nothing, and, certainly, no apology is necessary. In the immortal words of Elsie DeWolfe, the first big-time female decorator, "Never complain, Never explain." Best wishes to you. M.]
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