Internet Quizzes

I was bored last night, and took one of those internet quizzes. You know the ones, which state should you live in, what country should you live in, what rock star are you, what season are you, blah, blah, blah.

So part out of boredom, part out of interest of the math of it, and seeing how bad some are, I wanted to see how to make it work. I decided to make my own. And being a fan of high school sports, I decided to compare high schools in the Heart of Iowa Conference.

I was interested in the process of building one. It was a little time consuming, maybe took me two hours. But no big deal, Saturday night, put on some tunes, and fool around on the internet.

Only one problem I stumbled across. This particular program only allowed 8 choices. The HOIAC has 9 schools. So after some deliberation, sorry CMB, you weren't included.

So I set out to find some questions that differentiated the schools. Have soccer? Field turf on the football field? Multiple gyms? What sport are you good at?

The software then has you give a point total of 0, 1 or 2 to each school based on the answer given. So for example the soccer question was easy. If you answer you like soccer, all the HOIAC schools offering soccer get 2 points, the ones that don't get 0. If you click the answer that you don't like soccer, the schools without it get 2 points, and the schools with soccer get 0.

The bus trip question was a little more subjective. I came up with 3 answers. If you like bus trips, PCM, South Hamilton, and Greene County got 2s, Saydel, RS got 1s, and North Polk, Nevada, and Gilbert got 0s, because I saw them as the most centrally located. Oh yeah, there was one odd one. For the question on football field turf, 2s went to the schools that had grass or turf depending on the answer. However, for Nevada, 1 point was added no matter how you answered. They have grass, but are getting turf, so 1 point, no matter how you answered.

For presentation of the quiz, there are pictures. You can simply cut and paste in a URL for a pic out there on the net for the question itself, and for all the schools. That probably took as much time as anything. I had to find pics for 9 schools/towns, and for the 10 questions.

You can pretty much take the quiz to get to the answer you want. If you want your answer to end up as Gilbert, choose soccer, mega night, field turf, good in track/cross country, black or red, and that you like the roundabout!

So no smack talk in the quiz. I was getting tired, so the roundabout question was an add on just to get to 10.

If you want to take the quiz, HERE IT IS. It's starting to get shared around, so that is fun. Glad to see people are getting some amusement out of it.