Autumn-time, when the livin' is easy... and mispelled...

[ciroccoj]

Lifted from bast2, I'd have to agree with this assessment. Although I'm not sure what would come up if the test had anything post-childhood in it - like accidents, children (for good and bad), depression, illnesses, deaths, residency, moving, etc etc.

::shrug:: Probably pretty similar to what I got for the current test. I figure the good has (mostly) balanced out the bad and, more importantly, I've got it easier than most of the world due to the mere fact that I have access to clean water and enough food to eat.

Easy Your life has been 23% difficult.

Based on your family, money, political context, and personal situation -- during the important years of your development -- it appears your life was EASY. What does this mean? Well, the "difficulty" of your life is a measure of how rough you had it. Relative to the world, you had a pretty good childhood. I'm not saying it was really easy, just that you weren't gnawing on a belt for calories. Still though, it wasn't perfect. I'm not sure what "success" means to you, but whatever it is, you can achieve it. When you do, it'll be that much more impressive. I have a new test! Straight males and gay/bi females, check out my brand new How Low Are Your Sex Standards Test

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 30% on difficult

Link: The How Difficult Is Your Life Test written by chicken_pot_pie on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

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OK, and now that I'm done feeling good about how easy my life is compared to most of the known world, I will take a couple of seconds to bitch.

Because y'know, it's irritating enough when you read a fic written by a teenyweenybopper on fanfiction.net and wonder Wha... how in hell did Point A connect to Point B in this story? And how could the author have managed to misspell both Ponit A and Poitn D?

It's doubly irritating when you end up thinking the same thing about an article submitted for consideration to a Law Review.

Comments

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

I got even easier on that test, which is completely true. My life has been very easy. But I find the test itself to be...well. I don't know what word I want, but questions like "how attractive were you" do not seem like fair questions to rate the "easiness" of your life. Very attractive people can have miserable existences as teenagers--and can suffer ridicule from their peers just as easily as "non-attractive" people.

Just my $.02. :)

[woffproff.livejournal.com]

I've had the same reaction to a lot of the things I've seen on fanfic.net, but then afterwards I'll feel a little guilty, thinking, 'hey, maybe this is this person's first attempt.' In the back of my mind I'll always hear my first college English professor telling me that my own writing was 'immature' and would never rise above a 7th grade level. All of this was said with a 'why don't you stop now' look in her eyes. So I try to tell myself that everyone has to start somewhere and writing fanfic is (I believe, anyway) a lot harder than writing original fiction.

That being said, there's no excuse for not running a spellcheck before one puts something in the public eye! Or at least getting someone to beta it first. And one needs to be able to accept constructive criticism gracefully, which a lot of the younger writers can't do.

And there's just no excuse for someone writing that poorly in Law Review. Especially when (I presume) there is a great need for an argument, to make point A connect to point B. That's got to be a tough job---I would never want to be an editor, I think I'd pull my hair out.