Test Your Gullibility Here are 31 statements. Rate each for truthfulness. Use a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 = absolutely untruthful, and 10 = 100% true. 1. Beethoven was deaf. 2. Some rocks are 4 billion years old. 3. "I am not a crook." –Richard Nixon. 4. "Truth is beauty and beauty truth. That is all you know and all you need to know." –Keats. 5. "e = mc2". 6. "The Tao that can be named is not the Tao." –Tao Te Ching. 7. "All men are created equal." –American Declaration of Independence. 8. America is a democracy. 9. "The eternally Feminine draws us onward." –Goethe (Faust). 10. The atomic weight of hydrogen is 1. 11. "In the beginning, God created heaven and earth." Genesis 1, 1. 12. Your fingernails are growing. 13. "Perseverance furthers." –I Ching. 14. "Religion is the opiate of the masses." –Karl Marx. 15. Too modest is half boastful. 16. We are living in the 21st century. 17. All statements printed in red on this page are false. 18. The "Mona Lisa" is a great work of art. 19. Pi = 3.1416… 20. "Nothing is what it seems, and what nothing seems is false." –Gore Vidal (Myra Breckinridge). 21. "To be or not to be. That is the question." –Shakespeare (Hamlet). 22. "It all depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is." –Bill Clinton. 23. The speed of light is ~300,000 km/sec. 24. Children should be seen and not heard. 25. "All is water." –Thales. 26. The Internet improves the quality of life. 27. "We will improve the mileage of our SUV’s by 25%." –Ford Motor Company. 28. "It’s not over till it’s over." –Yogi Berra. 29. "In the beginning was the Word." John 1, 1. 30. 100 degrees Celsius = 212 degrees Fahrenheit. 31. Scoring: One is either in the pervasive language/cultural swimming pool, or one is not. If you have even just a toe in the pool, you are still IN it. Which means that even if you find only the tiniest smidgen of truth in any of these statements, you are vulnerable to ALL implied truthfulness or falsity in all statements. Thus, the difference between the level of gullibility in a score of 1 and a score of 310 is minuscule. In other words, ANY score above 0 reveals that you are still a committed player in the culture game. Persons capable of a score of 0 would not be reading this test. END
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