Day 27: some fun (and hard) MIT tests

Contribute to science with these tests! These are some quizzes designed to map people's knowledge and perfect algorithms, so any help you can provide is valuable!

I propose completing both quizzes and sharing the results with us. The first one is a veeeery hard vocabulary quiz that will tell you how well you did in the same (native speaker) age and education bracket as you. The second one aims at guessing the variety of English that you speak and your native language based on what you consider grammatical. I found this one really interesting!

You can see my results below. I'm so proud that the second one guessed my native language would be English! Not to mention that my variety of English would be New Zealandish, lol. Love it!

The challenge, then, is the following:

- Go to this website and complete both quizzes.

- Share your results with us. Which one did you prefer? How hard was it?


Enjoy!


PS: my results:

The Vocab Quiz

Your score:
27/32


Among native English speakers of your age and education,
you did as well as or better than:
67%




Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. New Zealandish
2. Australian
3. English (England)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. German
3. Romanian


Comments

  1. fdgcApril 11, 2020 at 7:02 AM

    Hi, Bea,

    The vocabulary test was insane for moments. The other was easier, but tricky in some questions as well. Definitely, I liked more the second.
    Anyhow, these are my results (I can´t paste the images):

    The Vocab Quiz:
    - Your Score: 19/32
    - About native English speakers...: 33%

    Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
    1. English (England)
    2. New Zealandish
    3. Welsh (UK)

    Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
    1. Polish
    2. English
    3. Italian

    I don´t know how to interpret these results hahahaha
    Thank you, Bea, for this huge variety of exercises.

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    1. Shall I compare thee...April 11, 2020 at 11:05 AM

      I don't know how to interpret them either, Daniel! Hahahaha!

      I like it that we coincide in our strain of New Zealandish English. We need to find out more about it, I'm curious now!

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  2. EvelitaApril 11, 2020 at 2:03 PM

    Hello!!!

    This was interesting and, the vocabulary quizz, really hard. Many of the words I got seemed to stem from Latin and that's why I could guess them...

    Here are my results! (I couldn't either paste the results :-()

    The Vocab Quiz:
    - Your Score: 22/32
    - About native English speakers...: 20%

    Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
    1. English (England)
    2. Scottish UK)
    3. New Zealandish


    Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
    1. Hungarian
    2. English
    3. Polish

    Thank you Bea!!!

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  3. MiguelRMApril 12, 2020 at 3:14 AM

    Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
    1. English (England)
    2. Welsh (UK) (Spanish. English. Welsh. In that order haha)
    3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics (:0)

    Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
    1. Spanish (They nailed it LOL)
    2. Portuguese
    3. Turkish

    The Vocab Quiz
    Your score: 20/32
    Among native English speakers of your age and education,
    you did as well as or better than: 21%

    On this quiz, there were words that I've never seen before, and I hope not to see again!

    I found these challenges quite entertaining! Thank you Bea!

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  4. AngelApril 12, 2020 at 11:27 AM

    Hi bea,

    I've found the vocabulary quiz quite difficult! There are many words that I'd never seen before.
    So, these are my results:

    Which English

    Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
    1. English (England)
    2. Scottish (UK)
    3. Welsh (UK)

    Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
    1. Spanish
    2. Turkish
    3. Russian

    The Vocab Quiz

    Your score:
    17/32

    Among native English speakers of your age and education, you did as well as or better than:
    18%

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