I Am A Rounding Error

So Question 14 is where I started thinking something was up. Question 5 made me think for a moment with the ocean bit, but I passed it off as a joke. Around 20 is when I knew it was going to get personal.

I have been answering honestly to the best of my ability, but going forward will test my ability to do so.

27. I tell you that I want to see where this goes. 28. Stunned by the length of the final answer, I fail to answer in time. I bother to read the whole thing, and feel a little bad for doing so.

29. My ability to answer honestly breaks down, because here’s where I don’t know if my answer is true or not.

34. Fact: I care about you.

37. I agree that language is usually inadequate.

41. Thanks for the break. Thinking about all this can feel overwhelming if I linger on it for too long.

42. A paragraph is insufficient to summarize a person. It’s not always inaccurate though. Sometimes I feel like I could be summarized in a single paragraph.

44. And thank you, for making this quiz. I did my best to answer honestly.

Anyway my result was “the end”. I hope that reflects well on my personality! Oh, same as other respondents. I guess I’m not unique and quirky enough.

Okay post-quiz thoughts:

This was incredibly well written in my opinion. I never quite knew where it was going next but I loved each new turn. I like how at certain points I didn’t know if I was answering as myself or as the quiz author. I mean, I suppose on a meta level it’s author all the way down, but in the moment it kinda threw me off balance. The author thing also weaves nicely into the ongoing idea of the answers to the quiz not mattering. The answers not mattering in three senses:

1. It’s all author as previously mentioned, so you’re just answering your own questions in a way.

2. The limited options means whatever answer you give will likely not have enough nuance, or your preferred answer may not be there.

3. Even taking the blank space, “write your own answer” questions into account, there’s only one result on the quiz, so it doesn’t really matter anyway.

4. It’s a quiz. It can’t hear me. I suppose in a way I wanted the quiz to hear me. Why else on 34 would I tell the quiz that I cared about it? Although I suppose the way I wrote it was insufficient anyway. Was I telling that to the quiz? The author? I think that’s part of why I took the time to write out my thoughts here, for you, the author. I cared about your quiz and the way it made me feel, enough to try communicating that to you in a format not nearly as limited as the quiz itself.

Okay I probably would have other thoughts if it wasn’t like 2am writing this so I gotta wrap this up and go to sleep. I found this all very interesting.