Thursday, January 29, 2009

suspicious religious math

Aha! The Church of Scientology is not so friendly with the sciences. I've never seen anyone do addition the way they do and I've seen a lot of math-doing-attempting in my time. Here I am thinking that "standardized testing" is , you-know, standardized, fair, unbias, all that jazz.
Ha! Not at church!

At the Church of Scientology they give men 5 extra points on their 'IQ' test! Fuckers!

WTF is she doing taking the Scientology tests, you might be wondering. Well, why the fuck not -- it was supposed to be fun or funny or both...and the free brownies didn't hurt either. The day was sunny, I live near, why not venture and get some material, make fun of the weirdos? We sufficiently caught up on our Scientology research through the official sources - South Park and Wikipedia. The test is better described by my friend but let's just say 'standardized' seemed to be lurking somewhere in the proximity. The uber fucked up thing was that I answered more questions correctly, but was issued a lower score than my testing partner - a dude. Maybe he also got extra points for being white, tall and handsome, who the hell knows with those freaks.

Let me repeat. I answered more questions correctly and when their local math genius deducted the 27 wrongs from the total 80 questions, she was doing alright at first and got 53, successfully repeated the procedure on my friend's test and got 49. She then bluntly asked which test was who's and then it all went pare-shaped -- she added 75 points to his score and 70 to mine and announced Congratulations! You both did great!

Ok, that's lovely! Good to know the Scientologists think I'm smart and am "in the top 10% of people" (I'm only quoting). BUT! They scored him better than me - I don't mean to be kicking a dead horse - but I answered more questions correctly. Who knows how the scores would have gone had we taken the tests seriously, but I do know how the 'math' afterwards would have gone - he gets 75 more points and I, 70.

What are they trying to say? Man better than woman? Man -- head of the family unit? The provider? Leader? How the fuck they dare to say they aren't a religion I don't understand. Seems like religion 101 to me. I guess I would never make it to high ranks of the strong male leaders of Scientology?

Fucking heh - way to ruin a fun time. Fuckfaces!