Intelligence is one thing, how you use it quite another.

On April 1, internet quizzes seem at least as appropriate as renouncing our principled stands on the world, so here we go again. GrrlScientist poses the first part of the question: are you an idiot?

But she doesn't deal with the obvious follow-up question: what are you going to do with that intelligence?

My answers (as measured by quizzes that actually claim not to be "scientific measurements of what kind of person you are") below the fold.

I am 9% Idiot.
Friggin Genius

I am not annoying at all. In fact most people come to me for advice. Of course they annoy the hell out of me. But what can I do? I am smarter than most people.

So far so good -- I've got some "genius capital". How will I be spending it?

I am 72% Evil Genius.
Deceitful & Crazy!

Evil courses through my blood. Lies and deceit motivate my evil deeds. Crushing the weaklings and idiots that do nothing but interfere in my doings.

I have a suspicion that people with small minions (that is to say, parents) may get higher evil genius scores. There seems to be a significant overlap between what the parent has to do and what the evil genius has to do...

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Crushing the weaklings and idiots that do nothing but interfere in my doings.

Then how come he lost the 2000 election? I wonder.