What's Your Digital IQ?
Category: Tech...
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 03:54 PM [GMT-6]

MSNBC has an online test designed to test your "digital IQ." It's an interesting -- even fun -- way to spend a few minutes answering questions about a variety of things related to the "digital lifestyle."

Some interesting things about the test:

• You get big points if you have a "weblog" (would have been more revealing if they'd used "blog")
• You get big points if 5 or more blogs link to your blog (so...they at least know about the Ecosystem!)
• Some of the questions are just dumb; I lost points because the choices related to updating my virus protection definitions were "within the last week" and "what's a virus definition?" I use a Mac, so updating virus definitions isn't exactly at the top of my list. That cost me 10 points. Forewarned is forearmed.
• If you work in a real office, you can score more points than if you work at home.

My score flags me as a nerd (I didn't know people actually used that term anymore). Only 45% of the test takers to-date (about 21,000) scored at the "nerd-level," which surprised me a little.