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Friday Fun Thread for March 27, 2026

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Emil Kirkegaard has a new test, a "Multifactor General Knowledge Test". Link here: https://taketest.xyz/mfgkt

It's short and takes maybe 5 minutes. The percentile rankings are fun. Surely The Motte can drag the distribution rightward.

My results. (Foiled again by my working class upbringing.)

He also mentions:

Of course, this test has massive cultural bias!

There also seem to be a lot of typos in the options.

KnowledgeScore (out of maximum possible)Percentile out of USAians of ages 50–69…out of Anglosphere* people
Computational58/609999
International47/509797
Cultural74/805576
Aesthetic41/504253
Literary24/307068
Technical39/409697
Total293/3209798

*US, CA, IE, UK, AU, and NZ. (Insert angry Éire noises?)

I think the typos are deliberate foil questions, under the assumption that a person genuinely familiar with the topic would notice that the word was misspelled.

That would be crazy not to tell you and just have it as a trick. Anyway, I picked the typoed options as if there were correct, and got 304 overall, broken down into:

Computational Knowledge

56 / 0–60 97th centile Site: 86th

International Knowledge

47 / 0–50 97th centile Site: 70th

Cultural Knowledge

78 / 0–80 97th centile Site: 97th

Aesthetic Knowledge

47 / 0–50 95th centile Site: 95th

Literary Knowledge

28 / 0–30 96th centile Site: 90th

Technical Knowledge

38 / 0–40 91st centile Site: 78th

So I don't think the typos can be traps or I'd have done worse. Embarrassing score on Literary for a wordcel like me though.

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