Saturday, September 19, 2009

Age & Weapons Test

My class was assigned to take two tests; the Age Test, and one of our choice. I decided to take the Weapons Test because I wanted to see just how opposed I was to weapons, even though I already know. The Age Test was to see if I preferred either old or young people.

When I finished with the test, it told me my analysis gave no information about my automatic preference. I'm guessing my result wasn't informative enough; too neutral. Because, I really don't prefer young people over old people, or viceversa. Sure, I kinda feel uncomfortable among old or adult people, but that's just because of the difference of ages.

But I also feel shy with young people because I'm timid. So clearly, that states I prefer no ages. The only age I'm comfortable with is babies, and infants, because in some ways, they're so much easier to deal with. You don't have to worry about having the right topics of conversation with them, or about not looking too nerd, or too anti-social, or too boring, etc.

It was the same with the Weapons test. It wasn't informative enough. I don't understand why they related weapons to White or Black people.

I don't wanna say that they did it because of racism because that would be kind of immature, and maybe it would even start another discussion like the one I witnessed (thankfully, I was absolutely no part in it) in my class yesterday, and truly, I'm not in the mood for that. But, I just don't understand why they'd do that. And, I don't agree with what they told me, that my results weren't enough to give me an accurate result.

I think it was because they didn't ask too many questions about what we thought about the subject, they just went ahead and asked us to place pictures in their right category, asking us about our race, religion, and how we felt about old/young people and how we considered weapons were related to Black/White people. I didn't like how they kept asking these personal questions, like religion and ethnicity. I don't think that has anything to do.

I'm not sure why the teacher told us to do this, but she must have her reasons and I'll respect them. I just didn't really see a point on the tests.

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