#Microblog Monday 357: Disconnected Words
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I think I have found my secret skill: listing unconnected words. I keep playing the Divergent Association Task exercise, and I’ve been able to come up with randomness:
You list unrelated nouns (single word; no proper nouns) and it tells you how unrelated those words are. And how well you do this task related to other people taking the quiz. I believe only your first score counts for the research, but you can take the quiz over and over again, trying to best your own score.
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I tried the quiz. My score was 89.15.
You ARE talented! My score was 76.31, higher than 39.99% of people.
As soon as it said “don’t just list things in your area” that was literally all I could do. Maybe I should try it again in the morning when I’m not braindead from my first day of teaching! 🙂
I got a 78.86. Perfectly average.
Okay, I can see that would be very addictive! My first attempt I got 79%. They gave a high score to monk and ice, which ironically are indelibly linked for me, after I saw Thai monks in Iceland visiting a beach covered with icebergs! Later, in a second attempt, I got 103 for laboratory and caravan, which amused me because the combination instantly reminded me of Breaking Bad. My third attempt got 92.11! I had to work at it.
It’s fascinating to me how a word triggers other words that I quickly realise are linked – whether by similarities or opposites- and I have to consciously put them aside.