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Drug Use and Frontal Lobe Performance (online quiz)

Please classify yourself.

  • Above average / Prolific drug user

    Votes: 3 10.3%
  • Above average / Occasional drug user

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Above average / Rarely or never use drugs

    Votes: 7 24.1%
  • Average / Prolific drug user

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Average / Occasional drug user

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Average / Rarely or never use drugs

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Below average / Prolific drug user

    Votes: 4 13.8%
  • Below average / Occasional drug user

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Below average / Rarely or never use drugs

    Votes: 8 27.6%
  • Other

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Total voters
    29

rhinosaur

Just a statistic
Joined
Apr 23, 2007
Messages
1,464
MBTI Type
INTP
First, please take this interesting and fun online quiz:
Task Switching Experiment

When you get the results, please answer the poll.

1) Classify yourself according to your score on the quiz (Above average, average, or below average).

2) Classify yourself according to drug use, past or present. A prolific user would be someone who uses or has used many drugs, or someone who uses drugs frequently. I'm focusing on the popular definition of "drugs," which includes alcohol, prescription drugs, pot, and all (other) illegal drugs.

Comments are welcome, of course. Do you think that drug use would affect performance on this quiz?
 

disregard

mrs
Joined
Apr 23, 2007
Messages
7,826
MBTI Type
INFP
Other -- test was too annoying to finish / occasional drug user.

What was up with the word feeling and emotion alternating below the faces during the first trial?
 

rhinosaur

Just a statistic
Joined
Apr 23, 2007
Messages
1,464
MBTI Type
INTP
I wonder if a person's type would affect their score on this quiz. Maybe INFPs are more likely to flake out before the quiz is finished. ;)
 

Totenkindly

@.~*virinaĉo*~.@
Joined
Apr 19, 2007
Messages
50,192
MBTI Type
BELF
Enneagram
594
Instinctual Variant
sx/sp
Other -- test was too annoying to finish / occasional drug user. What was up with the word feeling and emotion alternating below the faces during the first trial?

They're just adding more complexity to the task -- two different ways to trigger the same response, so you can't just do a binary "either/or" in your head, there are FOUR possibilities that could show up.

But I think they also mix up the test. My first trial was gender, not emotion.

What i didn't like once was that the keystroke didn't register... and I sat there waiting. So my score was wrong. And later it happened again. It really hosed the results. They should probably factor out any scores that don't fit within a particular cluster, as anomalies.
 

ajblaise

Minister of Propagandhi
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Aug 3, 2008
Messages
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I thought I was owning that test, until the third part. I think I would have done better if I took a little more time rather than the button mashing I did. I got below average.

I'm not sure if drug use effected me on this, I really don't think the drugs I take make me mentally slower, they probably increase mental activity, but throughout the whole test I would be thinking about other things, or even thinking about the test overall and not what I was doing right then in the test.
 
Joined
May 27, 2008
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They should have factored in accuracy. Any old dolt can just whap away at keys as quickly as possible and get a super low score on the ms count. I know for a fact I messed up only once the entire time, but my scores were higher than average (815 ms for gender and 855 ms for emotion)
 

prplchknz

Well-known member
Joined
Jun 11, 2007
Messages
34,397
MBTI Type
yupp
Time (ms)
Single task blocks (where you were only doing one thing)
Response time in Emotions block 520
Response time in Gender block 499
Switching block (where you were switching from one thing to the other)
Response time for Emotions just after switch 1020.85714285714
Response time for Emotions not after switch 849.8
Response time for Gender just after switch 1188.55555555556
Response time for Gender not after switch 757.555555555556
Overall
Cost of switching 301
Impulsiveness score (based on questionnaire) 92
 

Jack Flak

Permabanned
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Jul 17, 2008
Messages
9,098
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type
BS test. I'm sure someone got paid for it, so good show for them, but uh, i'm pretty sure this test has little to do with sex/emotion recognition in the wild.
 

scantilyclad

almost nekkid
Joined
Jul 31, 2007
Messages
2,106
MBTI Type
INFP
Enneagram
4w5
Instinctual Variant
so/sp
Single task blocks (where you were only doing one thing)
Response time in Emotions block 473
Response time in Gender block 458
Switching block (where you were switching from one thing to the other)
Response time for Emotions just after switch 804.454545454545
Response time for Emotions not after switch 681.916666666667
Response time for Gender just after switch 829.333333333333
Response time for Gender not after switch 712.416666666667
Overall
Cost of switching 120
Impulsiveness score (based on questionnaire) 79


i guess that is slightly above average, and i've never done drugs, except for occasional alcohol use.
 

millerm277

New member
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Feb 1, 2008
Messages
978
MBTI Type
ISTP
I got average, but...I was pretty terrible at the third part, accuracy should have counted as well. Not a drug user.
 

Negative_

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Feb 25, 2008
Messages
204
I got above average (between 280 and 380 for all of them) and unfortunately have not had the pleasure of using any of those substances yet.

Got all of the first two right, and about 1/3 of the third part wrong.
 

thelitteratti

New member
Joined
Oct 4, 2007
Messages
3
MBTI Type
INFP
below average, and i didn't even get them all right..

Single task blocks (where you were only doing one thing)
Response time in Emotions block 474
Response time in Gender block 433
Switching block (where you were switching from one thing to the other)
Response time for Emotions just after switch 878.142857142857
Response time for Emotions not after switch 813.785714285714
Response time for Gender just after switch 776
Response time for Gender not after switch 736.1
Overall
Cost of switching 52
Impulsiveness score (based on questionnaire) 86
 

Kyrielle

New member
Joined
Apr 26, 2007
Messages
1,294
MBTI Type
INFJ
Enneagram
4w5
Single task blocks (where you were only doing one thing)
Response time in Emotions block 378
Response time in Gender block 386
Switching block (where you were switching from one thing to the other)
Response time for Emotions just after switch 775.2
Response time for Emotions not after switch 665.6
Response time for Gender just after switch 733.384615384615
Response time for Gender not after switch 592.142857142857
Overall
Cost of switching 125
Impulsiveness score (based on questionnaire) 67


Other:

Slightly below average for gender recognition, slightly above average for emotion recognition. I had a few mistakes going fast, most of the time it was because both fingers hit the keys at the same time.

Don't use drugs, but I am quite tired.
 
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