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This article lists details concerning a test issued by DharmaWantsYou.com on August 27.
This test is entitled: Broad Spectrum Knowledge Analysis.
Details[]
Test 2 Completion Screen
A painting of a Cyclops, possibly connecting to the "I" cheat
The second test released on DharmaWantsYou.com is entitled Broad Spectrum Knowledge Analysis. It consists of 9 randomly selected questions, dealing with a range of topics from various categories. In fact, there are well over one hundred question possibilities, a comprehensive list of which has been compiled here. Only one's score during their attempt is collected, depending on answers and time taken to complete. Multiple choice answers are also randomized, so even if one takes the test again and encounters the same question, the answer may have changed position from A to D, for instance (minimizing the effect of any guesswork on subsequent attempts). The final 10th question is fixed, having no logical answer. It asks,
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QUESTION 10 |
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"Cheat"[]
Like Test 1, this evaluation also includes a cheat function. It was noticed that the title for the test includes the letter "i" underlined in the word "analysis". On the final question, pressing "i" on the keyboard causes option C to flicker twice. Thus, it would appear that the correct answer to the final question is C.
Group names[]
After completing the test, users are placed in new groups, one of which is "Steropes", one "Polyphemus", and finally "Brontes". All three are Cyclopes in Greek mythology. Steropes and Brontes appear in Heriod's poem "Theogony" as two of three main Cyclopes. It is notable that rather than using the character Arges as the final group name, Polyphemus is instead used. He is mentioned separately in Homer's "Odyssey", and plays a pivotal role in the poem.
Trivia[]
Analysis of Questions[]
The following chart shows the statistical breakdown of the questions by references to their associated field of study. Note, the total references below is larger than the question pool, as some question cross multiple fields of study.
| SOCIAL SCIENCES | Geography | Political Science | World Leaders | Vexillology | Total | Percent | |||||
| # of References | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 48 | 29% | |||||
| MEDICINE | Anatomy | Blood | Diseases & Illness | Pharmacology | Fertility | First Aid | Surgery | Psychology | Genetics | ||
| # of References | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 17% |
| PHYSICAL SCIENCES | Measurements | Astronomy | Geology | Oceanography | Chemistry | Electricity | Mineralogy | Physics | |||
| # of References | 9 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 14% | |
| LANGUAGE ARTS | Literature | Grammar | Linguistics | ||||||||
| # of References | 9 | 9 | 8 | 26 | 15% | ||||||
| PERFORMING & FINE ARTS | Painting | Poetry | Music | Sculpture | |||||||
| # of References | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 11% | |||||
| BIOLOGY | Botany | Life Span | Marine Biology | Ornithology | Entomology | Mammalogy | Herpetology | Taxonomy | |||
| # of References | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8% | |
| RELIGION | Greek Mythology | Christianity | Buddhism | Hinduism | |||||||
| # of References | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6% | |||||
| Total | 168 |
Additionally, there were several references that are of special significance within the context of Lost.
| Lost Themes | Islands | Fathers | The Numbers |
| # of References | 21 | 5 | 2 |
The two occurences of The Numbers are in the following questions:
- "How often do you take medicine labeled Q.I.D.?" (Answer is "4 times a day")
- "What fraction of Earth's gravity is the Moon's gravity?" (Answer is "One-Sixth" or ~16%)
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