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Internet Addiction!

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:31 am
by Ichyro
http://www.netaddiction.com/resources/internet_addiction_test.htm


I love internet tests!

I got 35...

You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.

This is serious, by the way. :D

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:29 am
by Mummu
hmm 19 and i m an average user too, but they say average starts with 20.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:10 am
by Lauri
Hang on, whoa whoa whoa.

What's this "offline" stuff?

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:19 am
by Ichyro
You've heard of a past realm of elves *Sighs sadly*, dragons, fairies and sorcerery, right?

Its like that, except with crazy people and wars without points where the enemy cheats and hacks like hell.


Don't worry little one, you won't have to ever fenture out there! :D

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:35 am
by Lazyimperial
64? you should strongly consider the impact technology has on your sexual and social life? Hey, back off internet addiction test. :evil: lol

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:19 pm
by Firia
hee!
35! ^_^

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:29 pm
by Redningsmand
score 48

You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage. :D

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 4:15 pm
by Jassel
Score 33: You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage.


hehe.. That's a pretty good test :)

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 4:47 pm
by Tarryk
Took this about a year ago. Don't remember the exact score, but it was the "average online user"....I think things have changed a bit since then...we'll see

...but I'm not taking the test during work hours, hehe. :)

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:10 pm
by Coltess
33 - But what is all this off-line stuf??? I'm never off-line... Silly test

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:03 pm
by Tacz
64
You are experiencing occasional or frequent problems because of the Internet. You should consider their full impact on your life.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:06 pm
by Gridfan
lol 17 here. but the entire test sounds like it's intended for modem users,
those of us that are always online and with fixed rates tend to be "on" more frequently but shorter length of time each "session".

I definetly should have had like 70+ on this test, but instead I ended up with 17, due to all the no comply, just shows the test is flawed.

As a test, choose 5 on the first two questions, then no comply on all the rest. you end up with a score of 10.
Which is wrong, this test lacks modifiers to the questions that's added if there is a no-comply etc.

Let's see, I got 17. let me see if I can re-calculate this properly.
My 17 with weight modifiers should really be ah 37.7 is my final score. hmm tought it would have been higher. hmmmm.

Here's how to correct all that no comply stuff.

Count how many answers you DID answer on.
In my case I answered on 9 and had 11 no-comply.
Do this math:

20 / number of answers = modifier

result * modifer = actual result.


In my case I answered 9 questions (the other 11 was no comply, thus 0)
and got a score of 17, so:

20 / 9 = 2.2222222222222222222222222222222

17 * 2.2222222222222222222222222222222 = 37.777777777777777777777777777774


Naturally, since most (conciesouly (sp?) or not) tend to pick on average one answer lower than it really is. (one rarly feel one overdo anything your self.
So myself I add this to the new answer.
37.777777777777777777777777777774 + 20 = 57.777777777777777777777777777774

Which puts me in the 50 -79 points: You are experiencing occasional or frequent problems because of the Internet. You should consider their full impact on your life.

Which sounds more believable as I'm a heavy "netter".
Or rather, I spend more time with my computer than I do wit the net so, this test isn't really that valid for me lol :P


For you math buffs here is the formula:

(score * (20 / number of answered questions) ) + 20 = final score

Naturally this formula isn't perfect as those that answer 5 on all questions end up way above 100 but heh. THAT may be accurate as well lol...

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:23 pm
by Gridfan
http://emsai.net/gsp/addictiontest.html

Check this link, I modified/improved the test.
it now has modifiers to compensate in the cases where no comply is used
so that the weight of answers vs number of questions is still there.
I also added answer emphasis due to human self image nature,
also a slight shift of result bias, pluss I added a lil surprise hehe...

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:55 pm
by Nexeus
Okay!!!

Sure... so originally I got a 38 which says "You are an average on-line user. You may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but you have control over your usage." But thanks to gridfan I got a 54 "You are experiencing occasional or frequent problems because of the Internet. You should consider their full impact on your life." Now to be honest I am going to do some math here... this may hurt...

But I figure that I lay inbetween the two, so I'm going to take the average of the two scores (38+54 divided by two) and get 46. Then I am going to multiply this by .5 to give myself a margin of error of 5 percent thus making this score and then add and subtract that to both sides giving me a range of 23-69 which is more reasonable. Only because there are some days I don't want to go online and other times I do.

And this may make no sense what so ever it's just appearing my damn happy heart because I'm soo wired into the net, I see the code pass through me and feel it in my fingers :-P

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:40 pm
by Coltess
Gridfan! Spend more time online, and less time editing weird websites! :wink:

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 9:28 pm
by Ashval
I'm not going to bother and just admit I have a big problem. :P

*races off to the other 50 websites he has to check on a daily basis*

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 11:50 pm
by Tarryk
With Gridfan's test: 66

"You are experiencing occasional or frequent problems because of the Internet. You should consider their full impact on your life."

Okee dokee.

*takes a moment to consider their full impact on his life...*

Ahhh. I feel much better. Now for some surfin', BBSin', and gamin'.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:27 am
by Tristalyn
... my score was a 71 :(

PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:30 am
by Nexeus
Tristalyn wrote:... my score was a 71 :(


It's okay Tristalyn I'm still avaliable regardless of how much time you spend on the net.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:56 am
by Mummu
hmmm with griddies version i get:
45.714285714285715
i didnt wnated to know it THAT exact :)