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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: Scientologists recrui
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eli@wwa.com (Eli Lehrer)

>:hm@custard.bnsc.rl.ac.uk (Huw Morris) writes:
: >It consists of the entire 200 question personality test, and
: >an offer for the "Dianetics" book.
                                               
>Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
>: Incidentally, the "personality test" appears to be quite trivial.
>: Every tenth question is in the same category.  By comparing questions
>: within a category, you can readily work out what the "right" answer
>: is.  So you can score 100%, or 0%, or whatever you like.
>
>: When you take the test, they mark the scores for each category on
>: a chart, and join up the points with lines.  So by choosing the
>: answers carefully, you could get the graph to be a simple picture.


Eli:
>While this is a little tangental, this brings up an interesting question.
>I'd love to see what the clam's reaction would be if you answered the
>personality test in such a way that you proved that, according to the
>writings of L. Ron himself, you didn't need Scientology. I'd just like to
>see their reactions (ok, they'd probably just lie -- but it might be fun
>anyway.)
     
    Silly person.  Of course, the scienos would label you 
    "theedy-weedy".  This means that your reality level is too 
    low to even grasp how f*cked-up you are.  
    
    "We can handle that."

> Even though the test is rigged such that, as I understand, _everyone_
>needs scientology it seems reasonable that there might be a single right
>response pattern. Does such a pattern exist?
                         
    Sure.  It's called "theedy-weedy".

>Eli Lehrer -- eal8@cornell.edu or eli@wwa.com
 
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