It's Dark In There

[outofnapkins]

Vanity Fair has compiled 101 of their celebrity Proust Questionnaires (based on parlor games Proust played in his youth) into a book. The questions range from "What is your idea of perfect happiness?" and "What is your greatest fear?" to "What is the trait you most deplore in others?" and "How would you like to die?"

If you take the questionnaire

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[shirei_shibolim]

95.87% like Oscar de la Renta
85.28% like Jane Goodall

How are these things evaluated anyway? A machine can't understand my responses well enough to compare them to others'.

[outofnapkins]

I've been wondering about that. Maybe it scans for lists of keywords, but that sounds like more programming and planning than one would put into this sort of project.

I got similar results when I took it a second time. Though I suppose you'd have to buy the book to really find out.