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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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 Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject: Test your vocabulary |
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How large is your vocabulary? Take the test to find out!
www.testyourvocab.com
My result: 39,400 words.  |
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jinks
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Location: Formerly: Lower North Island
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:23 am Post subject: |
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38,400
I must have have gone through too fast and not properly clicked all the words I really knew - or something! |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:09 am Post subject: |
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Faulty test.
Who knows if the test-taker could actually accurately define all the words they check. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Faulty test.
Who knows if the test-taker could actually accurately define all the words they check. |
Yeah, I was actually hoping for a test test. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:57 am Post subject: |
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Re cheating on the test: they've thought about this issue and many others as you'll find if you browse their site.
http://www.testyourvocab.com/faq.php
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How do you make sure people aren't cheating? Won't this affect your results?
We try. On the last survey page (which asks about age, eduction, etc.), we specifically ask people not to fill it out if their answers have been less than truthful � and our results are based only on native English speakers who complete the survey.
But in any case, since our statistics are based on aggregate results, we expect that any level of "exaggeration" will affect all results, in a roughly equal or proportional way. And since it's not so much the absolute vocabulary numbers we're interested in, as much as the differences in results among groups, cheating shouldn't have too much of an overall effect. It might change the slopes or offsets of resulting graphs slightly, but shouldn't be expected to produce any qualitative differences.
Of course, your personal level of under- or over-confidence in word knowledge, compared to the public's as a whole, will affect your score comparison. But we're trying to make the survey easy, fun, and five minutes long, and therefore worth spreading around � instead of being a rigorous half-hour exam that guarantees no cheating. In the latter case, we might not have gotten any results at all. |
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