Take This Quiz to Find Out Your Chances of Survival
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I agree with your gripes, and so does this news report featured by the Escapist.SODAssault said:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/87231-Body-Found-Near-Barrie-May-Be-Missing-Gamer-UPDATED
This child ran away, climbed a tree, then fell out and died, and although he played a lot of Call of Duty 4, I doubt him being an online soldier lessened his chance of survival.
Like you, I think a lot of the "correct" answers are very dubious, and I hope no one actually takes them as fact... I pity the
Take this quiz [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/quizzes/result/84.59-Tourist]
Pfft, I got tourist. Still, 50/50 is better than nothing. I suppose.
Also, Russ Pitts got 100% on his first try in almost two minutes. If he wasn't looking at the answer book, I'd say he must be a lumberjack of incredible survival skills!
Pfft, I got tourist. Still, 50/50 is better than nothing. I suppose.
Also, Russ Pitts got 100% on his first try in almost two minutes. If he wasn't looking at the answer book, I'd say he must be a lumberjack of incredible survival skills!
Warning to Others... why am I so happy with this result?
Odd Quiz though, but I was happy with the final question.
Odd Quiz though, but I was happy with the final question.
That's actually one of the first stories that came to mind. I think some of the wrong "correct" answers can be attributed to jumping to conclusions based on other facts. For example, "70% of the body's heat escapes through the head, therefore, a hat would be the most sensible option to maintain one's body heat." Makes sense, but disregards all the other factors that would go into this, such as storage capacity (lot of pockets if you don't have a pack, which distributes weight and diminishes fatigue more effectively than carrying items by hand), available fabric (which can be made into bandages and used for a plethora of other means), camouflage factor (counter-productive when in need of rescue, but certainly more useful than the world's most invisible hat in a situation where evasion is necessary to keep living), a sun shield in a desert environment... you already know what I'm talking about.Jamash said:
I've gone an entire week with nothing but a hatchet, a survival manual and the clothes on my back, but I only scored a 60% on this, and then retook it many, many times. Partially because some of these weren't covered in my training (scouts aren't typically expected to survive a nuclear holocaust), but mostly because even after I'd narrowed it down, I'd gotten every question but one right multiple times because I refused to believe that the "correct" answer was "climb a goddamn tree".
The hat answer is particularly egregious. Although I got it right, I know that it's a myth, and not just for the reasons you list (storage capacity, etc.). The fact is, the "70% of heat is lost through the head" is just plain false: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/17/medicalresearch-humanbehaviour . The Escapist is doing a disservice to their readers in making them believe that a warm hat will be superior to a warm coat in a survival situation. Anybody who ever grew up in a cold climate (Minnesota here) could tell you that this bit of "advice" is just plain ridiculous.SODAssault said:
I'm a warning to others. But i'm epic at survivle games dammit ... you mean to say they're not true BLASFOMEY!
Anyone using this quiz to better educate themselves on wilderness survival is looking to be 'a warning to others.' While most of the criticisms I read are correct, the one question in the comments above that is being accused of wrong is the tent vs ground cover. While a tent has a piece of material separating you from the earth. I can tell you from personal experience, you will never be able to warm cold, wet ground. A ground pad or even tree branches that you keep off the ground will keep the earth from sapping your body heat. There are other errors within the quiz that I saw, but I would have to take notes of the quiz to address them one at a time and they will probably be addressed. Of course what do I know, I've only had soldier wilderness survival training, so a child climbing a tree drinking his own urine could survive better than myself. I must have just got lucky that one week I had to survive on my own.
I agree with everything you wrote, but you should know that the old "70% of heat is lost through your head" is completely bogus; see my other post here.SODAssault said:
This is the same I got, wasn't so sure on some but atleast I didn't bomb out completely.addeB said:Haha, I loved the holy grail reference!
You scored 45%! You're a...
Tourist
You can handle most crises and have a decent chance of making it through to the other side.
Tourist 45% first try
Yeah that sounds very wrong, I answered what you did too, I think.HK_01 said:
We're both in agreement, there. Given the choice between a hat and a jacket, you should take the jacket. I didn't really get my panties in a twist over that question, though, since it presented the unrealistic scenario of only having time to grab one. Total crap, but relatively harmless and not an overtly outrageous thing to say, seeing as how widely it's believed.BigBoote66 said:
Nailed it on the first try since I grew up being told by my parents that I should get a haircut because I'll die of heat exhaustion in summer due to some bogus made-up figure about all heat escaping through my head (really didn't even buy it as a kid), and figured it would be the right answer (considering the other questions).