I don't know how accurate this quiz is, because, I always liked Shane more than Rick. Kind of ironic, though.
Posted on 02/10/2014 9:28:29 PM PST by Kartographer
Get out your crossbows — it's time to know where you fit in the zombie apocalypse!
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I one of those zombies that had a sword stuck in their eye by Michonne.......
Data mining might be decades old, but the rate at which they collect and analyze data, and the accuracy with which they make predictions has made that old kind of data mining into cave paintings. About 10 years ago (keep that in mind, things have advanced MUCH further) Target got in trouble for how well their predictive algorithm works. They figured out that due to hormonal changes women who have gotten pregnant change their shopping habits, and what that change was, so they started sending maternity related coupons to pregnant customers, problem is their algorithm was so good they were sending these coupons to women (and teenage girls) before the WOMEN knew they were pregnant. This caused some concern, especially among the families of pregnant teens, so they had to ease off the program, they still do it but they hide it better now, they send generic looking circulars that just “happen” to have maternity clothes and lotion and all those other things pregnant women buy.
Even if you fight the cookies a lot is known about your computer and its travels on the internet. And most people don’t fight the cookies. And the cross level data is epic. This quiz asks which WB cartoon character you like most, somewhere out there is a list of stuff people that like Bugs Bunny buy more of than people who like Marvin the Martian, and that selection will change the popup ads you see. That’s the big change in data mining now, they now have access to enough cross referenced data that they know there are no innocuous unrelated choices, everything you do tells them something about what you’ll buy later today, and next week, and next month, and next year.
It said I am the zombie on a leash with its arms cut off.
Which Walking Dead character is the paranoid one. That’s your match.
My post was about this quiz, and so far it doesn’t seem to be an issue for me.
My post is about this quiz, and every other quiz on the web.
You’re one of Michonne’s “pets”?
Well thanks for telling me stuff that I already obviously know.
Actually you obviously DON’T know it. If you filled out that quiz you’d tell them all kinds of interesting stuff about yourself, they’ll know if you drink soda and what your favorite brand is, your brand of toothpaste, jeans or dockers, the whole gamut (and note, none of the questions seem to relate to any of that stuff). Of course the questions are helped out by the fact that as soon as you hit the quiz they know your computer type, OS, browser, and every website you’ve hit since starting the browser session (and that’s with cookies turned off), all of which they can relate even tighter to your products and brands. That’s the modern era of data mining, they’ve got the cross relational data sliced thin and accurate.
Didn't take this one; but, I have taken a couple of other quizzes like this and I always turn up as "Rick", too. Damn. I suppose it could be worse, we could come up as "Carl".
I write prepper articles on Survival Podcast website. The articles are the length of a book now. I'm pretty sure I am already tagged by Hussein's govn. as a possible domestic terrorist according to Homeland Security's already tagging preppers as such.
If the govn. wants to put me down as Michonne which taking the test said, that is the least of my worries. I have a machete that is really, really, long and that puts space between myself and a “walker” or a real human. I have a beautiful metal cane with a dragon head image on the top. Turn the dragon a half turn and pull out a sword. A cane like that is outlawed in some states, but not in Texas.
I prefer the machete and cane sword to dispatch the walkers as both weapons do not run out of bullets or arrows.
Great, I have attracted one of those.
Just telling you the truth. This is way bigger than watching your name get sold to mailing lists. It’s really interesting stuff, though creepy like I said at the start. Sorry you’re too cool to find this interesting, but you asked, I answered. If you weren’t gonna like the answer you shouldn’t have asked.
I'm much bigger than Daryl... Uglier too...
I clearly find it interesting, it is why I know so much about it and take an interest in how my computer is configured and even use codes and cautions in my mailing address and phones, etc.
You should have picked up on that, instead you decided to start posting everything you know about it to me.
Actually I DID pick up on it and referred to it:
Even if you fight the cookies a lot is known about your computer and its travels on the internet. And most people don’t fight the cookies.
And what I’ve posted is a miniscule fraction of what I know about it. All I did was explain the difference between modern data mining that these quizzes are of and the mail list tracking you referred to. And the fact that you still think how you configure your computer will change how a quiz like that puts your data in the mine shows you still don’t get it. And that you don’t want to. Bye.
I am Michonne. Could have done much worse.
Like I said, I have attracted one of those.
“Damn. I suppose it could be worse, we could come up as “Carl”.”
Or Lori.
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