Some Very Scientific Questions

In pursuit of anecdotal evidence to satisfy my scientific curiosity, please answer me these questions three:

1.) Please rate your level of carsickness at the end of a windy canyon drive (you are not the driver):
a. I feel awesome
b. I'm a little icky
c. Bucket, please
d. Just shoot me now

2.) Please rate your level of carsickness at the end of an 8 hour drive over well maintained and mostly straight freeways (again, you are mostly not the driver)
a. I feel great
b. A bit tired
c. I want to hurl, but I know I won't
d. I already did

3.) When you play balance games on Wii Fit, how well do you usually score?
a. Ninja
b. Three out of four stars
c. Balanced
d. Loser

I'll tell you my theory after I know if I'm right, if you haven't already figured it out, that is.
Thanks!

That's My Kind of Failure!

One month ago I took a Praxis II test for Social Studies. Contrary to popular belief, it is not a practice test. It is the teacher equivalent of the bar exam. Except that this is my third one. And I still have to take one more. Anyway, the social studies one was pretty beastly, as in it was a very poorly written test. I also thought I had failed it, so I wondered if my critique was fair. Now that I have a gold embossed certificate declaring me the nation's top scorer, I feel qualified to criticize that sorry excuse for test writing.

What was not the second most important objective of the Crimean War? Anyone? Bueller? How about analyzing the effect of the French Revolution on the Mexican national anthem? If history's not your forte, try naming the three areas of the brain most involved in processing economic thought. In descending order. Anyway, the point is, the test did what all multiple choice tests do: it completely disregarded the test takers' content knowledge (which is ironic because the name of the test is Social Studies: Content Knowledge) and measured only the candidate's multiple choice testing skills. So thank you, federally mandated testing monopoly. Thank you for charging me two hundred dollars to tell me that I am a perfect test taker. Guess I'd better go update my resume!