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A purity test attempts to gauge how "pure" you
are within some realm of experience by having you answer
a list of questions regarding which acts, etc.
associated with the subject you have engaged in.
Generally, for each "yes" answer you lose a
purity point. The result is scaled to tell you what
percentage of purity you still retain.
History
Purity tests have existed for ages, originally taking
the form of written lists of questions. With the advent
of the Net, it became popular to distribute them by
electronic means. Some were modified to be programs or
shell scripts which would ask you each question in turn,
and do the calculations for you when you were done. In
1989, Erich Lechner wrote a program that would do
the same thing using data files that described different
purity tests. He converted various purity tests to this
format and made the package available. Here's the manual
pagethat describes it.
In June 1994 I finally finished a pyrotechnics purity
test that I had begun working on during the same period
in which Eric wrote his program, and decided to make an
HTML version of it. I ended up writing a program to
convert purity test data files in the Lechner format
into HTML forms, and another program that the output of
the first can be sent to to provide the person taking
the test with a score, thus creating the first purity
tests on the web.
Checkbox Purity Tests
- Sex/General Purity Tests
- Geekishness/Technical Knowledge, etc. Purity Tests
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