Egocentricity Quotient
The directions are simple:
1) Answer the questions.
2) Add up your score. Use a pencil and paper if you have to.
3) Don't answer according to points. Negative numbers aren't necessarily bad nor positive numbers good.
The Questions
1) You're running late for a meeting, and you see someone's groceries fall out of his/her hands to the ground. You:
a) Help the person pick up his/her bags even though it'll make you more late. Add 1 point.
b) Give the person a sympathetic look and place a fallen orange back into one of the bags. Add 0 points.
c) Laugh hysterically. You're the one who'd bumped into the person in the first place. Subtract 1 point.
2) It's raining in New York City, and it's rush hour, and you need to hail a taxi-cab to get home. You've waited for five minutes, and an available cab has finally showed up... and so has another person who needs a taxi. You:
a) Let that person take the cab. Another one will come... eventually. Add 1 point.
b) Take the cab; you were waiting first and longer. Another one will come eventually for that other person. Add 0 points.
c) Kill that person so that there's no chance of him/her taking what's rightfully yours. Subtract 1 point.
3) You're on the prom committe. The group wants to do things one way; you, another. You:
a) Share your ideas without any expectation that they'll be taken in. The will of the group is what's important. Add 1 point.
b) Share your ideas and ask that the group be open to them; a compromise can be reached. Add 0 points.
c) Get everyone in the group suspended, somehow, so that you're the only one on the committe -- and whatever you say, goes. Subtract 1 point.
4) It's your birthday, but your best friend has forgotten and made a prior engagement with a relative. You:
a) Understand. You can get together with him/her the next day and celebrate it then. Add 1 point.
b) Understand, but ask if she/he can change her/his engagement with the relative so that she/he can spend your birthday with you. Add 0 points.
c) Say, "I'll never forgive you for this! I'll be seeking revenge. Just you wait." Subtract 1 point.
5) You've packed lunch for yourself, but on your way to work a homeless person asks if you have any food to spare. You:
a) Give the homeless person your lunch. So you'll starve... but only till dinner. The homeless person starves every day. Add 1 point.
b) Give the homeless person your drink but keep the sandwich. You can always drink water. Add 0 points.
c) Hit the homeless person over the head with your lunch and take whatever money she/he has made by begging. Subtract 1 point.
Scoring
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