hrmmm

Ok so those OKCupid tests were pretty useless. But this one that I just took was actually fascinating. Its the Ghenis Khan Genetic Fitness Test. The introduction is really interesting, in my opinion.

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=6936188936100731841

Paraphrased so you don't have to read it to understand, its all about how success at life on planet earth is all about propagating genetic traits, and by that standard Ghengis Khan is the most successful human. Then they test you to see your likelihood of living long enough (healthy, not smoking, etc), to have children, family history and fertility rates, etc. So my results?

273,290 descendants after 32 generations (which is the amount of generations Ghengis Kahn's family has had). I'm more genetically fit than 52% of the current population. Here's what they had to say:

"Not bad. You're no Mongol warlord, but to have that many copies of your genetic code running around 800 years from now is pretty impressive.

You're in the lower middle of the scoring spectrum, but, honestly, when you consider that the cheaters, swindlers, and football players of this world are statistically best-equipped to create children, scoring low is something to be proud of. As you'll see below, some of your lines will die out, but nonetheless your genetic material will thrive here on earth for a long time to come.

A close friend of mine created a program to generate family trees for this test. It's based on your unique answers. We accounted for sterility, birth rates, death rates, disease, drug abuse, nitwitism, and accidents and came up with this, for you:"

The family tree was interesting. It shows my three children will all make successful matches, but since it is only supposed to track by gender (ie: girls track matriarchal lines, guys patriarchal) one of my children's lines will end because they will have a male child, and another's lines will end in someone fitting the "sterile, malformed, incompetent, bungee-jumping, or otherwise genetically useless descendent" category. The third child has two kids, one of whom is also a bungee-jumper. After the third generation, the little people symbols get too small to really see, but I was counting, and I'm pretty sure the program accounted for all 273,290 of them. Hehehe. Anyway. I am done reporting on my descendents. Though... I kind of hope the world won't last for 32 more generations. Its going to pot already, I think it would be hell for the people alive 800 years from now. Anyway... maybe another interesting test is in order. I'll let you know.