This Gut Instinct Quiz Will Tell You If You're Truly Logical!

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
5 min
This Gut Instinct Quiz Will Tell You If You're Truly Logical!
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About This Quiz

Logic, though shared with many members of the animal kingdom, is what sets humanity apart as a species. Human logic is much more evolved than animal logic, enabling humans to store, analyze, and transmit knowledge and judgment throughout our species. Human logic is unique in how it learns and evolves. What animals possess may be called instinct, but not logic. 

Logic is the perfection of human thought, corrupted only by base biological instinct and human emotion. To have good logic is to be clear of mind and judgment, capable of the highest functions of the human race.

Many things stand in the way of pure logic. Our biological predilections are a haze, telling us things like "eat" and "sleep" that can stand in opposition to the pure logic that we crave. Our emotions, likewise, stand in opposition to logic, directing us to irrational conclusions about others' motivations, and the correctness of ours. This illogical interference can create a feedback loop capable of derailing pure thought and making humans act as irrationally on the job or in relationships as animals do during an eclipse.

How logical are you? In the fire of the moment, do you lean on what you makes you human or what makes you no different from a fox or a bird? How is your gut instinct? Take this quiz to find out.

If someone were to ask you what household dust is composed of, knowing there is a well-known urban legend around this, what would you say?
Human skin
Dirt
Stuff from outside
Dead insect parts, mostly
How do you decide when to go to the bathroom?
I just go when I feel I have to.
I wait until I really have to go.
I schedule times in the morning and the afternoon.
I go when there is a bathroom available.
When do you go food shopping?
When I run out of food
When I'm starving
Before I run out of food
I buy food for the week, online, at the same time every week.

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How do you drink to celebrate?
I have a few rounds, to be a good sport.
I must be the one who drinks the most!
I do not drink.
I have a round to show willing.
What is the first step you take in getting dressed in the morning?
Grab a pair of underwear
Grab a pair of socks
Choose entire outfit, lay it out, then put it on
Choose most of an outfit, lay it out, and put it on
When you are hungry and on the move, what do you do?
Grab a bag of pretzels or something
Chocolate!
I have fruit.
I try self control.

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When your computer malfunctions, what is the first thing you try?
Hit it
Yell at it
Disassemble it to find the fault
Power cycle it
How often do you sense people are lying to you?
Rarely
All the time
Frequently, but I don't think they know they are doing it
Frequently, but it doesn't bother me
How do you plan a journey across town?
I use Google Maps.
I ask for directions.
I get directions on my phone.
I start walking in the right general direction and look up directions on my way.

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What is your first thought if your flight is cancelled?
Get another flight!
I hate the airline.
I will complain to the airline.
I'd better get a hotel room.
If you suddenly needed a car to commute to work, how would you go about getting it?
I'd get the cheapest thing.
I'd get my dream car.
I'd get the best used car.
I'd get the best value for money.
What would you do if stranded in a strange town?
Check my phone
Cry
Ask a local
Look for public transportation

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Your phone is dead and your watch is broken. How will you find out the time?
The sun
Sun dial
Trigonometry, the date, latitude, and the length of shadows
Ask someone for the time
You forgot one of your morning ablutions when you left your home. What do you do now that you are halfway to work?
Stink, I guess
Freak out, then stink worse
Buy the necessary fix at the drug store and use it at work
Buy the necessary fix at the drug store and use it in the bathroom at work
Your investment portfolio has suddenly lost some value. How do you react?
Sell!
Sell it all!
Buy! Stocks are on sale!
Wait for bottom, then buy

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When someone runs up to you in public, claiming there is an emergency and that your help is needed, how do you react?
Ask what happened
Run away without a word
Try to assess the situation from their appearance
Assume there is a real emergency, but assess danger from the environment, not the person
How accurately can you predict the motives of others?
I'm right 100% of the time.
I never know.
I have calculated I am correct 96% of the time.
I know enough to know I'm not always right.
How effective are you in your private social interactions?
I think people like me.
I have no personal touch.
I'm slightly awkward around people.
I could manipulate like Rasputin, if I wanted to.

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How effective a communicator are you?
I'm fine, and everyone should understand me.
I'm a bit shy.
I am clear and honest. Blunt, even.
I communicate the important details, to keep things from getting derailed.
How accurately can you assess the importance of appearances?
Appearances aren't so important.
Appearances are all that matters.
Appearances aren't important.
Appearances are important, and say a lot about what's going on upstairs.
What is the core of your strategy to make your professional dreams a reality?
Bumble along
Be discovered
Work hard
Network hard

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How well can you predict the winner of America's Next Top Model from the first episode?
I'm okay.
I'm 24 for 24.
I'm unsatisfied with my average and I'm working on a system.
I get it right more than I get it wrong.
Are you a good gambler?
Not really
I'm the best!
I can play certain games that involve math.
Yeah; I know when to cash out.
Are you a comfortable negotiator?
I don't feel good when negotiating.
I'm the best negotiator.
I must know everything about both parties and the subject.
If I know my subject.

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How often do you reassess your old decisions?
Rarely
Never
Every day
Frequently
How often, in your reassessment about your old decisions, do you decide that you must have done the right thing?
Usually
Always!
Never
Occasionally
Looking back, how many of your past big decisions do you regret?
I regret some of them.
I regret all of them.
I regret most of them.
I regret none of them.

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How many of your regretful decisions resulted from spur of the moment decisions?
Most
All
None
About half
Do you fall in love quickly?
Yes, in hours
Yes, in moments
No, I never fall in love.
No, it takes a few meetings.
How long do you wait when the holiday sales begin?
A few days
I don't wait!
I don't go in for them at all.
I take a few days to run the numbers first.

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