Quiz show.

I'm not terribly busy this week and am recovering from post-filing exhaustion. So when a friend sent me this link to some sort of "personality test," I figured it would offer a nice afternoon diversion.

Upon clicking the link, I discovered that the test is aimed at sussing out my "personal attraction" factor, and is run by uber-cyber-yenta service Match.com. I'm certainly not out on the dating market, but in the interests of time wasting, I took the test anyway.

As it turns out, only 3% of all women (at least among the "over 10,000 women" who've taken the test) have personalities very similar to mine, and another 12% are somewhat similar. In other words, Match says my personality sets me apart from 85% of the internet-test-taking population. I admit to being rather pleased by this discovery, since I'd hate to learn that despite spending thirty-some-odd years cultivating my own array of quirks and neuroses, I'm just like all those other chicks.

Unfortunately, the test also reveals that only 2% of the male population is very attracted to my unique combination of personality traits. I can't remember if there are more boys than girls in my age cohort of singletons these days, but that's not a particularly reassuring statistic. Then again, Match says that 34% of men are "attracted" to my personality, and only 7% are completely turned off by my style.

I don't intend to lose any sleep over these results, nor do I plan to take any steps to make my personality more attractive to the 57% of the male population that apparently is "indifferent" to my traits. But I admit to taking a wee bit of solace in the fact that I'm not looking these days!