Taking a test like this online is kind of silly. It's supposed to test how your eyes see color, but every monitor displays colors differently. The light in the room and time of day also affects this (sunlight, warm or cool light bulbs, etc.). The viewing angle also changes how the colors appear. Tests like this have to be done from pre-printed samples under special "neutral" lights. Like the paint sample cards at the paint store can't tell you what the color will look like on your particular walls. None of you are crazy. I scored a zero, but might not if I took the test at a different time of day.

I think the likelihood is (putting on my very cloudy wizard's forecasting hat) is that there will be minimal Social Security benefits with greatly extended retirement ages put in. Currently retirement ages range from 65 to 68(?), depending upon when you were born. With life expectancies rising so quickly - the fastest growing group of people is the 80+ age group - retirement ages will start at age 70, at a minimum. You have to keep this in perspective. When people first started collecting Social Security, the average life expectancy past age 65 was a mere 7 years. The system was not designed to pay out for four decades because no one expected such an improvement in mortality over such a short period of time. Nowadays, if a couple retires at 65 in good health, the age of the SECOND person to die is an average 92 years. And that age is still lengthening over time as mortality stats continue to be collected. This is one of the reasons financial planners almost as a group unanimously went from recommending 5+% drawdowns from a retirement portfolio, to a more modest 3-4% annual draw. Otherwise, the assets won't last 30+ years. The Medicare system is in much worse shape. Bush's drug benefit may have been a political plus but it has proven costly and difficult to manage. The US spends twice as much money per capita on its healthsystem yet our mortality is very poor compared to its peers (see the NY Times July 17, 2008 article titled "U.S. Spends on Healthcare but Study Faults Quality" - the US ranks dead last in preventable mortality!). There are good and bad sides to nationalized medicine, but either way, there is not enough tax money to support both an increasingly unworkable healthcare and retirement system without some painful changes.

I got a 0 too! I drove DH nuts a few years ago trying to find the perfect shade of off white paint with the right undertones. They all looked the same to him. I imagine his score will be pretty high if I can get him to take the test. Online ColorIQ Challenge Results You have perfect color vision! Your score: 0 Gender: Female Age range: 30-39 Best score for your gender and age range: 0 Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520

In order to get my college degree I had to take business mathmatics, statistics and an algebra & trig class. In high school I took geometry & algebra to prepare me for college. I was hiking with someone a couple of weeks ago. They started talking about a Satyr. I said a what? Half goat, half man. I said a centaur....nooooooooooooooo......that's half horse. :0) Last night we rented the movie Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief. I asked DH didn't you take the test where you had to know the Roman gods names AND the Greek gods names. He asked, "What class was that?" It's ALL schooling and then remembering it. JMO