![]() ![]() I understand that people probably aren’t going to stop taking purity tests, but I would encourage you all to be cognizant of how you interpret your results. Even if it’s taken as a joke most of the time, it’s creating this ludicrous notion of maturity – a notion that you may not even realize you buy into. I think that really sums up what’s so problematic about this test. Not only because one of the questions is “Have you ever engaged in beastiality?” but because it perpetuates an image of a respected college student as someone who is well versed in the use of substances, sexually active and with a criminal record.īefore you call me a bootlicker, let me say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with any level of consensual sexual activity or responsible use of substances, but there’s also nothing wrong with their absence, and no one should ever feel pressured into either.Īccording to the website, the Rice Purity Test is an “opportunity for O-week groups to bond, and for students to track the maturation of their experiences throughout college.” As my own eighth-grade health teacher taught me, peer pressure is rarely directed at you by your peers, it stems from an environment in which the drive to impress your peers is stronger than your judgment.ĭespite the blurb at the top of the page, some part of you is always going to want to treat the test like a bucket list to feel that twinge of pride. That’s where that good ol’ fashioned peer pressure comes in. No! It’s so low, you guys!” – but there’s always a twinge of pride in knowing that you’ve done more naughty things than someone else, to the point where it becomes a competition. People might feign embarrassment or breathless disbelief – “Oh, my God. Regardless, the result is that low scores on the Rice Purity Test are cool. There’s such a drive for men to seem experienced that guys lying about having sex has become a staple gag in sitcoms. When this mixes with the slurry of toxic masculinity that still courses through many of our veins, the effect intensifies. Maybe it comes from our crippling fear of the passage of time or the desperation to have as many experiences as we can before we’re thrown into the unknowability of the afterlife. ![]() Nobody wants to seem innocent or inexperienced. The connotation of the word “pure” is generally a good one, but when placed in the context of a college campus – especially among men – it’s not necessarily a label that’s sought after. One moment, while I step up onto my eighth-grade health teacher soapbox. It’s generally taken with friends who laugh about it and joke, but it might have more gravity than we think and it certainly represents a much larger problem: peer pressure. The Rice Purity Test isn’t a very serious thing for most people. That means questions like “Have you ever held hands romantically?” have the same weight in determining someone’s “purity” as “Have you ever used methamphetamine?” Right away, it’s easy to see some pretty major flaws in the test’s accuracy, but I’m not here to critique its methodology. The results are calculated by tallying up all the questions answered with a checked box for a total out of one hundred high scores representing high purity, and low scores the opposite. The idea is that a person’s score will give others an idea of their level of innocence, or purity. “Purity Tests” are actually a fairly old idea, having appeared as early as 1935 at Columbia University, but as their popularity exploded in the mid-80s, the Rice Purity Test became the most familiar. Though it originated at Houston’s Rice University, it has become increasingly popular all over the country, especially during quarantine. The Rice Purity Test: a denizen of late-night conversations in dorm lounges, unpleasantly long car rides and locker rooms around the country.įor those of you who may not know, the Rice Purity Test is an online quiz composed of one hundred very personal yes or no questions about a person’s sexual history, criminal record and experiences with drug and alcohol consumption. The smug little blurb at the top of the page is so cheeky they may as well have added a smirking face emoji. Completion of all items on this list will likely result in death.”
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There are several different varieties of money market instruments, but all have a few things in common. ![]() Money market instruments are used by corporations, governments, and individual investors seeking short-term funding or short-term places to invest money. ![]() This is a beautiful, affordable and well-constructed piece of optical goodness in a sturdy and relatively compact shell. The hood is 7/8'' long, adding about 3/4'' of length to the lens when attached. It does not reverse for storage on the lens, and attaches with a standard bayonet mount. The 35mm ƒ/1.4 R lens hood is made of metal, and can only be described as a circular hood with its sides squished in. There are no distance scales or depth-of-field information on the lens, but the X-Pro 1 offers a distance scale on its LCD or viewfinder readout. There is a slight amount of lens extension when the lens is focused. In practice this means the focusing ring will turn forever in either direction, and you'll have to rely on the readouts to know if you have reached minimum or maximum focus. Rather, turning the focusing ring moves the elements electronically. The X-Pro camera concept uses a fly-by-wire in its lens focusing method, so the focusing ring is not actually directly connected to the lens elements in a mechanical way. The focusing ring is about 3/4'' wide, made of polycarbonate with deep grooves that offer excellent tactile feel. We found the aperture ring a bit looser than we would like, which means if you like the be able to move quickly between settings, you'll be happy with this action. The aperture ring sits closer to the lens body, around 3/8'' wide, with click-stops between aperture settings. There are two rings for this lens: a focusing ring, and an aperture ring, something of a rarity in modern digital cameras. It's small and it isn't all that heavy (just 187 grams, or just over 6 oz), textured in a satin black finish. The Fuji XF 35mm ƒ/1.4 R is a well-built lens, harkening back to the days of metal rangefinder cameras. The 35mm ƒ/1.4 R only offers a magnification rating of 0.17x, making this less than ideal for macro work its minimum close-focusing distance is 28cm (just under a foot). The front element does not rotate, making life that little bit easier for polarizer users. The lens focuses from infinity to close-focus in less than a second: it's fast, and locks on to your target easily. The Fuji 35mm ƒ/1.4 R focus very quickly with an electrical motor housed in the lens. Results for distortion were very low for the 35mm ƒ/1.4 R there is just a hint of barrel distortion in the extreme corners. This reduces to a third of a stop at ƒ/2, and at all other apertures, corner shading is negligible. ![]() ![]() There is some light corner shading when the lens is used in the ƒ/1.4 aperture position in this case, the extreme corners are a half-stop darker than the center. When present, it will show as magenta fringing on areas of high contrast. Results for chromatic aberration were very good there's hardly any chromatic aberration to speak of, and it only becomes noticeable when the lens is stopped down to ƒ/16 or ƒ/22. Stopping down to ƒ/4 almost completely removes this corner softness (you'd have to peep pretty closely to see any softness at all, really, depending on your subject), and improvements are very small until the image is essentially tack-sharp across the frame at ƒ/5.6.ĭiffraction limiting appears to set in at ƒ/8, but there's no appreciable loss of image sharpness until ƒ/16, or ƒ/22. Stopping down to just ƒ/2 offers a significant improvement: central sharpness is excellent, and corner softness is dramatically improved. When used wide open at ƒ/1.4 there is some significant corner softness, but in the central part of the image we do note some very good results. The 35mm ƒ/1.4 R is capable of very sharp images, but for maximal image sharpness the lens must be stopped down to ƒ/5.6. |