most bizarre interview moment?

[T15]

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Two of my awkward moments would have been:
School A with a M3: It says here you graduated before me.
Me: Well yes I took some time off
M3: So you are older than me.
Me: I guess... go on to explain I am glad with my choice of taking time off, but still thrown off at being told I am old, when I am 24.

School B: I am from warm weather and had a new scarf I got as a gift and had not worn yet, nice red baby alpaca than looked good with my black suit. Now I had to walk a ways in the cold rain to get to my interview and had the scarf warped around my face. I showed up a bit late due to getting lost so I just pulled off the scarf and smiled and held out my had to say hello, no chance to clean up before the interview. Well after the interview I noticed that the red scarf had shed all over my face and suit and I even had bright red threads in my teeth.

 

[Slade]

Two of my awkward moments would have been:
School A with a M3: It says here you graduated before me.
Me: Well yes I took some time off
M3: So you are older than me.
Me: I guess... go on to explain I am glad with my choice of taking time off, but still thrown off at being told I am old, when I am 24.

School B: I am from warm weather and had a new scarf I got as a gift and had not worn yet, nice red baby alpaca than looked good with my black suit. Now I had to walk a ways in the cold rain to get to my interview and had the scarf warped around my face. I showed up a bit late due to getting lost so I just pulled off the scarf and smiled and held out my had to say hello, no chance to clean up before the interview. Well after the interview I noticed that the red scarf had shed all over my face and suit and I even had bright red threads in my teeth.

🤣 oh god, I'm so sorry 🤣

 

[pianola]

Two of my awkward moments would have been:
School A with a M3: It says here you graduated before me.
Me: Well yes I took some time off
M3: So you are older than me.
Me: I guess... go on to explain I am glad with my choice of taking time off, but still thrown off at being told I am old, when I am 24.

Haha, I was totally waiting for this to happen to me.

 

[thewendster]

One of my interviews said to me: I see you come from an artistic background.. so since artists tend to be anti-authoritative, liberals with loose morals, how are you going to be able to handle yourself in a professional clinical setting?

 

[JuniperK]

I had an interview at Albert Einstein where the guy spent 85% of the time telling me about the three great interviewees he'd ever had.😕 Didn't make me feel inadequate at alllll

 

[ngkats]

Right. So this isn't that good compared to others on this tread but here goes

Up until this one interview in December, every previous interviewer had asked me to describe my weaknesses. Going through 4 previous interviews with this question asked every time, I was basically an expert on describing what's wrong with me (in the best way possible). So walking into this new interview, I was more than ready for this question.

About half-way through the interview...

Interviewer: What are your strikes?

So I think to myself: strikes!? hmmm. what does that mean? Oh I get it! I think he's trying to ask me what my weaknesses are. what a strange way to phrase a 'what are your weaknesses question.' but here goes anyway.

So I go on describing my weaknesses. He's pretty much writing down everything I said. But in between writing my points down he stares at me with a blank expression. blah blah. I go on for about 5 minutes.

Once I'm done (like I said, it's been 5 minutes without him saying a word) there's a long moment of silence and he stares at me like I'm an idiot.

Interviewer: I said 'what are your STRENGTHS.'

ME: Wait what? You did?

Interviewer: I said it TWICE.

ME: (face most likely turns bright red. and I want to jump out this guy's office window). Oh. Um. I'm sorry. So, my strengths are...

So in my demented head, I was so prepared for this stupid weakness question that my brain heard "strikes" when it was supposed to be "strengths." holy cow.

I did the best I could and buttered this guy up by indulging him and asking about his research for the last 20 mins of the interview.

Result: ACCEPTED.

 

[JackInTheBox]

Right. So this isn't that good compared to others on this tread but here goes

Up until this one interview in December, every previous interviewer had asked me to describe my weaknesses. Going through 4 previous interviews with this question asked every time, I was basically an expert on describing what's wrong with me (in the best way possible). So walking into this new interview, I was more than ready for this question.

About half-way through the interview...

Interviewer: What are your strikes?

So I think to myself: strikes!? hmmm. what does that mean? Oh I get it! I think he's trying to ask me what my weaknesses are. what a strange way to phrase a 'what are your weaknesses question.' but here goes anyway.

So I go on describing my weaknesses. He's pretty much writing down everything I said. But in between writing my points down he stares at me with a blank expression. blah blah. I go on for about 5 minutes.

Once I'm done (like I said, it's been 5 minutes without him saying a word) there's a long moment of silence and he stares at me like I'm an idiot.

Interviewer: I said 'what are your STRENGTHS.'

ME: Wait what? You did?

Interviewer: I said it TWICE.

ME: (face most likely turns bright red. and I want to jump out this guy's office window). Oh. Um. I'm sorry. So, my strengths are...

So in my demented head, I was so prepared for this stupid weakness question that my brain heard "strikes" when it was supposed to be "strengths." holy cow.

I did the best I could and buttered this guy up by indulging him and asking about his research for the last 20 mins of the interview.

Result: ACCEPTED.

I would have said "My greatest strength? That would obviously be my listening comprehension and attention to detail," while giving the biggest ****-eating grin I could manage 😀

 

[virusgirl]

"Summarize Islam."

WTF?!?!?!

 

[mmagnett]

I was drinking coffee and it went into my lungs and i nearly spit it all over the interviewer -- luckily, I held it in!!!!!

 

[mmagnett]

One of my interviews said to me: I see you come from an artistic background.. so since artists tend to be anti-authoritative, liberals with loose morals, how are you going to be able to handle yourself in a professional clinical setting?

wow. what a mean person, how can you make generalizations like that.

 

[muggle911]

"Summarize Islam."

WTF?!?!?!

Was this out of nowhere or did you mention something about Islam earlier in the interview?

If it was a random q, then that's aweful since I know interviewers are not supposed to ask q's about religion.

 

[starfishprime]

"Summarize Islam."

WTF?!?!?!

Not a bad answer. You could also go with "anti-intellectual superstition."

Oh, and before someone goes off on me for being racist, the above is also my answer for "Summarize Christianity."

Oh, and before someone goes off on me for being anti-religion... actually feel free.

 

[virusgirl]

Was this out of nowhere or did you mention something about Islam earlier in the interview?

If it was a random q, then that's aweful since I know interviewers are not supposed to ask q's about religion.

He had asked me what books I was reading, and I mentioned that I'd read both of Khaled Hosseini's novels recently. Apparently enjoying fiction set in Afghanistan means I am an expert on Islam 🙂

I did get accepted though!

 

[viscous]

Not a bad answer. You could also go with "anti-intellectual superstition."

Oh, and before someone goes off on me for being racist, the above is also my answer for "Summarize Christianity."

Oh, and before someone goes off on me for being anti-religion... actually feel free.

that explains your low gpa at 3.34. have seen extremist Muslims with 4.0s.

 

[KeyzerSoze]

that explains your low gpa at 3.34. have seen extremist Muslims with 4.0s.

Interesting. Studies show that atheists have higher IQ's than religious people.

 

[k4med]

I interviewed at DMU last week and the interview was already not going well (the PhD interviewing me hated me from the start because of my supposedly "spotty and sporadic" academic record). The RN who was interviewing me was obviously trying to salvage the situation and asked me what the lastest book I had read was. I told her that I was really into novels and short stories by Eli Weitzel, who writes about the Holocaust and how many Holocaust survivors find it difficult to function in later life and form meaningful bonds with other people. When I finished giving a summary of the books I had read, she looked straight at me and said,

"So... you think the Holocaust actually happened?"

My response: "Ummm, yeah."

Her: "Oh, I see."

WTF????

 

[doctor712]

I interviewed at DMU last week and the interview was already not going well (the PhD interviewing me hated me from the start because of my supposedly "spotty and sporadic" academic record). The RN who was interviewing me was obviously trying to salvage the situation and asked me what the lastest book I had read was. I told her that I was really into novels and short stories by Eli Weitzel, who writes about the Holocaust and how many Holocaust survivors find it difficult to function in later life and form meaningful bonds with other people. When I finished giving a summary of the books I had read, she looked straight at me and said,

"So... you think the Holocaust actually happened?"

My response: "Ummm, yeah."

Her: "Oh, I see."

WTF????

Not being a harda-s, but make sure during your next interview you spell it Elie Weisel. (pronounced - vee zel). Especially since you're a fan of his work! 🙂 But anyway, if you come across any other holocaust deniers during med school interviews, just have Wiesel's phone number handy and ring him up if he's still at B.U. and give Wiesel said med school interviewer's name. You won't get into that med school, but Dr. Mel Gibson will learn a thing, or two.

I'm also not certain that this Doctor was screwing with you or not, regardless, I say this is pretty poor taste. And that's where I'll leave it. If I was in an especially giddy mood that day, and didn't care about that school (maybe with an acceptance in hand) I'd have clarified whether or not that was a joke, and if the doc would have assured me that it wasn't, I'd have ripped this Doc up. If he said it was a test after I ripped him up I would have said, "Well, that's my reply to your test. I stand by it." And then I would frame the acceptance letter from that med school. Because that's the reply he/she was asking for.

D712

 

[MonkeyChow]

Interesting. Studies show that atheists have higher IQ's than religious people.

Really? What studies? I would be very interested to see them.

 

[DocDrakeRamoray]

Except that my interviewer was an old man who was retiring from the medical school at the end of the month, he had to be 70. So I was out in the lobby when he comes out to escort me into the interview room, he shuts the door and I let him sit down first naturally. We begin to speak and my application blah blah blah when out of nowhere the old guy farts....I'm not talking like "must have been the chair sweaking" or "my leather shoes must have rubbed against each other" one could CLEARLY tell this man had ripped. What made it even worse was the fact that the room was closed and had no A/C.

I sat smoldering in that dutch oven for over an hour and all I got was this lousy waitlist letter.

 

[viscous]

Interesting. Studies show that atheists have higher IQ's than religious people.

measuring human intelligence by using the means made by humans themselves? Surprisingly, the first "true" scientist Ibn-al-Haitham was a devout Muslim.

 

[Jemainelover]

Wow this was a beast of a thread to go through. Totally worth the distraction from my homework. Thanks for the great read and I hope to have some stories of my own to contribute someday.

 

[Handy388]

When I was interviewing at a top 20 school, my tour guide was a non-trad lady who looks like she's in her late 30s. She told us that she quit her coporate job to answer to the higher calling of medicine.

We got into a conversation, and when she asked me what I wanted to do, I told her I want to do transplant surgery.

She stared at me coldly and said "So you just want to make money?"

Of course, she probably didn't know that transplant surgery requires a 5 years fellowship after 7 year General surgery residency and pays less than general surgery in a private practice setting and requires grueling work scedule.

I like the science behind it, and I find her comment to be pretty rude.

It's incredibly unsettling to be told something so negative in a setting where you feel you are being judged.

 

[ParthVader]

Not being a harda-s, but make sure during your next interview you spell it Elie Weisel. (pronounced - vee zel). D712

Its actually pronounced (why zel). [been to one of his lectures.. hard as hell to get in (he's a professor at BU)]

 

[jason3278]

One of my interviews said to me: I see you come from an artistic background.. so since artists tend to be anti-authoritative, liberals with loose morals, how are you going to be able to handle yourself in a professional clinical setting?

🤣

 

[student1799]

I interviewed at DMU last week and the interview was already not going well (the PhD interviewing me hated me from the start because of my supposedly "spotty and sporadic" academic record). The RN who was interviewing me was obviously trying to salvage the situation and asked me what the lastest book I had read was. I told her that I was really into novels and short stories by Eli Weitzel, who writes about the Holocaust and how many Holocaust survivors find it difficult to function in later life and form meaningful bonds with other people. When I finished giving a summary of the books I had read, she looked straight at me and said,

"So... you think the Holocaust actually happened?"

My response: "Ummm, yeah."

Her: "Oh, I see."

WTF????

If this happened to me, I wouldn't have addressed it directly during the interview, but I would have gone straight to the dean's office afterward and asked for a re-interview with someone else. ("I'd like another interview, because Nurse X said something that I don't think was appropriate, and it made me extremely uncomfortable." Then relate the incident if they ask, which they probably will.) At least in theory, you have a right to do this at any school where the interviewer blatantly violates decorum with highly inappropriate behavior or remarks.

In practice, as we all know, applicants almost never complain about incidents like these. But I think this RN deserved it, and I'm not even Jewish. If she truly believes the Holocaust never happened, I'm sorry--the woman is out on the lunatic fringe. And if she was just trying to "test" your reaction by pretending to think that, it goes WAY over the line. For all she knew, you could have relatives who died in the Holocaust.

 

[diosa428]

Of course, she probably didn't know that transplant surgery requires a 5 years fellowship after 7 year General surgery residency and pays less than general surgery in a private practice setting and requires grueling work scedule.

🙄
Transplant fellowship is 2 years, not 5 - unless you were planning on doing it 2.5 times? Additionally, the majority of gen surg residencies are 5 years. Very few academic centers still require the 7 year track. Perhaps you should find out a little bit more about your future specialty before you go around lecturing people about it.

 

[DrSno]

Really? What studies? I would be very interested to see them.

I thought everyone knew about those studies by now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence That lists many sources but there are even more if you want to look for them.

From the article: Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQs tend not to believe in God," Lynn said to Telegraph.co.uk

"His results, published in the scientific journal Intelligence demonstrated that on average, Atheists scored 1.95 IQ points higher than Agnostics, 3.82 points higher than Liberal persuasions, and 5.89 IQ points higher than Dogmatic persuasions."

So atheists>agnostics>christians>evangelicals. That's really not surprising at all is it?

 

[wjdghks]

I thought everyone knew about those studies by now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence That lists many sources but there are even more if you want to look for them.

From the article: Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQs tend not to believe in God," Lynn said to Telegraph.co.uk

"His results, published in the scientific journal Intelligence demonstrated that on average, Atheists scored 1.95 IQ points higher than Agnostics, 3.82 points higher than Liberal persuasions, and 5.89 IQ points higher than Dogmatic persuasions."

So atheists>agnostics>christians>evangelicals. That's really not surprising at all is it?

Awesome. Just confirms what I thought all along.

 

[GoSpursGo]

I thought everyone knew about those studies by now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence That lists many sources but there are even more if you want to look for them.

From the article: Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQs tend not to believe in God," Lynn said to Telegraph.co.uk

"His results, published in the scientific journal Intelligence demonstrated that on average, Atheists scored 1.95 IQ points higher than Agnostics, 3.82 points higher than Liberal persuasions, and 5.89 IQ points higher than Dogmatic persuasions."

So atheists>agnostics>christians>evangelicals. That's really not surprising at all is it?

Seriously... do you just try to make sweeping generalizations that you know a lot of people would find offensive just to get a rise out of people?

 

[KeyzerSoze]

BTW, when I originally mentioned that stat, I had no intention of insulting religious people. However, viscous' statement that starfishprime's GPA is low because he is an atheist rather than a fundamentalist (Muslim) was so absurd that I felt I had to comment.

Can we allow this thread to revert to its awesomeness now?

 

[starfishprime]

Seriously... do you just try to make sweeping generalizations that you know a lot of people would find offensive just to get a rise out of people?

Do you think that taking offense makes it less true?

 

[ButImLETired]

Ugh, I hate preachy, intolerant atheists as badly as I hate preachy, intolerant religious people. Live and let live people!

BACK to the fun thread, please?!

 

[GoSpursGo]

BTW, when I originally mentioned that stat, I had no intention of insulting religious people. However, viscous' statement that starfishprime's GPA is low because he is an atheist rather than a fundamentalist (Muslim) was so absurd that I felt I had to comment.

Can we allow this thread to revert to its awesomeness now?

Fair enough, and I wasn't taking issue with your response, just the cocky manner that Sno threw that out there... this isn't the first thread where he makes wild generalizations out of nowhere.

Do you think that taking offense makes it less true?

Ugh, I hate preachy, intolerant atheists as badly as I hate preachy, intolerant religious people. Live and let live people!

BACK to the fun thread, please?!

This. Feel free to believe whatever you want, just don't go out of your way to put down other peoples' beliefs. SDN is the only place I know where people can be having a completely sane, unrelated conversation when suddenly someone decides to take a pot-shot at religion completely out of the blue just to pat themselves on the back for their "superior" worldview.

*sigh* Sorry for helping to derail the thread. /rant

 

[DrSno]

just the cocky manner that Sno threw that out there... this isn't the first thread where he makes wild generalizations out of nowhere.

In your opinion. The generalizations that I make are fairly well known to most people and based in reality.

 

[GoSpursGo]

In your opinion. The generalizations that I make are fairly well known to most people and based in reality.

🙄

Let's please get this thread back on track.

 

[DrSno]

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[virusgirl]

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[virusgirl]

Sorry, didn't realize we were back on track now. 🙂

 

[GoSpursGo]

😀 This wikipedia link also says, and I quote: "Atheists were third highest in the study overall, behind Jews and Anglicans."

No, really... let's get this thread back on track. I'm sure everyone has some great "one-last-thing" they want to throw out there... just don't. You're not going to win, one way or the other.

 

[virusgirl]

True. I retract.

 

[Jss1545]

by a psychiatrist asked of my roommate... "so what psychosexual stage do you think you are trapped in?"

 

[medhearter]

just bringing sexy (or should i say this thread) back...

Interviewer: What is this Raaeeiikii?
Me: You mean Reiki? Well its this japanese....
Interviewer: No... I mean Raeeekii
Me: *puzzled, pauses breathing, questioning look on face*
Interviewer: Isn't it Japanese?
Me: well. yes. yes it is
Interviewer: And in japanese.. its Raaaeeekiiii
Me: you know. you might just be right. My teacher always pronounced it "Reiki" and i only ever heard it pronounced as "Reiki" but. you might be correct!
Interviewer: ...


later in the interview:
Interviewer: So what's the offside rule in soccer?
Me: *puzzled, pauses breathing, questioning look on face* the... offside rule?
Interviewer: You DONT know what the offside rule is??
Me: I'm sorry?.. Maybe I'm not familiar with the terminology?
Interviewer: You play soccer?
Me: Yes. Yes I do. But I'm just not quite sure what you mean. Maybe if you described it to me? I might catch on? Hints?
Interviewer: I can't give you a hint! You have to know what it is! (lol) Ask your coach when you get back to *insert hometown here*
Me: okay..

later in the interview:
*interviewer gets up out of seat, turns on screen, looks up offside rule on google, explains it to me via a diagram
Me: but... why are these people taking passes in the crease?
Interviewer: what do you mean? they can do whatever they like so long as they're..
Me: ah
Interviewer: what?
Me: see. the way I've played it
Interviewer: you mean up in *insert hometown here*
Me: yes. we didn't enter the crease unless we were carrying the ball. maybe thats to make up for not having an offside rule?
Interviewer: thats a strange way to play soccer. it must be the *insert nationality here* soccer
Me: well... maybe
Interviewer: but there is no such thing as *insert nationality here* soccer. Me: ...?
Interviewer: Soccer is a British game
Me: well... really ... the british game isn't called soccer at all!
Interviewer: Oh right. its football. but anyway talk to your coach

Turned out there are no offsides in indoor soccer

The rapport, initially anxiety-creating, turned out alright... I hope!

 

[aRnonymous]

I loved reading this thread, but now its my turn to contribute 🙂 I was interviewing at a school that does two one hour interviews. My first interview was with a psychiatrist and the second with an ob/gyn

My first interview went great, none of those horror stories that some people tell of interviewing with psychiatrists. In fact it went so well that we went over the allotted time and I ended up being five minutes late for my next interview. Naturally I'm panicking about making a bad impression by arriving late, but when I make it to the next interview (in a totally different building) I am told that my doctor is on call today and that she will be down shortly

So the ob/gyn doctor rushes into the room, still decked out in scrubs and a cap and says hi to me. We go to her office where she starts asking me the standard questions. I was a little uneasy about saying something wrong since she was literally writing EVERYTHING down. After I would answer a question there would be a ten or so second pause while she was writing. Then there were also times when she simply got bored with what I was saying and in the middle of my answer she would interrupt me and change the topic. About fifteen minutes into the interview her pager goes off. She tells me to hold on a second and makes a phone call. Next thing I know she is being called upstairs and tells me to come with her!

So here we are rushing through the halls. All the while she is flipping through my file and asking me questions. When we finally get to the department we pull up two chairs and set them in the middle of the hallway by the room that her patient was in. So why was she called up? Well, because her patient was delivering! She would basically interview me for ten or fifteen minutes then go in the room for ten minutes or so to check up on the patient. This happened several times. Every time she would go in the nurses would walk by me, wink, and give me a thumbs up

She ended up delivering the baby during our interview. It would have been the icing on the cake if she told me to put scrubs on and come in to the room with her! Even so, the grandmother came up to me later while the doctor was still inside the room and asked me a barrage of panicked questions, so I sat there reassuring her. When all was said and done we went back down to her office and talked for another twenty minutes or so. When I say talked, I mean she grilled me with some notorious ethical questions about malpractice and the like. So my one hour interview ended up lasting two hours, which almost made me miss my flight. But I guess I must have handled myself well in such an awkward situation since I got accepted 👍

 

[Tiare208]

I actually DID get to put on scrubs and follow a Chief Anesthesiologist for one of my interviews. It was crazy.

 

[catullus]

During the general Q&A with all the interviewees at one interview, the dean asked me what my favorite kind of music was. Having lived in east Africa for the last year, I said "east African pop." The dean then _asked me to sing something_. Without thinking too much about it, I began singing something. When the dean asked me to translate it, I realized that the song I had been singing was actually incredibly inappropriate. I politely excused myself from translating it, saying that it "wasn't completely appropriate for this setting" or something like that and turned bright red. 😱 Bet I won't get into that school!

 

[thegetupkid]

just bringing sexy (or should i say this thread) back...


Interviewer: So what's the offside rule in soccer?
Me: *puzzled, pauses breathing, questioning look on face* the... offside rule?
Interviewer: You DONT know what the offside rule is??
Me: I'm sorry?.. Maybe I'm not familiar with the terminology?
Interviewer: You play soccer?
Me: Yes. Yes I do. But I'm just not quite sure what you mean. Maybe if you described it to me? I might catch on? Hints?
Interviewer: I can't give you a hint! You have to know what it is! (lol) Ask your coach when you get back to *insert hometown here*
Me: okay..

Haha I was about to say you defs don't play soccer if you don't know what the offside rule is. I would have asked you to leave the room for lying on your amcas if i were the interviewer

 

[radxbandit]

Haha I was about to say you defs don't play soccer if you don't know what the offside rule is. I would have asked you to leave the room for lying on your amcas if i were the interviewer

you win for best user name.

 

[gingersnaps08]

my interviewer decided it would be great fun to quiz me on clinical skills...but i didn't know it was a quiz.

interviwer: *walks in, glares at me, walks out, slams door, then walks back in*
"ur the patient im the doctor, how many things did i just do wrong"

so i started listing a bunch of things

interviwer: i've never seen anyone get as angry or upset with my actions as u just did

me: um thank u?

haven't heard back yet, fingers crossed that anger is a good thing

 

[captainnerd]

Really? What studies? I would be very interested to see them.

http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/

This is an interesting graph of data. It is not a study. The compiler of the data went through Facebook's statistics page for each college and looked at what books the students were reading from that college. Then took the avg SAT scores of the students from those colleges. Then ranked them.

Notice how readers of the Holy Bible scored much lower than readers of The Bible (the Holy-free version). Hell (pardon my vocab), people with higher SAT scores chose to read Fight Club more than the Holy Bible. In fact, people who selected "I Don't Read" scored better than The Holy Bible. This means you're better off not reading than choosing to read and then choosing the Bible as your reading material of choice.

People who read the book about a grown man's infatuation with a young girl, Lolita, scored rather high. In fact, it is clear that people who read Russian literature scored rather high.

 

[Cadams1]

http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/

This is an interesting graph of data. It is not a study. The compiler of the data went through Facebook's statistics page for each college and looked at what books the students were reading from that college. Then took the avg SAT scores of the students from those colleges. Then ranked them.

Notice how readers of the Holy Bible scored much lower than readers of The Bible (the Holy-free version). Hell (pardon my vocab), people with higher SAT scores chose to read Fight Club more than the Holy Bible. In fact, people who selected "I Don't Read" scored better than The Holy Bible. This means you're better off not reading than choosing to read and then choosing the Bible as your reading material of choice.

People who read the book about a grown man's infatuation with a young girl, Lolita, scored rather high. In fact, it is clear that people who read Russian literature scored rather high.

Wow that IS a bizarre interview moment! 😴