Talk:Purity test

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While I appreciate the documentation of the evolution of purity tests from the apparently original sexual purity test, I'm surprised that there are no references here to the purity tests conducted by would-be manufacturers of PC clones. You know, the meetings with a technically savvy inquisitor asking the potential recruit about any exposure to the original IBM BIOS, with a lawyer present for liability reasons.

I'll research for a section about these purity tests. Is anyone reading this? If so, who might know the canonical name for this type of purity test? --Brad Eleven 13:55, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Not only is this information unsourced, it appears to be almost completely made up and wrong. If nobody objects I'm probably going to stubbify this article and replace it by what little I can source. As far as /I/ know purity tests first became popular as one of the very first Inetnet memes via usenet in the early to mid 1980s. They flew from newsgroup to newsgroup, email box to email box, in various ever expanding versions. They were never indended or used seriously, and despite the test's claims they were usually taken alone or discussed in small private settings rather than as a parlor game or a serious attempt to assess anything. The statement that one tries to achieve a score of 70% seems random. Wikidemo (talk) 09:09, 7 December 2007 (UTC)