The following describes how the Weirdness Factor used to be Calculated

The Weirdness Factor is produced by comparing your answer for each question on the test you took to the answers previous test-takers gave for that question. The "score" you get for each question is equal to the fraction of previous test-takers who answered differently than you did. The Weirdness Factor is the average of those scores.

Here is an example for a hypothetical two-question test. You answer yes to the first question, no to the second. To the first question, 44% of previous test-takers answered yes and 56% answered no. To the second question, 33% of previous test-takers answered yes and 67% answered no. Your Weirdness for the first question is 0.56, and for the second is 0.33. Thus, your Weirdness Factor is (0.56+0.33)/2, or 44.5%.

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