The Group Chat Is the Real Rice Purity Test
A Rice Purity score looks like the ending. It is really the opening line. Someone posts a number. For three seconds, the chat is quiet. Then the amateur detectives arrive. “That is suspiciously high.” “There is no way you got a 41.” “I know exactly which question did that.” Nobody knows anything. Everyone has a theory. This is the natural habitat of the Rice Purity Test. The number is useful because it leaves things out The test asks about dating, parties, sex, substances, rule-breaking, and a few situations that sound as if they escaped from somebody else’s freshman year. You check what you have done. Your score starts at 100 and falls as more boxes are checked. That is simple enough. The interesting part is that the result does not show which boxes you checked. A 62 can come from a long relationship, one chaotic summer, several tiny adventures, or a person who interpreted every question with the seriousness of a tax form. Two people can land on the same score and have almost...