Gauge Your Stress Level as an Undercover Cop!

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The UK’s Hallmark Channel and agency Ralph are promoting series nine of Law & Order: SVU with an online stress test. (Not to be confused with any such test you might have taken on a subway.)

Find out what it’s like to operate as an undercover cop. You’ll have something like five seconds to memorize a criminal profile, then you have to watch clips — on which you’ll be tested — while pushing Space Bar to the sound of a pulse.

We were groggy when we did it, which I guess is no excuse; we fared horribly and are utterly unqualified to bust rapists for a living. Well, there goes my back-up career.

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Steve Hall

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