How secure is your password?

[roguebanshee]

I've read about similar experiments more than a few times. The reward is sometimes something different like a sportsdrink or a hotdog but always something cheap. It just makes me wonder if any of these experiments have really taken place or if they're just something cooked up by security experts who feel that the public needs to be shaken up a bit. To make people say "Hey we're not that stupid, we know what we should do." or "We're smarter than most others, we won't fall for that trap." Positive reinforcement of a desired behaviour. I could of course be wrong and there have been a lot of different experiments on this.

My own passwords? Numbers and letters based on something I'm occupied with at the time, usually unrelated to the place where the password is needed.