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maribouhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/page/0,12983,937443,00.html
I have an Empathy Quotient of 40.
33-52 = You have an average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately. You know how to treat people with care and sensitivity.
On average, most women score about 47 and most men about 42.
(Really, I have an Empathy + Random Social Awkwardness Quotient of 40. But, I can see how most people would group those two things together.)
I have a Systematizing Quotient of 61.
51-80 = You have a very high ability for analysing and exploring a system. Three times as many people with Asperger Syndrome score in this range, compared to typical men, and almost no women score this high.
(Really, I have a very high DESIRE to analyse and explore systems, I'm not so sure about ability. The problem with these quizzen is that they used statements such as, "When I'm in a plane, I do not think about the aerodynamics. " and ask one to pick a point on the continuum between strongly agree and strongly disagree. Now, it's true that I have never been on a plane without thinking about the aerodynamics, even when I was 8 and didn't *know* that was the term for what I was thinking about - but how *well* do I think about aerodynamics? Enh, not generally very.)
Anyway.
I'm somehow utterly unsurprised to find out that I have an extremely 'male' brain, since I spent my formative years with men much more than with women. Conditioning conditioning conditioning.
I have an Empathy Quotient of 40.
33-52 = You have an average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately. You know how to treat people with care and sensitivity.
On average, most women score about 47 and most men about 42.
(Really, I have an Empathy + Random Social Awkwardness Quotient of 40. But, I can see how most people would group those two things together.)
I have a Systematizing Quotient of 61.
51-80 = You have a very high ability for analysing and exploring a system. Three times as many people with Asperger Syndrome score in this range, compared to typical men, and almost no women score this high.
(Really, I have a very high DESIRE to analyse and explore systems, I'm not so sure about ability. The problem with these quizzen is that they used statements such as, "When I'm in a plane, I do not think about the aerodynamics. " and ask one to pick a point on the continuum between strongly agree and strongly disagree. Now, it's true that I have never been on a plane without thinking about the aerodynamics, even when I was 8 and didn't *know* that was the term for what I was thinking about - but how *well* do I think about aerodynamics? Enh, not generally very.)
Anyway.
I'm somehow utterly unsurprised to find out that I have an extremely 'male' brain, since I spent my formative years with men much more than with women. Conditioning conditioning conditioning.
