>"The low score may be something to do with the phrasing of the >questions"
I think this may be a problem in many tests - we each have a unique variety of "literalness", which combined with the environmental factors (such as anxiousness due to environment and general dislike of a 'testing' situation) may cause variable test results.
Personally I have never been able to fathom I.Q. tests, despite being highly intelligent and holding a 'boffin-level' professional job.
Autism Spectrum quotient: 43
Systemizing: 46
Empathy: 14
Reading the mind in the eyes: 23
I agree about the eyes test, usually I didn't find a choice in which I felt it resembled. Odd.
Mine from the thread below....
EQ - 4 from 80 (OK i know I have the emotional range of a lead brick but this was quite a surprise)
SQ - 66 from 80
AS - 43 out of 50
Mind in the Eyes - 25 - I can usually tell face to face if I'm really upsetting someone but I find it impossible down a phone or via email.
I only took two tests, for the sake of time. I'M confused now!
Empathy Score: 68
Autistic Spectrum Score: 4
:?
I scored 51 on the Empathy Quotient, 26 on the AS test, 32 on the Systemizing Quotient, and 23 on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test.
My scores seem somewhat atypical for someone on the autism spectrum, but I am probably not the only AS person with scores like these. When people talk about me, usually one of the first things they mention is how sweet I am; people have also told me that I have excellent eye contact, but I know I have some difficulty reading facial expressions in real life. I find the eyes test to be the most interesting; it seems to me like many autistic people do as well on this test as neurotypicals, and according to one website, the average male and female score was very close. I think the average was 23 for males and 24 for females. I'm a female by the way.
Well, as you all know, the tests are not diagnostic. My official diagnosis is PDD-NOS. I just thought you might find my scores interesting.
I am new here so this is my first post.
Empathy: 19 (Better than last time. I got 15 when I last did this three years ago) I'm no mind reader. I have to assume or take guesses on what people are feeling)
AS: I score between33-39 (taken the test too many times and quit taking it when I was 18)
SQ: (didn't take it because not all questions applied to me so I wouldn't know, so difficult to answer)
Mind the eye test: 13 (I did guesses on all of them lol since I didn't understand any of them)
Welcome to AFF likedcalico!
nope not me. How did you knw it's them? Did it say?
Systemizing: 51 (I knew I should have been born male)
Empathizing: 13
Autism Spectrum: 36
Eyes: 30
The eyes test was HARD to do. I suffered and agonized through it. Most of the questions didn't have answers that seemed anywhere near what I thought the expressions were.
I thought the same thing. My immediate choice for what the eyes were "conveying" never matched anything in the list of choices, so I did it based on process of elimination. I would think "ok, that looks agressive, but that's not a choice. Well, despondent isn't anything like agressive, so that's out...panicked is also totally different than agressive, and so is incredulous, so I guess it has to be "interested."
I also thought that the tilt of the head gave away much more than the eyes themselves did. For a more accurate test, they'd really need to do all straight-on photos.
My First Post
my scores were
EQ 4
SQ 48
AQ 40
Eyes 27
pretty aspergian results apart from the eyes. Though using logic they were fairly easy to work out.
I have never got the meaning of the question "do you look at the whole picture or focus on the details". to what sort of picture is it refering?
Also I never saw any of those people but I did see Winston Churchill
Hi Bob, welcome aboard.
AS 43
EQ 13
SQ 42
Eyes / Mind 26
I got 14 out of 135 on the friendship test.
I'm going to be very alone in the near future.
I must devise a plan to keep my existing two friends.
I could lock them in my cupboard perhaps? (joke, i'm not insane)
The cobwebs sound like a nice idea but where am I going to get a skeleton from at this hour? all the corpse related stores are closed.
I am an officially diagnosed aspie, and I scored 27 on the eyes test, which I believe was a fairly average score.
I don't think the score itself should be an indicator of AS, but rather how the answers were worked out. If the conclusions were come to via logic or reasoning instead of instinct, then you are more likely to be aspie. I remember that the instinctual answers I came up with were very vague, yet the choices were set up so that even a vague feeling could point you to the right answer...