You shouldn't be surprised, either.

[chess]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/flash/page/0,13249,937835,00.html

Your Systemizing Quotient is 60.

51-80: You have a very high ability for analysing and exploring a system. On average women score about 24 an dmen score about 30. Three times as many people with Asperger Syndrome score in this range, compared to typical men, and almost no women score this high.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/flash/page/0,13249,937836,00.html

Your Empathising Quotient is 20.

0-32: You have a lower than average ability for understanding how people feel and responding appropriately. Most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20. On average, most women score about 47 and most men about 42.

Comments

[jaq.livejournal.com]

SQ 52
EQ 34

I wasn't that surprised either, with either of the eithers.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

SQ 41
EQ 24

No surprises there either. This makes me an extreme S too, though not as much as Michelle.

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

SQ 34
EQ 16

im rather worried byt that.

[passage.livejournal.com]

SQ 44
EQ 35
Although I kept suffering an urge to check boxes that made pretty patterns on the page rather than actually related to my answers.

For the last one I was caused to think:

• Does a person get penalised on this set of questions if they have a realistic appraisal of their ability to assess others, i.e. someone who was overconfident might score higher, not because they were more empathic, but because they had never paid enough attention to see that they weren't.
  
• Does a person get penalised because they balence their intuition with reason, and would that be a fair penalisation: would weighing the intuition with reason imply the intuition was neccessarily poorer?
  

Intresting that your friends list seem to tend towards your extreme scores Michelle (unless of course their averages are way out, which is always possible).

[sagima.livejournal.com]

SQ=31
EQ=21

I have a extreme type S brain then

my scores

[adamosity.livejournal.com]

SQ=46

EQ=16

any surprise I have Asperger's? *grin*

[ahsu.livejournal.com]

EQ = 16
SQ = 42

I found the empathy test frustrating, since I've been discovering in the last, oh, ten years that I simply miss observing a lot of things that I feel strongly about. I would, for instance, not assume that it's the responsibility of a stranger in a group to integrate themselves, but I function so awkwardly in groups that I might literally not notice a stranger -- I often don't. So I didn't know how to answer those questions. I know how I feel, but I don't know how I function, kwim? Besides, people with bpd often have trouble interpreting non-verbal signals, too.

[pling.livejournal.com]

SQ=56
EQ=30

And yeah, like everyone else, not surprised.

[phamster.livejournal.com]

EQ: 20
SQ: 46

Fairly Bleh... hmmm, funny, was thinking about this sort of thing the other day. I'm dsylexic... but recently I've been wondering if something else was missed in the process... oh well... still another useful LJ post, i'm so glad I read over the old ones... thanks Chess.

A confuzzled phamster...