Aspie Quiz any Good?

Slingblade,

From your brief description of some of your life events it's clear you've hand a rough deal which I'm sorry to hear about. However, I think this makes it even more important to not read into too much into these self-tests, which may lead you down an unproductive path. I hope you manage to find some proper help soon and begin to feel better.

Eos,

I've only watched the TV show Bones a couple of times and was unaware there was anything particularly strange about the lead female character. But then I work with other Engineers, Scientists and Computer Programmers.:D

Prof. Yaffle,

I've taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (again) while on a Management training course and come out with a preference of INTJ (again). It was interesting listening to the reaction of others in the room discussing the description of their type. People seem to have a desire to match themselves to their type, in a similar way to how victims of cold-readers make an effort to find meaning in the words and suggestions of the performer.

Some companies use a similar test and give their employees a colour symbol to wear or put on their office doors so others will know what "type" of person they are. What I don't like about MBTI and similar tests is how they pigeonhole people.

BTW, I managed to score about 100/200 for both Aspie and neurotypical.
 
Ivor, honey, I do my best not to read much into them, and this is helped by having seen professionals in the past whose diagnoses--when they bothered to give me any--so widely varied. No one knows, including me. And in the long run, none of it matters anyway.
 
Well the MTBI is a load of crock.... There are much better and more scientifically sound personality tests (eg the Big Five) which don't pigeonhole you, but describe you on a continuum of 5 different factors. And they don't tell you that if you score x you would be good at job y etc.

The AQ test (by Baron Cohen - one of the foremost researchers into autism) that I posted is a measure with a fair amount research done on it and decent discriminant validity. It doesn't claim to diagnose you it merely indicates whether a) you can rule out autism/asperger's, and b) whether you should seek professional advice IF you are suffering distress.

I retrospect I probably shouldn't have posted it as it is designed for clinical and research use and not as an online self test. But I just thought that given another test had been posted, one I knew to have some research in support of it was probably better than that one that I don't think has had much research into it and I don't even know how it was developed.
 
Professor Yaffle said:
Well the MTBI is a load of crock....

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Yeah, I think I may have scuppered any chance of getting HiPot. next to my name after questioning the validity of the MBTI and other parts of the course.

Did you know the #7 failure in communication is "Believing there is only one reality"?

That was like a red rag to a bull.

:D

ETA: Bloody hell! I just took the "validated" test and got 38/50.

32 - 50 is very high (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 35)
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Eos of the Eons said:
http://php.louisville.edu/news/news.php?news=633
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From the linked article: "The disorder affects approximately one in 166 children."

I bet that it originally said, "approximately six in 1000 children", and someone decided to 'simplify' it, not realizing that by doing so, they were changing the implied precision of the figure.

(Y'all may now proceed to speculate about what it means that I notice things like that. :p)
 
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