Poll: What's your autism quotient?

A massive and impressive 29.

Seems I'm borderline autistic. Uh, yeah. And the problem with that is...?
 
22. Just antisocial enough to be mysterious. :D

I actually have a lot of social trouble; the reason I scored so low is apparently my strong creative streak...
 
I got a meager 7, but I'm thinking here... I'm mostly a loner and a bookworm. I'm also 100% socially apt. I can concentrate in a book as if there was nothing else in the world... but not in much else. :)
 
I tried the test 41 times. I noticed that I tended to answer even-numbered questions with a "slightly disagree," but when I arranged the questions by prime numbers there would be an "slightly agree" answer every third time. There seemed to 8 questions about social situations (whatever those are), 5 questions about numbers, 6 questions about talking to people, and 2 questions about children, so then I averaged the responsesforeachtypeofquestionand . . .





What?
 
Nice one Psi Baba :p

I have degrees in Physics and Computing and earn my living as a programmer. How the hell did I score only 14?

In common with a few other people I would have scored higher in my younger years, but I was painfully shy then.
 
I scored a 28. I hate answering questions with a "Strongly Agree" or "Strongly Disagree," though. As the test went on, I loosened up and answered a few with "Strongly" this or that, so I'm a really lousy test taker if it doesn't involve simple math problems. I like just "Yes" or "No." True or False. So I used the "Slightly Agree" as True and "Slightly Disagree" as False. But realistically, True and False are absolutes, so I should have used "Strongly Agree" and "Strongly Disagree." I was worried that would give me a really bad score, though.

You can see why I don't trust polls. Too many people like me out there.
 
Luke T. said:
I like just "Yes" or "No." True or False
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Then you should love this test. The scoring makes no distinction between 'strongly' or 'slightly' :p
 
Um...I scored a five. What does that mean?

"Agree: 4,16: 1 point
Disagree: 25,30,40: 1 point
Score: 5"

I agree with Luciana. I do well around people, but I really ,really like being alone. I hated the question, "Would you rather go to the library or go to a party". Those are both fun things to do.
This test is bull.
 
Psi Baba said:
I tried the test 41 times. I noticed that I tended to answer even-numbered questions with a "slightly disagree," but when I arranged the questions by prime numbers there would be an "slightly agree" answer every third time. There seemed to 8 questions about social situations (whatever those are), 5 questions about numbers, 6 questions about talking to people, and 2 questions about children, so then I averaged the responsesforeachtypeofquestionand . . .





What?
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:D :D :D
 
wildflower1 said:
31.

Hmmmm.....

"Mildly antisocial woman seeks mildly antisocial man for mildly antisocial amusement..."
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I'm with you. :)

BillyJoe
(31)
 
8.

Help! what am I doing here? Oh, well, it's about my only compulsory action.... ;)

Hans :p
 
Btw, does somebody know: Isnt there a lot of difference between an autistic type behavior and actually being autist.

Hans
 
28.
My brother's son is strongly aspeger's syndrome and reckons he finds it easier to talk to me than most people. I thought the test was pretty simplistic with a lot of forced dichotomies - would I rather go to the theatre or museum? Depends - the British Museum, sure! But if it's the RSC doing something like Richard III?
Oo-er, both! I'll skip lunch. The theatre is doing "Accidental death of an anarchist" - then it's pub, theatre, pub.
"Face validity" - the degree to which a test appears worthwhile up-front is an important factor in psychometric tests.
I also don't think it differentiated enough between autistic behaviour and introversion in the sense of people who have sufficient "internal resources" so they don't need external stimulus to be happy. I quite like parties depending on the people. If it's full of people who have nothing to talk about but the previous nights TV and football then I show the social skills I have gained with age, note where the exits are, take the gas mask and smoke grenade from my utility belt and .........
 
MRC_Hans said:
Btw, does somebody know: Isnt there a lot of difference between an autistic type behavior and actually being autist.

Hans
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I know that a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome is more about patterns of behaviour than exact symptoms i.e. there are a range of indicative behaviours of which not all need be present. My nephew for instance has a well-developed sense of humour which is atypical of AS. Weird sense of humour but so have his dad and me.
A program on UK TV a while back discussed the "continuum" from normal male adult behaviour to full autism. Interesting in some ways but fell prey to the old "logically black is white" error - since we can't draw a clear line there can't be a real difference. for instance because we can't say exactly at what point the sun has gone down we can no longer tell the difference between night and day and have to leave the lights on all the time.
 
17

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Ha! 44

After the first 10 questions scrolled up, I lost the headings and started puting "agree"s on the right.

Honest.

I'm not autistic, I just have short term memory loss and spatial problems.

No. Really.

Why is everyone looking at me like that?
 
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