The Aspergers Game

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So here is what you do. First, think of a celeb, historical figure, or fictional character. Then go to google and type in their name and let auto-complete show up. If aspergers shows up give them a score of 0.n, where n is how far down they are on the top 4 of the autocomplete. If aspergers does not show up slowly enter letter to spell "Asperger" after their name. If Aspergers pops up, give them a score of m.n, where m is the number of letters you had to type and n is how far down it was. If asperger never pops up then they don't get a score, as the internet apparently doesn't think they are autistic. The lower the score, the more autistic the internet thinks they are.

Here is what I got for all the ponies with scores:

Fluttershy 2.4

Twilight Sparkle 2.2

Pinkie Pie 3.1 (its unlikely to get a defined score higher than 3.1)

And now for a few celebs who have been diagnosed:

Heather Kuzmich 0.2

Adam Young 1.2

Ladyhawke 1.2

Vetinari 1.6

I could only get to the top 4, how did you get .6?

[Incorrect format, should be 6.1 instead of 1.6]
A: too generic
As: another commonly used word
Asp: associated with other things
Aspe: becomes Aspen
Asper: surname Asper
Asperg: assumed to be Asperger's

Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton and Crispin Glover all got 2.1. Johnny Depp got the same score as Pinkie Pie (3.1).

Too bad what comes up on one's autocorrect isn't universal.

Albert Einstein 2.2

Vincent van Gogh 3.1

Charles Darwin 2.1

Andy Warhol 2.2

Isaac Newton 2.3

Gary McKinnon 1.2

Bill Gates 1.2

Peter Howson 2.1

Thomas Jefferson 2.1

George Orwell 2.2

As an aside, try typing the phrase 'famous people' into Google. The first autocomplete that comes up for me is... 'famous people with aspergers' !

Vin Diesel got nothing

Probably because you look up a lot of stuff about Asperger's.
Google is personalized, you know.

Maybe private browsing will help? It seems that the browser works from a figurative blank slate when private browsing. The first mental condition autocompletes were autism and bipolar disorder but not Asperger's on Chrome's private browsing.

No. I meant Google is personalized.

But doesn't it personalize based on cookies and user activity rather than IP address?

Think about it.
Type in something like "malls", and look at what is in autocorrect.

But then, that would be a location, which can be seen from the IP address. I doubt there's a pattern correlating those on the spectrum and certain patterns of IP addresses.

Oh, yeah. I didn't know if you went off on something else or were still talking about the Asperger's thing. Bit of a misunderstanding there on my part.
There are some discrepancies between some of the data in this thread and stuff that I did when both signed in and signed out of Google. Haven't tried Incognito yet (mainly because I don't use Chrome often.)

If you use FireFox, there's an option for that, but Chrome is more convenient for switching between normal browsing and private browsing. With Opera, I'm quite sure there are private browsing tabs but not windows.

ADDITION: Probable end of discussion about Google and clients