The new AS Test (Among the best I've seen)

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So, I did take it.

Result:
Your AS Test score is 62 out of 72.
It is quite likely that you are on the autistic spectrum.

A.
i) Green
ii) Yellow
iii-vii) Green

B.
i) Green
ii) Yellow
iii) Green
iv-v) Yellow

C.
i-ii) Yellow
iii-iv) Green
v-vi) Red

Why Facebook?

These are my favorite things in the world, taking online test....but....facebook.

AS Test Score: 72 / 72

Oh no!

Still don't know if this will affect me any.

I don't have face book, sw, but looking at the material that you posted, I reckon I'm too not inside the Asperger spectrum.

My thoughts...except I know this affects me.

My score 72/72

45/72, sounds about right. I liked this more than the RDOS test.

68 out of 72

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Last edited by Bella1 on 22 May 2011, 3:52 pm, edited 2 times in total.

It's a good point - but on the flip side, it's almost impossible to find observation-based signs that someone has trouble with cultural rules or conversational cues. I'm hoping that enough people have a rough idea when things are a bit out of synch that the questions have worth, and that those who don't will be picked up by other questions in the test.

Just another limitation of multiple choice, unfortunately...



Good idea - I'll try to do that a bit more in version 2.



Some of the weighting in the test is actually deliberate - some of these traits would be much more likely to be possessed by an autistic person than an NT, so only a low score is needed to "pass". Other traits could more easily apply to NT's, so a very high score is needed to pass. In that sense it's a bit different to the philosphy of target-based data mining (such as business KPI's).

The 72's are only really a problem if non-AS people can obtain them - if it's all AS people getting the high scores, that means the test is working...



Unfortunately whenever you use any app on facebook, your status messages will say "<person> has started using <appname>" - so even though the results don't get published when you press skip, someone looking through your status messages might see that you've taken the test and draw their own conclusions...

I don't really know a way around this one.

I'm glad I created a new profile just to take the test. I'm not ashamed of having aspergers just didn't want everyone on my friends list to know.

"If you have problems in these areas you are unlikely to see it and therefore can't answer the questions."

True to a very limited point - ie. unless a person is quite severe and/or VERY isolated from the rest of the world then they WILL know that they have issues in the relevant areas either from people's reactions to them or from others telling them outright - so I think they will understand the questions and be able to answer. I don't think having the trait is necessarily exclusive of understanding the question.

In my case I evidently have issues with boring people all the time - I don't understand why and as far as I'm concerned people are just wierd / rude a-holes - but nonetheless that's evidently what's happening. I recognise what must be happening - sometimes quite quickly - but I don't understand it and switch to the "logical path of behaviour" - ie. shut up and look interested in everyone else's conversations but deliberately refrain from asking questions - and stay back / out of the way enough that I don't get caught out not making an evidently expected response of some sort. I also try not to jump too much when everyone laughs.

I don't always know if I'm boring people, but I try to remember to look out for any signs. If they are not talking much then they are probably not interested. It's also a pretty good sign that they are bored if they try to change the topic, interrupt me, talk over me, start talking to someone else or walk away.

71/72

41

I'm diagnosed.

Did you have trouble understanding / answering those "do you bore people" type questions?

68/72. The ony part I got red was the part about synesthesia, which is funny since I actually have it, but only with people and personalities. They didn't ask for that What's not funny is that although I pressed the skip button on posting my results, my recent activity page still said I started using the AS-test. So I got my friends asking me today if I have AS and what my score was