Eye expression test by Simon Baron Cohen

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21 correct.
Most of my errors were towered the end when I was fighting an increasing urge to look away.

31/36. Shrug.

My Aspie hubby took this exact test 3 days ago, and got a 30.

I took it yesterday and scored 20.

Supposedly he's on the HF/ASD fence, per his shrink. My husband tells me he has all the social skills of a cast iron skillet.

I asked him how he approached the test. He told me he analytically picked apart the word description and correlated with eyes.

Me? The bulk I got wrong where the too dark smuggy ones. Really, those pictures are crap.

So, I asked my shrink if I was on the spectrum since I totally blew that test. He laughed his head off.

The eyes can give you information, but so does the facial expressions, body language, tone of voice and situation. My shrink theorizes, that my husband did well because it was ONLY eyes and he had unlimited time to pick it apart like a puzzle, so he did well.

I got frustrated because I felt there wasn't enough information, and started just guessing near the end.

When I suggested my husband should start handling all our dealing with people events, my shrink said my husband did bomb the face blindness test when he was evaluated. It was timed, had a full face, and a description. Instead of fearful, it would have Sally just lost her cat, what face best shows that?

I've been kidding my husband that he has a much better bead on humanity than me. We are having problems with our rental, and I told him to go slay those dragons. He about died. Lol...
I told him since he go a 30 and I a 20, that should be a piece o cake.

I went and handled the issue.

I take this test with a grain of salt.

I did the test online and got a very high score. I did the very same test (identical) during my assessment and got a very low score, the first time I really thought about it, the assessment time I just gave my gut feeling as I had so many tests to get though. Assumed I would get a similar result so was surprised with the result. Just goes to show that you can learn these things but they will never become intuition.

That.Avatar.Is.Awesome (test results to follow)

Had to read that title twice...
I thought it read "Eye expression test by Sacha Baron-Cohen"

I scored 22 - and I was really surprised by how tough it was for me. I always felt that I was pretty good at judging other people's emotions. I feel a little upended.

I scored 31. This test seems of very limited use to me given how many diagnosed people on this thread had high and even very high scores. This test does not test actual life recognition (or ability to respond) to emotion in others. In a way, it is a bit of an intelligence test, because you have to know the meanings of the words which then leads to the process of elimination. Also, many of the faces looked like actresses and actors from old movies I have seen. Or famous photographs that are cropped just to the eyes. This would make the test very unreliable for people with different degrees of cultural experience and IQ. Also, actors and actresses in movies often kind of overdo what people do in real life.

A more realistic test would be five second film clips of real people having an interaction, followed by an open-ended question like, "What do you think the person in the blue shirt was feeling?" And a fairly short time limit to answer. Then we'd be cookin' with gas.

Up until now - every test I have taken related to autism or Asperger's I scored well within the autism spectrum - But this time I scored 28 which is slightly above average. Perhaps when the eye expression is isolated alone like in this test - my ability to read expressions is not that bad. But I know when I have done test showing the full face of a person or the whole person - I didn't do very well.

Well I will throw out a theory seeing how may people here who have Asperger's or another form of Autism Spectrum did fairly well - I'm guessing that a limited stimuli like just the eyes can be read correctly by many people with Autism Spectrum - but when you throw in additional stimuli such as their full face or their full body or some social contest such as the person is crossing the street - maybe then a kind of overload happens and the ability to correctly read drops dramatically. I'm no shrink or anything - I'm just trying to think of an explanation.

I also always get a high score in other Aspie related tests. Like 140 in Aspie Quiz (I know, some find RDOS's work controversial) but. also other online screening tools, some also by SBC, and I got a 171 in the RAADS test done in my assessment where the cut-off for AS is 65.

Hopefully, this test is not used to diagnose AS. Hopefully, this was just a early version of something much more valid and reliable that has or will come along. Or, it is useful for some purposes, people or situations but should not be out there as a screening tool.

Looking how many people here even with formal official diagnoses score reasonably well - I'm going to suggest that for many if not most people with Asperger's - the issue is not that they are completely incapable of reading some nonverbal communications - but when these nonverbal communications are combined with multiple stimuli - their ability to decipher the world around them and the thoughts of other people is heavily limited. I have taken test which involved showing the full face or full body of people in a situation - and then I didn't read those expressions very well at all.

As with anything with any diagnoses - very few people fit a 100% profile -even with physical illnesses. I know from testing and reading that I do match most criteria for Asperger's/Autism Spectrum - but then again - I am no mathematical whiz and no one will ever accuse me of being obsessively organized. Just as there are people with Autism Spectrum conditions who have fine hand writing. Some are even good in some sports. But those two issues certainly do not include me.

Ohhh, this makes a lot of sense! I'm not too bad at reading eyes when I'm not talking to people, but never really notice what there expression is when they talk, and I've never quite realised what was going on/why I was doing that, until now.

Score 14- I have a hard time figuring out what type of mood someone is in. Most of the time I just notice, Mad, Sad, Happy and Tired.

Hmm.. The link isn't working for me. :/

Hola
Estoy realizando un diplomado de neurociencias, y me apareció la posibilidad de realizar este test, me gustaría realizarlo

Anyone have an up to date link for this test?