Maybe somebody has covered this (I skipped the last few responses, sorry).
The big down side to these tests is that you can intentionally or unintentionally slant the results. I was very wary about that when I took the test, and that's why I only took it once. I know too much now to be objective. What I did was this:
I avoided any diagnosis info or description of typical asperger characteristics for as long as possible, then took the test cold trying to be as honest with myself as possible. There were more than a few knee jerk replies that I entered, then edited and changed because I though I might be exaggerating my situation (I wanted to err on the side of caution). Then I sent the quiz to 3 or 4 friends who don't know the first thing about aspergers and asked them to take it.
They all scored firmly in the NT area, including one friend who is diagnosed OCD. The quiz called her ADD instead, but her NT score was still double what mine is, and her aspie score was something like 17 if I remember correctly.
In my case my aspie score was 148 and my nt score was 69. Maybe not off the map, but it put me firmly in a different category than all my NT friends.
Anyway, not diagnostic and not foolproof, but I think that if you take the weaknesses of the test into mind it's a very good tool. If you're looking for a certain result though, you're going to get what you want out of the test no matter what it is.
26 Sep 2008, 3:12 pm
