Verdandi
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15 May 2011, 9:40 pm
swbluto wrote:
It seemed like the questions were "more accurate", but considering how high everyone's score is, I'm not sure how accurate the scoring algorithm is(As I really doubt 90+ % of people on here have aspergers). 
swbluto wrote:
That's true, but I'd imagine there are a lot of people here because they have a high score on the AQ test and that has a high false positive false rate in the "moderate score range(30-40), and so you would think that there would be a lot less people getting lower scores if this were a "better test". But, I could be wrong.
Why don't you start a poll asking people how people determined that they're on the spectrum? You seem to have drawn a conclusion that there are a lot of people who determined this strictly from quiz scores, but that doesn't really match what I've observed from many of the posters here. I understand where you're coming from (I think) but I suspect the truth is more complex.
As for people scoring high - the traits it asks about are traits that a lot of people on the spectrum actually have, so autistic people are likely to score fairly high due to dealing with most or all of these things. It's not surprising at all that autistic people are scoring near the max - it doesn't seem to test severity, after all, just asks for a list of symptoms. I can get the same results on my synaesthesia questions as someone who has more or less intense synaesthesia because it doesn't ask about intensity and will have it rated exactly the same.
15 May 2011, 9:53 pm
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16 May 2011, 12:27 am
16 May 2011, 12:29 am
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16 May 2011, 12:35 am
League_Girl wrote:
You got a 40? But you said you got a 29. Did you retake it and got a 40 this time?
I made that score up because I'm trying to "set the precedent" to admit that it's OK for an NT to admit their score if they score in the "Aspergers range" (And, 'finding out that your SAD is actually caused by having aspergers' was the original storyline to persuade others to take the test). So far, though, none of them are biting.
I take it you're EMT?
[If you are, thanks for posting your score, because it now seems people are starting to answer the thread and follow suit.]
[P.S. I've also spawned another thread on another site, and I'll see if anyone bites there. It's a site for a bunch of electric vehicle nerds. I've also started one on an electronics design site.
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16 May 2011, 2:02 am
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16 May 2011, 3:17 am
Verdandi wrote:
71 out of 72.
Everything came up green except
Which came up yellow.
Everything came up green except
Quote:
vi) A tendency toward literal interpretation of verbal communication and of the behavior of others.
Which came up yellow.
I got exactly the same. Tbh I didn't expect the result to be this high
16 May 2011, 3:19 am
16 May 2011, 3:20 am
16 May 2011, 3:29 am
jmnixon95 wrote:
DeftPlane wrote:
I'm a huge antisocial introvert a lot of the time, and I scored a 15.
Probably because "Asperger's" is not synonymous with either "antisocial" or "introvert."
I never implied that it was.
I was responding to the people discussing whether introversion makes one's score higher.
16 May 2011, 3:44 am
I got 72/72, but it seems that's a lot more common that I thought it would be.
16 May 2011, 4:55 am
72/72 not surprised though
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