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15 Jun 2009, 10:11 pm

in SQ I am138 and in the EQ I did not get the figures right at all poorly done but by the looks of things I am emotionally ret*d people say I am anyway



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15 Jun 2009, 10:13 pm

I just took the AQ and got a 35



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15 Jun 2009, 10:16 pm

I got 35 on one and 37 on the other as I recall... I cant remember which was SQ and which was EQ though. I think the EQ was 35....

And, 26 on the AQ,,, whatever that means.... :)



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15 Jun 2009, 10:23 pm

Forty-two.



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15 Jun 2009, 10:26 pm

nice nolan

is this a new forum game lol



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15 Jun 2009, 10:28 pm

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I scored 26 even with being an introvert.

I think this test will give a false negative for having an ASD in some cases. I don't like it.

Extroverts will score artificially low as will people who are imaginative or have an intuitive/analytical thinking style. Not all aspes are introverts and not all aspies enjoy concrete factual information.


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16 Jun 2009, 7:35 am

EQ=23 (strongly=2*slightly)



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16 Jun 2009, 9:35 am

I got a 19 on the EQ, as I recall. I do feel empathy (and compassion), it´s just that I have trouble knowing what people are feeling if they don´t tell me or don´t make it obvious enough. I also have trouble "feeling" the same emotions as a character in a movie or a book I read, though this can happen, albeit rarely.


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16 Jun 2009, 2:49 pm

Morgana wrote:
I got a 19 on the EQ, as I recall. I do feel empathy (and compassion), it´s just that I have trouble knowing what people are feeling if they don´t tell me or don´t make it obvious enough. I also have trouble "feeling" the same emotions as a character in a movie or a book I read, though this can happen, albeit rarely.


It seems like a lot of us say we score low on the empathy quotient test, but feel we have a lot of feelings. I found an interesting Wiki article on this issue http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp2249768.html#2249768



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16 Jun 2009, 4:04 pm

My extreme, hardcore study of social skills at age 26-30 bumped up my EQ considerably, I suspect.

It would have been a lot lower when I was under 25 and hadnt even heard of AS and had no idea others had this much empathy, lol.



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17 Jun 2009, 2:20 pm

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Morgana wrote:
I got a 19 on the EQ, as I recall. I do feel empathy (and compassion), it´s just that I have trouble knowing what people are feeling if they don´t tell me or don´t make it obvious enough. I also have trouble "feeling" the same emotions as a character in a movie or a book I read, though this can happen, albeit rarely.


It seems like a lot of us say we score low on the empathy quotient test, but feel we have a lot of feelings. I found an interesting Wiki article on this issue http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp2249768.html#2249768


Yeah, that makes sense! Thanks for the article.


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17 Jun 2009, 5:17 pm

I did that test a couple of months ago and I scored a 44.



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17 Jun 2009, 5:34 pm

Usually around 42.



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17 Jun 2009, 5:37 pm

I took that test about 2 months ago and got a 40. Today it was a 36. I think it's because of how I was considering the questions. Two months ago, I most assuredly answered that I am not a good diplomat. But what makes a good diplomat? If I spend time preparing and analyzing how whoever I'm supposed to be a diplomat to will react, I can easily convince them. Then again, maybe I'm being generous in that regard. I tend to make preparations for debating, not diplomacy.

I felt that the test didn't work in two ways:

1. Far too many are yes or no questions. How can you slightly agree or strongly agree with a yes or no question? Perhaps a range would work better and better wording.
2. One point or zero. It doesn't matter how true it is for you. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Still, it's not terrible. I just think that it needs to be improved a bit. Self-tests never seem to be all that good.


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17 Jun 2009, 6:39 pm

*blink* 41.. I thought it was lower the last time I took it.. that's weird.. wasn't that much lower, though, and the one I took before was a yes/no thing.



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18 Jun 2009, 12:53 am

MrLoony wrote:
I took that test about 2 months ago and got a 40. Today it was a 36. I think it's because of how I was considering the questions. Two months ago, I most assuredly answered that I am not a good diplomat. But what makes a good diplomat? If I spend time preparing and analyzing how whoever I'm supposed to be a diplomat to will react, I can easily convince them. Then again, maybe I'm being generous in that regard. I tend to make preparations for debating, not diplomacy.

I felt that the test didn't work in two ways:

1. Far too many are yes or no questions. How can you slightly agree or strongly agree with a yes or no question? Perhaps a range would work better and better wording.
2. One point or zero. It doesn't matter how true it is for you. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Still, it's not terrible. I just think that it needs to be improved a bit. Self-tests never seem to be all that good.


I actually found out that whether you say slightly or strongly doesn't matter. It's whether you say agree or disagree for particular questions that matters.

I found out that the peer-review studies say the AQ test is pretty accurate, although a proper diagnosis is the only way to go. I found some of the studies at the bottom of the Autism Research Centre page http://www.autismresearchcentre.com/tests/aq_test.asp