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Some of you may have heard about the theory called the extreme male brain theory, I just found an interesting quiz that indicates whether you are a "female" or a "male" thinker. With the Extreme Male Brain theory in mind, I'd like to see how many of us actually fall under the 'male' brain.

The quiz can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ ... user.shtml

I fell under 50 for male.
My results are the following:

Part 1
Angles
Your score: 18 out of 20
Average score for men: 15.1 out of 20
Average score for women: 13.3 out of 20

You have more of a male brain. On average, men outperform women in this task and those with more mathematical knowledge tend to score quite high as well. In past studies, 60 per cent of the people in this range were men

Spot the difference
Your score: 29%
Average score for men: 39%
Average score for women: 46%

You may have more of a male brain. Scientists say men tend to under perform in this task. The corpus callosum, the part of the brain that links the right and left hemispheres, is a fifth larger in women. This means women can process visual and other signals at the same time more easily than men. There is also a theory that oestrogen levels in women give them an added advantage in spatial memory.

Part 2
Hands
You said your right thumb was on top when you clasped your hands together.

Right thumb on top: This suggests the left half of your brain is dominant. Many studies have tried to establish whether there is a relationship between handedness and brain dominance. Some scientists believe that if you are left brain dominant, you would be more verbal and analytical.

Part 3
Emotions and Systems

This task looked at whether you prefer to empathise or systemise.
Empathising
Your empathy score is: 1 out of 20
Average score for men: 7.9 out of 20
Average score for women: 10.6 out of 20

Empathisers are better at accurately judging other people's emotions and responding appropriately. If you scored 15 and above, you are very empathic and would be an ideal person to comfort people in a time of crisis. Women in general are better at empathising.

Systemising
Your systemising score is: 12 out of 20
Average score for men: 12.5 out of 20
Average score for women: 8.0 out of 20

Systemisers prefer to investigate how systems work. A system can be a road map, flat pack furniture, or a mathematical equation – anything that follows a set of rules. A score of 15 and above suggests you're good at analysing or building systems. Men in general are better at systemising.

Eyes
This task tested your ability to judge people's emotions.
Your score: 5 out of 10
Average score for men: 6.6 out of 10
Average score for women: 6.6 out of 10

If you scored 4 - 6: Your result suggests you have a balanced female-male brain and find it neither easy nor difficult to judge people's emotions.

Part 4
Fingers

We asked you to measure your ring and index fingers. Your ratios came to:
Right Hand: 0.95
Left Hand: 0.92

Average ratio for men: 0.982
Average ratio for women: 0.991

It's thought that your ratio is governed by the amount of testosterone you were exposed to in your mother's womb. The ratio of the length of your index finger to the length of your ring finger is set for life by as early as three months after conception. Even during puberty, when we experience intensive hormonal changes, the ratio stays the same.

Men generally have a ring finger that is longer than their index finger, which gives them a lower ratio than women, whose ring and index fingers are usually of equal length.

Part Five
What the hell this has to do with anything I don't know but sure.. I'll post it.
I could probably list a couple possibilities as to what this has to do with anything but I'll refrain, I'm taking up a lot of space already.

Faces
This task looked at how you rate the attractiveness of a series of faces. The images you looked at were digitally altered to create slight differences in masculinity.

Your choices suggest you prefer more feminine faces.

Part six
3D shapes
This task tested your ability to mentally rotate 3D shapes.

Your score: 11 out of 12
Average score for men: 8.2 out of 12
Average score for women: 7.1 out of 12

If you scored 10 - 12: Are you an engineer or do you have a science background? People with these skills tend to score in this range. Past studies have concluded that people in this range have a more male brain.

It looks like I come in at about 25 Male (I think its just an arbitary scale)
What did you do for the last one agentcyclosarin?

angles
18 out of 20

Spot the difference
29%

Hands
right


Emotions and Systems
Your empathy score is: 1 out of 20
Your systemising score is: 17 out of 20

Eyes
4 out of 10

Right Hand: 1
Left Hand: 1.09

Your choices suggest you prefer more feminine faces.

3D shapes
10 out of 12

Your score: you associated 3 word(s) with grey and you named 3 word(s) that mean happy. We are assuming that all the words you entered are correct


25 I want

I don't remember my specific scores -- it was a few months ago that I took the test. But overall, I came out 75% male and 25% female. Hey, whatever. I've always been me, and I'll always be me, while these theories come and go.

I got the average for a male brain:

Copy and paste fails me!
you associated 10 word(s) with gray and you named 11 word(s) that mean happy.
I knew more words than 11 for happy I just got tired of typing the same thing over and over LOL

I demanded £25.

I demanded £25 too.

me too

Typical that AS would automatically do what is fair and even in the given situation?
No need for bribing, no need for lies. We simply want half.

Yeah, asking for half seemed the obvious thing to do really. It didn't occur to me to ask for more or less.

Thats why I asked, thought it would be like that - in that situation, how could you do anything else?
To maximise your profits, you must make it as appealing to your partner as possible, so a 50/50 split it is.

Exactly, not much of a brain rattler is it?
People WILL figure they have more right to it than others and those I have never understood.

Its a basic analysis, if you don't make it appealing to your partner neither of you get it and so a fifty/fifty split is the way to go. Debate can commence from there on.

I've just looked at this in another light,

If I was the otherside, and my partner took more than 50%, I was thinking that I would so no, just to spite them. In reality, any profit is better than none though, so within reason you should theoretically accpet anything. I think it breaks down when you get to the last few pence though.

Even looking at it like that though, I still think I would do the 50%, the risk is too great that the other person will not think about it in a rational sense, and that the mind will be overtaken by aspirations of personal greed etc.

I'm too lazy to take the quiz right now, but I took this one sex/gender test at least 5 times and every time I came out a woman. However, this test was not really testing different abilities, it was all about opinions... eg, which is more important to you, finding love or success in life... things like that. I think that also my intellectual brain is very masculine, other aspects of me are quite feminine. I am actually over-empathetic at times. It can be very difficult for me to see anyone in even a little pain, I just freak.

I had a female score of 0.

I guess that's why my wife thinks that I don't understand anything.

I got a score of 0. I guess that means sometimes I think like a man and sometimes I think like a woman.