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10 Aug 2005, 10:41 pm

http://www.childbrain.com/pddassess.html

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Me: 130- Moderate PDD


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10 Aug 2005, 11:06 pm

I got 120--moderate PDD


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10 Aug 2005, 11:16 pm

I wish it would say how the scoring works. I mean, what is relative to what. Which PDD typically scores in this range or that range... etc. :?


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10 Aug 2005, 11:47 pm

Sheesh...I scored 140!



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11 Aug 2005, 12:33 am

I scored 84-Mild PDD.



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11 Aug 2005, 12:38 am

122 - but I suspect it was much higher when I was really a child - I answered as myself now . . .



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11 Aug 2005, 1:34 am

88 - mild PDD



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11 Aug 2005, 4:16 am

I took this one a while ago and I think I got around 140.



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11 Aug 2005, 4:30 am

Severe PDD 155 here.
Higher score then I thought ..



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11 Aug 2005, 5:18 am

165 here.
Question 7 under SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DELAY was a bit ambiguous. Cause I almost never speak of what I want or need, but I don't use gestures either. I put Moderate anyway.
Also number 7 under SOCIAL INTERACTION DIFFICULTIES is ambiguous. Lack of crying/laughing itself is abnormal, yet because its absent there is no inappropriate crying/laughing, so the only answer can be No.
Silly survey thingie.



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11 Aug 2005, 7:20 am

Sophist wrote:
http://www.childbrain.com/pddassess.html

Have fun! :D

Me: 130- Moderate PDD


Of course bear in mind the test is intended for children of toddler/preschool age in general so unless you can fully remember your childhood, it's not going to be near accurate. :(



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11 Aug 2005, 7:21 am

The whole thing is a bit sketchy, as we are assessing ourselves, and not even as children, but as adults.

Anyway, I got 100, mild PDD.



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11 Aug 2005, 7:44 am

That is the thing with all these 'self-assessment' tests, including the AS/EQ/SQ ones. They are good for people who do have a formal DX or who want to validate their own self-DX, but for those who "Don't Know", they can be misleading.

I am reminded of the 'Barnum' principle, or the 'Forer Effect' in Psychology.

Certainly there are things that *could* fit, which I do remember from Childhood, but they are only disconnected fragments and there is such a thing as 'selective' memory, meaning that you remember the things that are relevant to 'advancing the hypothesis' (in this case, testing to see if there is evidence of PDD), while forgetting those things that might go against evidence of PDD.

I was looking this stuff up on the Sceptic's Dictionary, as well as Wikipaedia a few days ago.



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11 Aug 2005, 3:30 pm

Yes, there are probably things which I remember more severe than how they actually were, and other things which I maybe even didn't know I did at all and because of this, marked myself lower.


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11 Aug 2005, 4:29 pm

I scored 100: mild PDD. I didn't base this off childhood but now. I wouldn't be able to remember my childhood well enough to grade it based on then, but strangely enough many of these things apply to me, and I'm 20 years old.



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11 Aug 2005, 5:37 pm

Mild PDD: 95