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Yes. I built the form around that paper. The questions and scoring are as close to the paper a possible. Should I have posted this in the same thread?
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The questions with "people tell me that..." were hard to answer I basically live like a hermit and rarely talk to anyone.
Yup, I know what you mean. I suppose that is why they say you should have someone with you.
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Also thought I should add, I feel a little guilty, because my scores were total: 137, social: 60, language: 10, sensory/motor: 46, and interests: 21, but then I changed some answers.
I deliberately left the questions showing so you can check your answers and maybe change them. This questionnaire expects you to have a high degree of self knowledge and to be accompanied by someone who can explain exactly what the questions mean. If you change your answers after thinking about them for a while or discussing them with someone else, the results may actually end up more accurate.
That brings up an interesting point. The AQ test is designed to be filled out unassisted and to a certain extent assumes that you don't always know the real meaning behind some of the questions. If you have a detailed knowledge of ASD, does that skew the results?
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This test would be more accurate if they had a "sometimes" column.
I know what you mean. I just looked up the criteria for the Simon Baron-Cohen AQ test and although it gives you the four options “Definitely agree”, “Slightly agree”, “Slightly disagree” or “Definitely disagree”, both of the agree options score the same as do both of the disagree answers. There is no scaling based on how strongly you feel about the answer.