Empathy Test:

lies:

vanyumm:

0 – 32 = low (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20)
33 – 52 = average (most women score about 47 and most men score about 42)
53 – 63 is above average
64 – 80 is very high
80 is maximum 

If you want to show your followers your result put it in the TAGS

PSA:

Having reblogged this, I feel compelled to mention that on further investigation the creator of the test comes off as something of a crank. He appears to lack formal training in psychology; his main area of expertise appears to be C++ programming, though he’s also interested in computer-based leaning, computer models of biological systems, chess, and weather.

Oh, and he describes himself as a climate change “skeptic”. All of which sounds like someone who is largely self-educated, and willing to apply expertise acquired in one field to other fields without paying too much attention to what people with actual expertise in those other fields think.

So yeah; the test is fun, and presumably is measuring something, but you probably shouldn’t read too much into how Glen Rowe characterizes the meaning of the results.

So, on further investigation, I was a doofus, too. Yes, Glen Rowe is a climate change denier, but he wasn’t the creator of the test; he merely put a version of it online. Simon Baron-Cohen, the person who created the test, actually does know what he’s talking about. More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baron-Cohen

I deleted my rant, but not before one of my cherished followers had reblogged it. And so the cycle of Tumblr misinformation spins on, unstoppable…

Sorry about that.

Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/47201362963.

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