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Main Area and Open Discussion => Living Room => Topic started by: mouser on January 25, 2006, 10:52 PM
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http://www.msnbc.com/modules/newsweek/autism_quotient/default.asp
found from a blog today. it's a quiz that rates your tendency torwards autistic characteristics.
i scored a 28.
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(most women score about 15, and most men score about 17)
I scored 17 :)
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What, I only got a 13? Weird :-s
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Omg, i got 24, maybe I'm in the way to become a autist? *scary*!
(mouser: you already are autist, aren't you? :tellme: :tellme:)
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13... nice and normal :)
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me 30 .... now that's a nice, interesting number ....
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I didn't score anything! After I answered all the questions, I couldn't see the result.
Here's a screenshot (http://screenshots.mine.nu/?Qwd=.&Qif=1138740182.png&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=M)
Anyway, I think I scored very high, I always score high! :D 8)
EDIT;
The screenshot link works kinda, it just displays the wrong image. Sorry about that, I forgot to keep that one imag when cleaning the directory.
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you broke it!!
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Talk about being off the charts! lol
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14—Average (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/friend2004/graemlins/dunno_shrug.gif)
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39...what 2 expect from a adhd and bipolar person...maybe asperger???
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17 for me :)
I'm saved ;-P
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all you people trying to get low scores, you dont realize the higher the score the better!!
at least that is my rules :)
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37 - Yikes! (back off to my cave...) :-[
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I was chatting with someone while taking it, and mis-clicked several times. I think that my score of 24 is low, I blame my autism for not taking the test right.
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22 for me. I noticed some overlap with my ADHD, but they are distinctly different. I'm no Rain M..... oooooooooo! Look at that!!! Shinnny! :P
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30? :huh:
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I got a 13. For the first time in my life I'm normal! It's interesting that just a couple years ago some of my answers would have been much different and my score would have been higher. I guess that's a sign that I've become more mentally stable. Hooray!
The question about whether or not I was fascinated by dates was tricky for me. I wasn't sure what kind of dates it meant. I am truly fascinated by dating--the act of going out with/getting to know better a member of the opposite gender--but not so much with the edible dates or dates on a calendar.
I figured it meant calendar dates, but it was amusing to consider answering the question for the fruit or getting-to-know-you types.
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8 !!!
Am I subhuman ? It doesn't say what 'low' means ???
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26
but then I began thinking carefully about what that means to me and how it would affect my position as center of the universe and now my wife tells me that she couldn't break into my train of thought for three days, did I mention that my wife couldn't break into my train of thought for three days, no not for three days, but that was okay because otherwise I'd have had to take time to meet my subjects guests and I don't like them anyway...
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18 - dead average!
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38... something I expected though :-[ I have some issues :D
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14. But I know myself I should be a bit higher, not too much so (I hope).
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Just out of curiosity how did people answer these questions ?
I found myself consciously trying to go for a quick gut reaction to the questions but it was hard to resist the 'what do they expect ...' or 'what do I think I should ...' temptations.
Do you think the scoring system takes into account human nature ?
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Excellent point Carol and that's why I suspect my real score would be higher. For most questions it was clear what direction the different answers would push you towards.
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Excellent point Carol and that's why I suspect my real score would be higher. For most questions it was clear what direction the different answers would push you towards.
-Eóin
It wasn't clear to me on most questions...only the ones having something to do with numbers.
and I have been wondering what my score would have been if I wasn't dyscalculic. :huh:
I just answered them honestly. Why would one be tempted to do otherwise on a test like this? I can't see any benefit to getting a higher score...or a lower one.
and for what it's worth, I am kind of bothered by my score, how high it is.
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I am not saying anyone would consciously set out to deceive (as you say that would be pointless) but I found that reading the questions I became aware that I was considering what was my actual response and what I thought the 'right' answer was (whatever 'right' means in this case). It was at a purely subsconscious level but I became aware that I was 'playing a game' with myself after the first few questions and after that tried to answer the questions from the gut rather than thinking about the answers. This probably says a lot about the way my mind works in itself !!!
Te trouble is that all multiple choice questionnaires tend to have this effect on me and I wondered if other people had similar difficulties in answering them in a detached manner.
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Ok so I took the test again trying to be as honest as possible and this time scored 10 :huh:
That surprised me as I suspected the first time I was picking answers that would steer me away from the higher end of the spectrum.
A question for any psychologists in the house- Regarding the two questions about playing pretend as a child, what age do you think they were referring to and does having enjoyed playing pretend push you in the direction of autism or away from it?
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I would guess 'pretend games' would push you away from the autism scale because a characteristic of autism is the inability to see the world from another person's point of view - a pre-requisite for pretending.
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That could explain my ‘bad’ score. I’m pretty much unable to pretend I’m someone else.