Empathy Quotient

[garbage]

Simon Baren-Cohen's research kicks all sorts of ass. "Zero Degrees of Empathy" is a great read.

His Empathy Quotient is meant to be a scale on how "dual-minded" or empathetic one is. It's morphed into part of a larger Emphathizing-systemizing framework. More rough information on E-S can be found here.

Here's a test based on his Empathy Quotient. The test itself seems less impressive than his research overall, but.. I dunno, it's a test, and we like our tests.

I scored 67.

 

[AphroditeGoneAwry]

44. Somewhere between a woman and a man.

 

[Infinite Bubble]

28... wow, that's terrible. I thought I was good at reading people too.

 

[KDude]

I scored 20. Something's wrong. I don't have Aspergers.

I'll artificially raise it to 33.

 

[PeaceBaby]

I don't like this test. It doesn't matter what I scored in empathy, it only matters that it's really obvious to see how to score high. And to do so requires a predictive, pretentious, presumptuous mind-set that I really try to resist.

Let's look at a couple of questions here:

58. I am good at predicting what someone will do.

Now, if you say you strongly agree with that, it raises your empathy score. In my mind, it's ballsy to say you strongly agree. It diminishes the individual to a behavioural equation, and I don't like that kind of thinking.

1. I can easily tell if someone else wants to enter a conversation.

Again, same answer. If I answer strongly agree, I am presuming to know what people want, not actually know what they want. If you start talking to someone, of course they will likely speak back. This does not mean they wish to converse.

29. I can't always see why someone should have felt offended by a remark.

Answering this as slightly disagree vs strongly disagree again commits the error of presumption. But it raises your empathy score! I've met a lot of people who think they KNOW this stuff, but in reality, they simply project their own answers over top of another person and run with that.

Who goes to the trouble of actually asking? That would indicate a higher empathy, to me.

 

[AphroditeGoneAwry]

Yeah. I think if you answer "definitely agree" to many of those questions, it automatically qualifies you as empathic or sympathetic.

They make a mistake when they then try to turn it into a quantitative test methinks.

 

[Redbone]

Holy crap...I got 15!

It can't be true!

 

[Il Morto Che Parla]

The test is not "how empathetic are you?" but "how empathetic do you think you are?"

Still though I am not criticizing the overall topic as surely it will be worthy of much debate.

I got scored basically a social retard (26 lol) which is not the case. I just don't call myself a mind-reader. People who think they are, may not be.

 

[Stanton Moore]

Holy crap...I got 15!

It can't be true!

You have plenty of empathy. It's not a good test.

 

[Stephano]

Omg I got 34

[MENTION=5578]bologna[/MENTION]
What did you answer to get such a high score???

Is there a correlation to MBTI?

Edit: Here's a systemizing quotient test to get your type
http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/SystemizingQuotient/SystemizingQuotient.aspx

I scored 20

That means I'm there in the graphic:

 

[SoraMayhem]

I got a 36. Not quite sure how to feel about that.

 

[greenfairy]

I got 31. Huh. I thought it would be a lot higher.

Omg I got 34

[MENTION=5578]bologna[/MENTION]
What did you answer to get such a high score???

Is there a correlation to MBTI?

I got 32 S, so type B. Big surprise.

 

[Coriolis]

I got 31. Huh. I thought it would be a lot higher.


I got 32 S, so type B. Big surprise.

Did anyone else do the S test? I got 44 on S and 9 on E.

 

[Tyrinth]

13 on the empathy quotient.

 

[/DG/]

I scored 25 on the empathy quotient. Looks like we all have Asperger's!

Dis test b jank, yo.

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[MENTION=16320]Infperson[/MENTION] - That test is even worse than the first!

Just to give you guys a few sample questions...

7. If there was a problem with the electrical wiring in my home, I'd be able to fix it myself.
14. I make a point of listening to the news each morning.
37. When I look at a building, I am curious about the precise way it was constructed.
60. I do not care to know the names of the plants I see.

What the hell??

I scored a 24.

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I'm between type B and type S. BS! Female brain and male brain my ass.

 

[Stephano]

I scored 25 on the empathy quotient. Looks like we all have Asperger's!

Yeah the test is shitty, but at least Fs seem to score higher than Ts

 

[Thalassa]

Yeah the test is shitty, but at least Fs seem to score higher than Ts

There's this Buddhism test on OkCupid that I think is a rather good empathy test. The lowest scorers appeared to be INTx and the highest ranking person was an INFJ.

I scored somewhere in the middle, and was more "mindful" than kind.

Of course, the kindness required not being strict with children and giving concert tickets to a person who mocks you, so they were extremely difficult "turn the other cheek" kind of questions.

 

[Derpravity]

I got... 13.

I maintain that I can generally understand people. I just don't care.

 

[Coriolis]

There's this Buddhism test on OkCupid that I think is a rather good empathy test. The lowest scorers appeared to be INTx and the highest ranking person was an INFJ.

I'm not surprised. I fouind the hardest thing about the empathizing/systemizing tests was that many of the questions ask, "do you often . . . ". I'm not in some of the situations the questions describe very often, so my response reflects a fraction of a very small number, which may have significant statistical error. Still, I can't argue with the overall result: E<<S.

 

[garbage]

Systemizing, as a concept, can be described as structuring, routinizing, anchoring on facts and the "known," striving for precision and clarity, developing habits and rules, and so on.

Just to give you guys a few sample questions...

Granted, about 20 of the questions on both tests are "filler" questions that aren't actually scored--common psychometric practice. But the remaining questions still aren't exactly the best around. Part of me is surprised that these particular tests have stood up to any sort of scientific rigor, but they're correlated with other validated instruments.

A good question would have been "I found this test pretty boring and I futzed around in getting the questions answered because it felt like a chore." Less methodical people would answer that affirmatively.

Anyhow, I got 35 on the systemizing test. Hooray for being average