Empathy Quotient Test

[á´…eparted]

Empathy Quotient

Empathy as a concept has come up several times recently in my personal life, and I have seen it come on the forums as well. As a result, I found a test to measure ones empathy. I can't say how reliable or accurate it is, but it seems fairly sound based on what I know. Maybe this could lead to some interesting discussions as well.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Your Empathy Quotient score was 42 out of a possible 80.
Scores above 30 are generally not indicitive of an Autism Spectrum disorder.

 

[á´…eparted]

Your Empathy Quotient score was 36 out of a possible 80.
Scores above 30 are generally not indicitive of an Autism Spectrum disorder.

Higher scores indicate greater levels of empathy.

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The past few years have illuminated to me that overall I have little natural empathy. The rest and most of it is effectively synthetic. I will perform thought experiments based on a library of things I have learned since I was little to create empathy and act the part, but I will feel almost nothing while doing so. Usuaully it's cake, but if it goes completely against what I'd natively want to do then it's a drain. The concept of feeling someone elses pain is an alien concept to me and one I never understood as a child. Only extreme things (i.e. mutilation) set it off under specific circumstances.

For me empathy is on a switch that I can turn on and off at will. My native empathy is also rather illogical in my experience so by default I will suppress it.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I'm actually great in social situations.

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I'm much more curmudgeonly here for reasons of ideological principle.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I'd be REAL curious to see Nic take this.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I've gained empathy as I've aged. Life treating me like shit a little bit has softened my edges.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I remember one time he was complaining about having to get his mom bday presents.

 

[Red Memories]

Your Empathy Quotient score was 42 out of a possible 80.

Scores above 30 are generally not indicitive of an Autism Spectrum disorder.

interesting.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

14 out of 80

Wow. I'm a piece of shit.

 

[GloriaInExcelsisDeo]

Your Empathy Quotient score was 43 out of a possible 80.
Scores above 30 are generally not indicitive of an Autism Spectrum disorder.

Higher scores indicate greater levels of empathy.

 

[Frosty]

49

 

[Amargith]

Your Empathy Quotient score was 67 out of a possible 80.

 

[Coriolis]

14 out of 80

Wow. I'm a piece of shit.

I got 8.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I got 8.

You Vulcan, you.

 

[Lord Lavender]

Your Empathy Quotient score was 34 out of a possible 80.
Scores above 30 are generally not indicitive of an Autism Spectrum disorder.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

[MENTION=9811]Coriolis[/MENTION] cut worms in half.

I used to feed ants to antlions (the ones who build the funnel traps in sand) as a kid to see what would happen and study the antlions.

 

[Verona]

68

 

[Frosty]

I feel like this test is biased against introverts. And people with social anxiety.

Too many questions seemed EF oriented.

 

[Obfuscate]

48

i think it is interesting that my score is changed based on action and reaction in addition to perception... also, why should planning relate to empathy?

 

[Falcarius]

Your Empathy Quotient score was 28 out of a possible 80.

Scores of 30 or less indicate a lack of empathy common in people with Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome.