posted 14 January 2005

Back to the grey

Yesterday's blogging absence was me travelling 6,000 miles. It's dark and it's thirty degrees colder and the tube smells like shit, and I mean actual shit.

On the other hand, I have my double monitors back and ah! sweet, blessed broadband. The first world does have some benefits. Popstarz anyone?

P.S. Could everyone please calm the fuck down over Prince Harry? It was a costume in poor taste. Find something more important to talk about.

Oh, and I scored 48 in the systematizing quotient test. From the test:

You have an above average ability for analysing and exploring a system. On average women score about 24 and men score about 30. Most people with Asperger Syndrome or high functioning autism score between 40-50

Oops. I'm borderline Asperger's, apparently. Or even not very borderline. I'm sure I was just answering with knowledge of the test though, so let's try the empathy quotient test instead:

26. D'oh!

You have a lower than average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately. Most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20,. On average, most women score about 47 and most men about 42

Would some of you do this test and reassure me that it's a silly test, and I'm not really some hideous freak of nature?

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Jon

posted 14 January 2005

Almost precisely as fucked up as you - 46 in the systemizing quotient and 27 in the empathy quotient.

However, I agree with the former, but I think the latter is a bit out... I'm generally quite good with empathy issues, I think.
Tom Williams

posted 14 January 2005

47 and 22 for me. Though I think the 22 should have been a bit higher... I do understand how other people are feeling, I just don't care. And a lot of people do talk to me about their problems, they just don't say that I'm a "good listener" because they're all ingrates. :o)
edan

posted 14 January 2005

Test = Rubbish. All these tests have been rubbish! Good pics, excellent trivia, crap tests. Got 41 on the first, couldn't be arsed with the second. It seemed that it gauges ones 'ability' on their own shallow self-perception of their sense of curiosity in relation to some average that Joe Blogs apparently feels. You (we?) people clearly are not empathetic enough to gauge that average anyway ;-) Also those that tend to do things 'strongly' rather than 'slightly' will score lots either way too, which might explain the v high/ v low scores.
Talia

posted 14 January 2005

Ok

In test 1 I got 23

and in test 2 I got 39

So I'm slightly under average :o
Ben

posted 15 January 2005

Ooh, I win! 52 in the systematizing one :). 38 in t'other.

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