Does everyone else take these tests and find themselves unable to resist thinking about "right" and "wrong" answers for each question? I presume that subconscious dialogue colors how you answer, even if you're not necessarily cognizant of it.<p>In addition, these questions are always asked in terms where you should really somehow evaluate every situation in your life that applied to the question, and somehow arrive at a "mean" answer that then informs your response. I find it absolutely impossible to not just think of anecdotes and base my answer on them. Which would be fine, if all my anecdotes lined up, but there's always "Well, that one time I did <i>this</i>, but this other time I did <i>that</i>, which is basically opposite!"
44. It seems everyone loves taking these tests. For some of us it's a means of asserting 'I'm normal,' whereas others seem to take pleasure in 'being different.'<p>I dread these kinds of tests now, because after over a year of therapy, I can still tell the outcome, and I know nothing changed :-| Yet still, it fascinates me.<p>The Myers-Briggs test follows a similar style. I'm gonna assume that a great many people on HN are going to score INTP on that one… Just a hunch!
43. Well then.<p>I find that a lot of the questions are things that I can do, I just have to think about it, where other people can do it automatically. For example, telling someone's emotions from looking at their face: all people look pretty much the same to me; I can barely tell two different faces apart, much less one face in different moods, unless I think about it.
31, which is a Mersenne prime number, and Marin Mesenne lived to be 59 years old which is also a prime number and 59 is the bus route I take on Wednesdays because I like to sit in the 3rd row, aisle seat, right after I eat my sandwich, and please don't sit next to me, that seat is taken.
20. I often find these kinds of tests hard, since there is too little context. Do I enjoy parties? No, not if I don't know people. Yes, if i have some friends I'll be dancing on the tables.
29<p>But I don't care what it means and don't buy the autism hype.<p>"The Truth Wears Off" <a href="http://crayz.org/science.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://crayz.org/science.pdf</a> seems relevant here. Many early studies and experiments based on fresh theories produce dramatic results, but decades later, when experiments are repeated the results are still there, but less dramatic.<p>Hype and bias affect which tests get popularized. Also a good explanation for the ADD/depression medication craze.
I got a 28. My wife works with kids with autism in an elementary school and she often talks about how I'm towards that end of the spectrum.<p>I tend to answer questions towards the extremes which is the only thing this test scores as "points", but I guess that's a legitimate marker for someone being more autistic than average.
Did anyone else find it disagreeable that Q.24 asks whether you'd rather go to the theater than the museum? I really like both - if I had to choose in a real life situation, I'd have to know what's showing at the theater and compare it to what exhibitions are on at the museum before making up my mind. Libraries and parties (Q.13) was also difficult for me; it all depends on which library we're talking about vs. who's throwing a party and who'll be there.<p>I ended up with a score of 34; same as last time I answered the questionnaire.
I got a 26, but I answered the questions as my current self and not who I used to be. If I had answered them as I was when I was a freshman in college I would have scored much higher.
such bs.<p>issue 1 w/ test:
>> I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own.
Well, it depends. I may like to code by myself and but prefer group s*x.
Context is everything.<p>issue 2 w/ test:
Can be totally gamed. A prerequisite for a good test is that you should not be able to guess the right/wrong answer.
10.<p>This quiz has the benefit of actual experts on the condition involved. A lot of "autism tests" online basically test for being an introverted geek, and a lot of the pop psych discussion strikes me as an effort to dismiss introversion, geekiness, and intellectualism as medical conditions.
At first I misread the start of the first paragraph as "Psychologist Sasha Baron-Cohen" and wondered what kind of test I was about to see.<p>34, anyway. I was diagnosed with HFA about eight years ago and probably would have scored considerably higher at that time.
Scored 27, should I be worried? I remember doing this test before but my score must have lowered, since I have changed the answers to some questions with time
I scored a 40, function in what I would call a normal way (normal job, normal pay, normal ... I guess) should I have reason for concern? should I see a doc?