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Ask HN: What is your AQ?

3 pointsybd11 comments

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html I'm curious if the overall AQ here is what I'd expect it to be, given that this is Hacker News.

Edit: BTW I got a 42 on this. I'm honestly not that surprised because I have always considered myself severely socially awkward. I don't have many friends and whichever friends I do have aren't particularly close.

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30 - I actively 'dislike' social situations that require the well-worn path of meeting someone, breaking through the glass wall of politeness and actually talking about something interesting and pretending to be interested in what they are saying. Concurrently I am trying to ensure I am projecting the mannerisms of someone that is interested while waiting for conversation signals that they are: interested, disinterested, hungry, thirsty, a douchebag etc

Sometimes its just seems like so much work.

Score: 26. Anxious wreck. Hate talking to people, they love talking to me. Crave attention from people, but shy away when they show it. Statistics nerd, but not too overboard. Also, sense more things than the average person... very aware about the environment around me and how it effects me or could possibly effect me. Autistic? Nah. Anxious, shy, interesting, and able to communicate, yah.

i'll second that for score and sensibilities, though I prefer code and politics to statistics.

32. I have trouble with social situations, especially discerning nonverbal reactions or ironic speech, but enjoy fiction and stories about people. I love proofs, argument, and reasoning about systems, but suck at numbers and dates. Overall I'd say I'm "normal"--just analytical and sometimes awkward.

Me too! I wager you would fall in the INTJ spectrum too like me. I like this kind of stuff as it gives me clues on what I should probably be looking for when dealing with people.

It also gives clues into other other people and what their motives may be.

Yup. Strong INTJ here. If I recall our earlier polls correctly, there are a lot of NTs on HN.

I got 30. People have remarked that I seem annoyed when I talk to people, as if their conversation is bothering me, even though it isn't.

Anyone else annoyed by the fact that they spent some mental effort to choose between "slightly" and "definitely", only have them weighted the same?

17. Very close to control group. I work in an organization with someone who is a sys/server admin that seems very autistic but is fully functional. I think he's married and has kids. I think slight Autistic tendencies and IT seem to mesh well.

Man, that's boring: I scored 19 :( I've always seen myself as an introvert and self-centered guy, but I seem to work very well on social stuff, it's like some superpower I refuse to acknowledge.

Agree: 2,4,5,6,12,13,16,21,23,46: 1 point Disagree: 1,8,10,14,15,29,30,34,37,40: 1 point Score: 20

Agree: 5,6,7,12,16,18,19,23,42,43: 1 point Disagree: 8,17,30,32: 1 point Score: 14

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