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What's your autism quotient? (link updated)

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I can't take tests like these without analyzing how each answer affects the outcome, and I don't trust my subconscious to keep its mitts off my answers when it knows how to game the test.

That sounds pretty autistic to me...

I got 14, and I'm the same way - I'm curious about gaming the test:-)

50 screens? Merely completing it is a sufficient test. They should have just put all the questions on one page.

(If anyone wants to do that, I'll switch the link.)

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html looks to be the same questions in a different order.

http://www.isle-of-avalon.co.uk/cgi-bin/aq.cgi - here's a fixed version of that one. It doesn't look very pretty, but it does the job.

edit: if anyone else wants to host it, drop me an email and I'll send you the source.

When you calculate the score can you add what it means?

Well, the original test was kind of vague about what it means (and because I don't have a working Flash, I can't see what this one says about it). I can mention the "the neurotyp mean score was 16.4, but 80% of aspies scored above 32" bit though.

edit: done

Darn it, you're probably right. I was so proud of myself for only scoring 20, toward the upper end of "average". But that may be average only for people who will answer all 50 questions.

This test also fails to take into account the "grumpy old bastard" effect.

I won't announce my score, other than it in the set of the Nth-prime-numbers where N is also prime.

PS - there are 50 questions, but they don't require whole-page refreshes.

PPS - I'm not suggesting you are a grumpy old man!

> I won't announce my score, other than it in the set of the Nth-prime-numbers where N is also prime.

With a statement like that, I'd suggest that stating a score is superfluous anyway.

Do you count 2 as the 1st prime or the 0th?

I'm using 2 as the first prime.

The top score was 50 right? If so I've narrowed your score down to: 17, 31, or 41.

I think we can safely eliminate 17 ;-)

I'm going submit 31 as my guess. Am I correct? What do I win?

The flash test is adaptive but uses your IP address to keep your question set the same for your test, in case you pick different answers the next time you take the test :-)

(my score : 13)

..I'm a very good driver, only drive on the driveway, only drive on Saturdays...

I got a 23 too! Definitely got 23 ..

10. For a lot of the questions I wanted to answer "it depends". Social situations, for example, can be very fun or very boring, depending on my mood and the people involved.

I'm not sure how well the test distinguishes between those who are actually autistic, and those who simply cannot bear social situations under any circumstances.

(I'm also not happy about the lack of distinction between "x" and "strongly x". There ought to be some gradation.)

Here's one that doesn't require Flash: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html . Unfortunately they've misconfigured their website, so you get the source of the results calculator rather than the result; but if you copy aqtest.html and aq.cgi to a handy local webserver (and change the perl path), it works out.

Not sure if it's the same test or not, of course! If it is, I scored 37.

More reliable test:

<html> <body> <b>Your autism score is:</b> <div id="op">0</div><br /> <input type="button" value="Click This!" onclick="javascript:upd();"> </body>

38. I don't act nearly that autistic, though. I think that's mostly through training. You wouldn't guess that score if you met me.

That's a pretty interesting point, actually. I used to be HORRIBLE in pretty much any social situation, but then I decided to make social psychology a "hobby" of mine, and learned to pick up cues (facial tics, body language, etc...) about what people were telling me with their body, tone of voice and vocal mannerisms; and after doing that for a few years, social things became much much easier for me.

I kind of went the opposite way; after many years of trying to be OK in social situations and more or less pulling it off, I finally admitted to myself that actually, but for the societal conditioning that people without rich and varied social lives are somehow missing something, I really don't like having people around me for any great length of time... and ok, my ability to cope in social situations is more or less shot, but the rest of the time (which for me, is the majority of the time) I'm a lot happier - and the rare times when I do get a feeling of wishing there was someone close to talk to, I know that it's usually because I'm bored, and finding something to do will send it on its way.

Indeed. My family, who basically haven't really known me since I left home, are sure I do have Asperger's; my friends, all of whom have only known me since I've lived alone, are equally sure I don't (although they will happily describe me as 'odd' or 'weird').

What's your ADHD quotient? I clicked 3 radio buttons before deciding I don't care about my quotient.

Best question, "are you fascinated with dates?" (Y) & "do you collect facts & information" (Y) ...32 ... so that means what? I'm always a bit sus of these tests anyway. Now to go add this to my blog post ...

>are you fascinated with dates?

Dates, dates, or dates?

Dates. Specifically the second one.

Yeah good point. All of them, Bit of a sweet tooth so 'dates' are definitely in, "dates", ISO8601, yes. Even getting a "Date" with Perl! ~ http://datetime.perl.org/?Modules

I got a 26, I kind of wonder how these scores correlate to a Myers-Briggs profile (INTJ here).

I'm guessing the I's will have higher score than the E's since this appears to be mostly related to introvert vs. extrovert categorization.

INFP here (but see previous comment).

edit: ...or possibly ISFP...

I scored 26 as well. INTP: the cause of and solution to all of my problems.

just from memory, they ask if you can remember long digit strings, and if you take time to return from distractions. being good at hacking involves both. is this a self-selecting pool of people with more autistic traits?

What I found curious about this test is that I think many of my answers have changed over time. I scored an 18 today, but I bet I would have scored somewhere in the high 20's when I was a kid.

Interestingly, a few years ago I took the same test and scored 20 (vs. 37 just now)... on the other hand, I seem to come out with a different MBTI result every time I take that test too. Perhaps I have DID :)

35 .....interesting

Damn, I got 17 the exact average.

Me too - I feel so average.

Heh its a a Cosmo quiz for geeks :P

16 too

28.

John.

28 here, too.

[insert random speculation here about average score of successful yc alums]

YC should put this on their application. It would be interesting to see a PG essay on it someday. "Autism doesn't matter" :-)

hrm, 21

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