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Take The AQ Test

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher.

I scored a 21, but I’d be really curious to see how someone else (say, The Wife) would score me.

Update: Turns out I score a 24 with The Wife answering for me. I’ll take it.

Posted in Curiosities, She Blinded Me.

19 comments

By Jake – 03/29/2006

19 Responses

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  1. Chris says

    I’m a 21 too. I know if I study I can do better.

    03/29/2006, 11:30 AM
  2. Jake says

    Yeah… Definitely good for a 37… Definitely.

    03/29/2006, 1:22 PM
  3. cring says

    17 – i hate being average!

    03/29/2006, 1:49 PM
  4. The Wife says

    Yeah, I scored a 7. What’s the opposite of autistic?

    03/29/2006, 2:14 PM
  5. Jake says

    Shouldn’t you, of all people, know that?! ;)

    03/29/2006, 2:58 PM
  6. Chris says

    Isn’t the opposite of Autistic Artistic?

    03/29/2006, 3:41 PM
  7. Jenn says

    Uh oh, I got a 27. I should probably get bonus points too, for enjoying taking quizzes like that so much.

    03/29/2006, 4:10 PM
  8. hanh says

    Hmmm, i got a 31. What does that really mean? Funny, I just read a book two weeks ago about a 12 year old kid with Asperger’s.

    03/29/2006, 9:20 PM
  9. Jake says

    Dude. You are right on the hazy borderlands between OCD and Autism! ;)

    03/29/2006, 9:56 PM
  10. ed says

    so yeah, i scored a 33 and i was being honest. truth be told i have always felt a kinship with autistic kids. there is a whole thing about a two dimensional world and attempting to impliment a learn framework of importance to it that i won’t get into because it is way strange. but yeah here i am…

    when is doug flutie going to raise me some money?

    03/31/2006, 5:26 PM
  11. ed says

    just finished reading a great little book called ‘the curious incident of the dog in the night-time’. it is written from the perspective of an autistic person and i am definately not autistic. wierd yes, but then you knew that. high rec on reading it btw.

    04/11/2006, 6:11 PM
  12. Jake says

    Funny. I think I have that in my pile. I’ll bump it up a bit.

    04/11/2006, 7:32 PM
  13. ed says

    bump it up a lot. you can read it in about four hours.

    04/12/2006, 2:52 PM
  14. Jake says

    That means it’ll take me a week.

    04/12/2006, 5:06 PM
  15. ed says

    how many books can you read in a week?

    04/12/2006, 5:26 PM
  16. Jake says

    I’m a slow reader, dude. Plus I usually only read when I go to bed, which isn’t conducive to quick progress.
    It generally takes me at least a month to finish the average novel.

    04/12/2006, 7:18 PM
  17. ed says

    change the emphasis on some of the syllables in that question so that it reads; ‘how many books can you say you can read in a week.’

    04/14/2006, 4:48 AM
  18. Audra says

    I scored a 38.

    09/17/2008, 9:45 PM

Continuing the Discussion

  1. Vivre La Différence » AQ Tests and the EQ SQ tests linked to this post on 04/17/2006

    [...] Looking at recent blog discussion of the AQ tests, such as this one at Blahstuff, there’s been a number of interesting responses. One very amusing idea was to take the test personally and then ask the wife to take it on his behalf: that gets rid of at least some of the bias from any self-administered personality test. Dave thought that his geekiness tainted the results…umm, Dave, geekiness is a form of that male brain type thing which is why the EQ and SQ tests might be more appropriate. For Tzemach Atlas, no, Simon Baron-Cohen is Ali G’s cousin, not brother. Bowleserised added a request to include the last book that the testee had read to their results. Not quite sure what that means except that one of the commenters actually had his passport application signed by Simon B-C. [...]



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