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| sfuqua Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4768 days ago 581 posts - 977 votes  Speaks: English*, Hawaiian, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 39 23 December 2012 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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As a part of 23andme research, I recently took a test called the Systemizing Quotient. My results were:
(quote) About Total Score The Systemizing Quotient-Revised Version, developed by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, assesses drive to construct systems or to predict the behavior of a system. The revised version was first published in Brain Research in 2006. You scored 85 out of 150 possible points. You scored 85 out of 150 possible points. On average, men scored about 61 and women scored about 52. In the research used to validate this test, individuals with Asperger's syndrome or high functioning autism scored about 77 on average. This is not a formal diagnosis of autism or an autism spectrum disorder. (quote) I wonder if scores like this might be common among people who love language learning. steve 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 39 23 December 2012 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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It might help if you posted a link here.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 39 23 December 2012 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've found this one for example: test
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 4 of 39 23 December 2012 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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that's a different test but whatever:
Your score: 33 0 - 19 = low 20 - 39 = average (most women score about 24 and most men score about 30) 40 - 50 = above average (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score in this range) 51 - 80 is very high (three times as many people with Asperger Syndrome score in this range, compared to typical men, and almost no women score in this range) 80 is maximum (female, in case anyone is wondering) This makes sense, given that I study applied linguistics (which in Russia has nothing to do with language teaching and is all about APPLIED linguistics - computational etc). Languages for the sake of languages would be boring for me, I need an additional element which is hard to pinpoint. Maths/technology/programming/science - take each of these separately, and I'm not that good at it, but I need something like this in my life. I recently got a job in spam analysis, which is quite a fantastic option for me. Edited by Serpent on 23 December 2012 at 10:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4603 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 39 23 December 2012 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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on the linked test I scored 41 out of 80, but I dont think I understand what this test means :/
EDIT: retook and its been some 12 hours, and this time I scored 45 Edited by zerrubabbel on 24 December 2012 at 10:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5769 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 39 23 December 2012 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Took it once with my current mood and once trying to account for my mood bias and it seems that I oscillate between 45 and 55 in self-report. It would probably be less on a test with a six point scale. I'm female so I surely know how to do the empathy stuff :P
Some older threads about the implication of ASD were: Aspergers have a natural talent Are We Sane? Gender and language obsession ... with all their controversies.
Empathizing–systemizing theory Edited by Bao on 23 December 2012 at 11:39pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| anamsc2 Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4562 days ago 85 posts - 186 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan, German Studies: French | Message 7 of 39 24 December 2012 at 1:15am | IP Logged | ||
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I scored a 46 (on the test that's out of 80), which I guess is high (I'm female and I don't have Aspergers or anything). I guess it'd be interesting to see if other language learners have high scores, but I don't necessarily see why they would.
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| sfuqua Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4768 days ago 581 posts - 977 votes Speaks: English*, Hawaiian, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 39 24 December 2012 at 6:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not autistic at all; I know some autistic people and I'm not that. I am famous (in my family) for becoming "obsessed" with figuring out systems. I have a background in computers and linguistics, and I enjoy learning languages. I am a nerdy kind of guy; learning a foreign language was a way to change myself from "nerd" in English to "mysterious foreigner" in my second language.
Enjoying studying languages is considered weird by most people; I just wondered if this test measures something that might be a common factor... I certainly enjoy discovering the "system" in a new language. steve 1 person has voted this message useful |
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