RazorEddie wrote:
Do you have any details on this research? It looks very interesting.
If you look through his original papers, Prof Simon B-C admits his results are not very conclusive and that this test is not very accurate. I included this test on the Aspie Tests website because as far as I know it doesn't appear anywhere else. I have to say I do find the Aspie tests results intriguing. When I created that version of the test I added a timer, expecting Aspies to be significantly slower than NTs. The actual results seem to indicate otherwise.
I think Noetic may have a very good point. I do well on this type of test but in real life I have failed pretty spectacularly sometimes. There is a huge difference between an on-line test and real life where you aren't concentrating specifically on interpreting emotions and lots of other things are happening at the same time.
There are a few other possible problems with this test:
You do also have to wonder how many of the people who say they are NT actually are. People have to take these tests for a reason and I don't see that many NTs who are mostly unaware of Autism are likely to ever take them. If you look at the results of some of the other tests a significant number of 'NT's score very high on the AQ, RAADS etc. Another problem is the sample size. As very few NTs take the tests, a few low scorers will significantly affect the results.
i read most of it in "Delusions of Gender" by Cordelia Fine. she doesn't do any original research herself, but she compiles and explains a massive amount of information from credible sources. she is able to find a great deal of information that fairly clearly explains that "male" and "female" minds are sociocultural constructs and not biological realities.
Cordelia is well worth reading just because of the treatment the "extreme male brain" gets in her book.
http://www.cordeliafine.com/delusions_of_gender.htmlQuote:
NEW "Cordelia Fine's first book, the highly acclaimed A Mind of Its Own, had as a general theme the foundation-shaking notion that you hitherto haven't had nearly as much control over your opinions as you thought. In Delusions of Gender, she turns this scholarly bulldozer on scientific claims of inherent differences between female and male cognitive abilities. ...Fine's discussion is about much more than just neuroscientific studies of gender differences - for starters, it contains an excellent introduction to the scientific method in general. The style is reminiscent of Ben Goldacre's Bad Science; at times sardonic, at others fantastically funny. ... Fine herself notes that it's hard to convince anyone that there is much new to say about gender, but she has met that challenge, bringing the paradigm shift of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch to the scientifically-minded audience of the 21st century."
British Neuroscience Association Bulletin
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