why is my reading the mind in the eyes test score so low?

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Well, first, let's put up a correct link....

http://www.questionwritertracker.com/qu ... K3TKB.html

I got 33 of 36. 26.2 to 21.9 is the normal range for people with AS or HFA.

Now, for the criticisms....

1. For me (at 44 and having watched a lot of TV/movies), the test was too easy. I've seen these "eyes" many times in dramatic rendition. You kinda pick up what it means after a while.

2. The test is not timed. I was free to examine the photos for as long as I wanted. In real life, I can be clueless about things because I'm dealing with MY interaction with other people in REAL TIME. It's easy to spot things correctly when you have all the time in the world to render a judgment and/or you're not wasting "processing power" on figuring out how to respond in REAL TIME.

3. The correct answer was largely predictable. Two of each four word group are clearly not correct...the third wrong choice could be picked as a viable option to the correct choice (e.g., a person who is ashamed would not make eye contact with the camera...typically they look to the ground, so it never came up as a correct answer). The three I got wrong was mostly me second-guessing my first choice.

If I was given 5 seconds to look at the photo ONCE and then had 5 seconds to choose my answer, I'm sure I would have gotten a significantly lower score.

that makes it worse for me as i was avaging 1 minute per question.

28. I seem to have improved in the time since I last took that test.

I scored a 13 as well, I do remember scoring 16 on it in the past though.

26 and I'm fairly intuitive.

I started off doing really well and then I started responding carelessly because I found the test was taking too long. I didn't enjoy it at all. Maybe it's a reason why you didn't do so well?

I think I averaged one minute per question also. that level of performance is totally not useful in the real world.

I got a 24, I found I could eliminate about 2 of the alternatives fairly quickly, which makes it much easier.

I found it much harder with the womens faces.

But in the real world you don't need to know the exact word for an emotion to "feel" it and react to it. I have a hunch these emotion reading quizzes test for alexithymia which is partly a deficit in emotive vocabulary. Of course there are some people who say the eyes all look the same. They would not be reading at all.

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I used to think that.

Think what?

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I used to think that all people's eyes [aside from color] looked basically the same to me, in terms of their expressions.

I just scored 22.

dont feel bad; i scored a 10 on this test...
i examined the eyes for an average of 5 minutes per question, and came to the conclusion that the 'correct' answer was "none of the above" on the vast majority of pictures. so i picked the 3-rd best one in my mind (the most logical one from the options) and i got the exact opposite of what it was supposed to be... how is giving someone a deathstare 'flirtatious'? :puzzled:...

How do you do in real life? I know it's hard to tell if you're perceiving others accurately, but when you get feedback on it, how accurate are you?

i have learned other methods to determine emotional states; usually i'm pretty accurate in determining basic emotions and reacting to it (although flirting and all of its simular forms are still lost one me).
the reading the eyes test however locked all those methods (stance, tone of voice, direction of focus...) away and only focussed on the eyes, which is about the only thing i do *not* use. can you determing what language is spoken by looking at mouths?