16 out of 80?
Darn, I was going for 2.
A lot of those questions really don't have any direct bearing on how sorry one feels for people, animals, etc. or how good they are at spotting when someone is angry at them, etc.
An NT has obviously designed a test in such a way as to infer lack of empathy from a lack of other, tangentially related mental traits.
It is like inferring how good someone is at drawing or math by how closely they fall on the autistic spectrum (strictly from questions about sociability).
If NTs are so 'empathic' then how come they have such a hard time feeling us?
Seems to me that 'empathy test' is just a word for NT test.
Or put another way, if you're NT then you're an empathic person (read good person).
If you're not then you're a cold person worthy of NTs scorn.
How, for example, does holding an audiences attention with what you have to say an un-empathic quality?
Seems to me that the NT who designed this test is someone who just doesn't like the spotlight stolen from them by someone that knows more than they do. And so they've devised a test intended to demonize such people as un-empathic.
The whole test seems like a way for NTs to just paint people they don't like as bad.
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I thought I was quite empathetic. Maybe I just don't realise what I miss.
OR maybe you should dispense with self flagellation and consider the possibility that you are being subjected to abuse by NTs working in the field of psychology.