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As a generalization, how accurate is the Aspie Quiz?

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18 Apr 2009, 6:03 pm

As far as online quizzes go, it's probably the best one out there



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18 Apr 2009, 6:49 pm

It could be accurate, then again - it could be flawed. Whatever your results are, anything on the internet should only be taken as a "hint".

Only a professional can make a real, impartial, diagnosis. And since you are going to see one, you will get a real diagnosis soon.

I've done both the AQ test (wired) and the quiss named in this thread and both say "you are close to..." and the other one says "You are very likely an aspie". I do not know what to make of it, but given the symptoms i've noticed about myself and what my friends have told me about myself, i am higly suspicious.

Myself i've done 50% of the WAIS test and are going to do the other half now on monday, will get the results next month... Sure, i could have take the tests as a "scientific fact" like some prefer to do, but i think self diagnosis could be self delusion and only an impartial (and trained) professonal could make a fair diagnosis.

So, even if a person got a high Aspie score on this particular web-test (or not), i would not recommend betting any money on the results just yet...

or like Shakespeare put it:
-"To Thine Own Self, Be True"


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18 Apr 2009, 7:04 pm

Even if the quiz applies to other conditions. is still relevant, it says "you are on this spectrun, where you have AS, bipolar disorder, or you are simply a shy introvert" , the name of the "thing" you have is not important, it's the symptoms, the way we see the world. I'm sure a lot of the people in here don't have AS, yet they relate to the others.



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18 Apr 2009, 8:44 pm

Your Aspie score: 174 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 22 of 200

I'm undiagnosed, i'm seriously considering getting diagnosed as you know your bad when a, you have an aspie friend and b, he's a better conversationalist than you :lol:



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18 Apr 2009, 10:42 pm

happypuff wrote:
As far as online quizzes go, it's probably the best one out there


yeah. i think so too.



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18 Apr 2009, 11:38 pm

oh gosh i hope it is so i could show it too a psychologist some day and get diagnosed.
i believe its accurate cuz i made my sister take it and she got an NT score
i got an aspie score 150.
sooo i really really hope so.



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18 Apr 2009, 11:44 pm

The AQ test is probably a better one; Cohen, the writer of said test, found that about 50% of those who surpass the PDD threshold have a PDD (26 is the threshold).



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19 Apr 2009, 12:27 am

The instrument isn't the only thing a clinician uses; there's also your history and observation from the conversations the clinician is having with you. If you don't display PDD behavior but score above the threshold, it may be that you don't have a PDD.

Baron-Cohen's AQ led me to get a diagnosis, and then about a year later my parents mentioned that they were told that I very likely had autism as a child, but as I was born in 1983, it wasn't well known yet.

I score as having AS, although I'm pretty sure my diagnosis under the DSM-III was atypical autism. When I was re-diagnosed last year I was diagnosed with AS.



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19 Apr 2009, 1:35 am

I scored a 182 on the test, is this uncommonly high?



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19 Apr 2009, 1:47 am

Rordiway wrote:
I scored a 182 on the test, is this uncommonly high?


it is what I scored.
If it goes up to 200 it is probably 'high'.

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19 Apr 2009, 1:53 am

Rordiway wrote:
I scored a 182 on the test, is this uncommonly high?


I think anyone who scores within the Asperger's range probably scores uncommonly high. That's kind of the point.



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19 Apr 2009, 3:08 am

Ichinin wrote:
It could be accurate, then again - it could be flawed. Whatever your results are, anything on the internet should only be taken as a "hint".

Only a professional can make a real, impartial, diagnosis. And since you are going to see one, you will get a real diagnosis soon.

I've done both the AQ test (wired) and the quiss named in this thread and both say "you are close to..." and the other one says "You are very likely an aspie". I do not know what to make of it, but given the symptoms i've noticed about myself and what my friends have told me about myself, i am higly suspicious.

Myself i've done 50% of the WAIS test and are going to do the other half now on monday, will get the results next month... Sure, i could have take the tests as a "scientific fact" like some prefer to do, but i think self diagnosis could be self delusion and only an impartial (and trained) professonal could make a fair diagnosis.

So, even if a person got a high Aspie score on this particular web-test (or not), i would not recommend betting any money on the results just yet...

or like Shakespeare put it:
-"To Thine Own Self, Be True"


I wholeheartedly agree about the self diagnoses perhaps being self delusional, and am looking forward to getting this resolved professionally ASAP. The quiz was more of a curiosity than anything. I've been getting comments on my behavior my entire life, and was steered in the direction of Asperger's by one of my professors. It would explain many, many things. My lack of social skills/graces, my patterns of speech (highly pedantic, according to some I occasionally speak with an accent, though I don't consciously mean to). The inability to empathize or "read" others, issues with eye contact, "stimming", mild echolalia, repetitive behaviors and interests, the list goes on.

My thanks to everyone who responded.



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19 Apr 2009, 6:36 am

The creator once said that about 16% of people who take the test, and get a scoring favoring Aspie over NT do not have AS. So, according to that, 84% of people who get a score favoring Aspie over NT do have AS.

Now, I don't know if that's true and I really don't care. The test is nice to have because it gives a lot of reality to the symptoms that you read to gain an understanding. When it asks you things like, "Are you naturally afraid of the sound of motorcycles?", it helps clarify things better than just "sensitivity to sound" or whatever else might relate.

Textbook vs Examples. Examples win every time, textbook is just directions.


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19 Apr 2009, 6:47 am

Fo-Rum wrote:
"Are you naturally afraid of the sound of motorcycles?", it helps clarify things better than just "sensitivity to sound" or whatever else might relate.


I agree with this. I had to write comments on a separate paper to explain what i ment with my answer because the questions were so open to interpretation.


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19 Apr 2009, 7:24 am

Your Aspie score: 182 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 26 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

i display so many of the typicaL traits that it isent funny and all my frineds are are eithier nt or there borderline.

i do the shking thing am inteslefocused so much so that when reading the person who speaks to has wave there hand over the book that i am reading at the time any way i thingk that it very acurate as an internet test


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