AQ-10, a quick test to check if you should get checked out

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AQ-10, a quick referral guide for adults with suspected autism who do not have a learning disability.
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG142/AQ10Test/pdf/English (updated 27th of June, 2012)

There are all these tests you can take to check if its likely you are autistic or not, this test however only checks to see if you should go get assessed. Only 10 questions, if you get 6 or more points, you should consider getting a diagnostic assessment at a specialist.

Disclaimer; I havn't seen this test before, I do not know if it is new or not.

Seems to be the most important questions from the AQ test (50 in that one. 10 in this one); it's from the same people.

Reasonably accurate for what it's intended.

Nice idea, but I like the longer version better.

If on the short version thinks about him/herself different in 2-3 questions then the chance is much higher that they are accidently "positive" or "negative".

Sometimes you can trim down a longer test to make it shorter, without decreasing its effectiveness very much.

For example: On a hypothetical test, 95% of the people who answer "Yes" to question 10 also answer "Yes" to question 30 and "No" to question 41. You could have only a very small drop in effectiveness if you combined those three questions into one or dropped all but one of them. Redundant questions of this sort can be used to test whether the person is paying attention to the test enough to answer consistently, but if you want a shorter test, they can be taken out without too much damage.

I got 10 out of 10, I don't think I've ever done that well on a test before

True, and in addition there might be questions in the long tests created to take the focus of the actual purpose of the test, to avoid the testee to answer according to what he think will give him the result he desire (the EQ test contains ~10% questions of that kind, questions that actually won't affect the score at all).

I got 42/50 on the AQ test, while I got 8/10 (the same as 40/50) on the AQ-10 test.

Last edited by Blownmind on 10 Jul 2012, 5:49 am, edited 1 time in total.

Agreed

I don't trust tests too much in generall.
They should just be used as a screening instrument, but in reallity that's not the purpose most of the time.

When I was younger I didn't noticed that my social understanding is just not the same as this of other people. When I was asked, I answered that my socials and emotional understanding are good. I just came out that this was not the case when I was tested in those areas.

I don't like it too much when psychiatrists are thinking to find out the correct diagnoses when asking 2-3 questions and nearly good wrongly diagnosed because of that in the past, because they didn't saw the "big picture", the reasons for my behavior, they were too fixated on 2-3 questions and that's all.
Afterwards I explained myself and my reasons so that I got the correct diagnoses. But still that scared me.

I got 9. The only one I didn't get a point for was this. I'm not sure I understand it but I don't think I do it.

"I like to collect information about categories of things (e.g. types of car, types of bird, types of train, types of plant etc)"

Hmm, 10/10.

10/10, when do I collect my prize?

Took the AQ before. Roughly the same results this time. Glad to see I haven't changed.

Edit: 9/10 in case anyone cares.

Last edited by johnsmcjohn on 11 Jul 2012, 1:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Your official Aspie toaster in the form of a train will arrive shortly.

Some of those questions could definitely be answered with "it depends"

Not a fan of this particular test.

Can mine be a cat instead? I like cats better than trains.

A cat in the shape of a toaster or a toaster in the shape of a cat?