gbollard wrote:
The quiz questions relating to hunting are;
207. "ASPIE HUNTING"
208. "Do you enjoy watching a spinning or blinking object?"
209. "Do you have a fascination for slowly flowing water?"
210. "Do you sometimes have an urge to jump over things?"
211. "Do you enjoy mimicking animal sounds?"
212. "Do you enjoy walking on your toes?"
213. "Have you been fascinated about making traps?"
Many of the questions related to Aspie-hunting was first used to test the "Neanderthal Paradigm" (
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/NeanderthalParadigm.html).
Possible hunting links:
208 - Large animals spin in circles to get rid of an attacker on its back.
209 - Habitat preference. Probably related to a desire to lure near water-holes where prey are expected to come to drink.
210 - Jumping up on the back of an animal
211 - Imitating mating calls or alarm calls to try to get closer to a prey
212 - Sneaking
213 - Making traps is a key activity in passive hunting.
When discussing these traits, it is best to view all of the major questions that are related to Aspie hunting. Because this aspect is minor to aspieness, only six quesitions made it into the quiz. Here is a list of major traits, sorted in relevance order:
582. Do you enjoy watching a spinning or blinking object?
533. Do you do any of the following for fun: spin in circles; walk on toes; watch a spinning, blinking or glittering object?
584. Do you enjoy watching or playing with water?
448. Do you have a fascination for slowly flowing water?
629. Do you have a fascination for water?
583. Do you enjoy watching things that shimmer or glitter?
625. Do you enjoy spinning in circles and/or walking on your toes?
580. Do you enjoy spinning in circles?
439. Do you sometimes have an urge to jump over things?
926. Do you enjoy mimicking animal sounds?
468. Do you like to dig holes in the ground?
523. Are you sometimes fearless in situations that can be dangerous?
581. Do you enjoy walking on your toes?
637. Do you enjoy digging?
1167. Do you enjoy throwing things like stones?
438. Do you sometimes have an urge to climb?
872. When you read numbers or single letters, do particular colors or sounds come to mind?
585. Do you like sniffing people or things?
1112. Do you have a fascination with fire?
925. Have you been fascinated about making traps?
284. Are you trying to slow down at work because you run out of things to do?
384. Do you have a fascination for caves?
927. Do you enjoy sneaking through the woods?
639. Do you like Science Fiction?
939. Do you enjoy chasing people or animals?
586. Do you enjoy biting people - if they let you?
635. Do you feel good in mist or fog?
924. Do you enjoy wandering through the woods all by yourself?
539. Do you enjoy lying on the ground looking at the sky?
541. Are you good at sneaking up on people or animals?
199. Do you like animals a lot?
460. Do you have a strong grip?
928. Do you enjoy watching rodeo-riders?
432. Do you have above average physical endurance?
476. Do you have good intuition about how things work?
430. Do you have strong hands?
gbollard wrote:
214. "NT HUNTING"
215. "Do you find it difficult to take messages on the telephone and pass them on correctly?
216. "Do you drop things when your attention is on other things?"
217. "Do you have problems filling out forms?"
218. "Do you find it hard to recognise phone numbers when said in a different way?"
219. "Do you have trouble reading clocks?"
220. "Do you mix up digits in numbers like 95 and 59?"
These traits are related to traditional hunter-gatherer economies that NTs are adapted to. Not having these does not mean you are loousy at math or unable to read, it only means you lack specific adaptations that much of the math and language classes in school are built upon. This group is an indication of dyslexia and dyscalculia.
07 Aug 2008, 7:20 am
