How accurate is the Aspie Quiz?

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How accurate is the Aspie Quiz? I know it is not supposed to take the place of a diagnosis by a medical professional, but in your opinion, how on-target are the questions? How accurate--or true for you-- are the results for you? Are you comfortable saying you have Asperger's based on the quiz?

I am referring to the latest version, which is, I guess, the final version. http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

Last edited by ngonz on 26 Dec 2008, 4:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.

which one? There's several (one is in the Members Only forum, I think), that indicate tendencies and indications, but no test is perfect. But it's possibly they can also indicate that you may be AS...

Here are my results.

Your Aspie score: 120 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 92 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits

I hadn't done this final version before, but these results are consistent with my results on previous versions. I'm 40 now and if I'd done this quiz when in my teens or twenties my aspie score would've been higher.

It has also occurred to me, having done this version, that I'm rarely in social situations so although I said I coped with them ok that is perhaps more wishful thinking on my part than reality.

Edited to add:

I don't remember the question about making traps before. I was obsessed with traps when I was a child, and would make traps and leave them lying around. Never caught anything though, which was probably just as well. I lived on a farm, and there were old gin traps and various other old traps about which I would clean up and play with. My mother tended to discourage this as she was concerned that my sister or I would end up getting hurt.

Last edited by Marcia on 26 Dec 2008, 5:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It worked for me pretty well, but only after I realized that I needed to change the way I think about the quiz before taking it. The quiz wants your gut response to questions, but when I took it the first time I was giving trained responses. Questions like "would you rather go to a party or go to the library". My gut response is the library, but I've trained myself to go to parties at any opportunity for the networking potential, because I know that I'm really bad at networking. But that's a rationalized answer, which isn't what they want. Once I realized that I needed to think about the answer more and give a gut response, then I think it was pretty accurate.

The RDOS aspie quiz is very accurate.

http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

The questions are mostly based around DSM IV and are similar, in some cases identical, to those used by many doctors who make a diagnosis based mostly on observations/quiz results in adults.

Is it perfect... no... but it is the next best thing to a proper diagnosis - and certainly a good starting point provided that you answer honestly.

I think the test is extremely accurate after having to look up how the scoring is calculated in detail since I was challenged on this subject by another poster some time back.
Having said that the scores really mean nothing as both 'normal' and 'abnormal' people have an almost equal chance of arriving at exactly the same scores.
Read the disclaimers for the tests. This is just a test and by itself it means almost nothing without additional data.

Last edited by garyww on 26 Dec 2008, 10:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.

When I first suspected my younger son might have Asperger's, he took this test and scored 147, identical to his older brother who is a confirmed high functioning autistic. Then we took the test questions and results to his psychologist, who told us that the questions are valid and the test results pointed us in the right direction. He did confirm that my boy has Asperger's, by his own observations, my boy's medical history and finally, as kind of the final straw, the Aspie quiz test questions and results.

I didn't think it was that accurate because the last time I took it I scored 190 out of 200. I didn't think I had that many Aspie traits. But then again maybe I didn't understand enough about it.

I plan on bringing my detailed results for that quiz to my upcoming evaluation. So, I really hope it's pretty accurate or at least some-what useful.

I think the test is as accurate as your honesty, something like your mental state may give a higher test result for aspieness.

I was comforted in my official DXing when he pulled this test out of a stack of various tests and said, "let's see what you do with this one" I already knew I would do a 182!

Merle

I agree that it is as accurate as the person taking it. It does build on "knowing yourself" to some degree, and people in deep denial might get incorrect results. It is also correct that people should answer on their "gut feelings" and older people often do best by thinking back to their teens, which usually is the period when the Aspie traits cause the most obvious problems.

I've just taken the test and got 185.
I think it's very accurate.

Charlie x

I think the quiz is quite accurate. I've got an aspie score of 182/200, sometimes higher, and that's quite true, I think. The questions are clear and relevant. Though it might be good if there were some more, the test could be more accurate in that case. I think this is one of the few quizzes that are actually good and accurate. A lot of tests on the internet are not more than rubbish.

It seems that way, pair my "you are very likely an aspie' with my partner's 'you are very likely neurotypical' .... she is Deaf so I wondered if that would skew her responses to the aspie end (like being less social than most NTs and such).

A good idea. I already wrote a 5 page letter for mine, plus 3 more pages of documents on another topic where 2 therapists (one a PhD) used phrases about me that are spot-on with what the DSM lists. This would make another good attachment though.