Empathising Quotient and Systemising Quotient (EQ SQ) tests

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If you like taking tests: here's another two, to find out your Empathising Quotient (EQ) and Systemising Quotient (SQ).

The Empathising–Systemising (E-S) theory (Baron-Cohen et al., 2003) seeks to classify people on the basis of their skills in the two factors of empathising and systemising.
Empathising is the drive to identify mental states and respond to these with an appropriate emotion.
Systemising is the drive to analyse systems or construct systems.
The theory attempts to explain the social and communication symptoms in Asperger's Syndrome and High Functioning Autism as deficits and delays in empathising combined with intact or superior systemising.

This theory divides people into 5 groups:
Type E ('female brain'), whose empathising is significantly better than their systemising.
Type S ('male brain'), whose systemising is significantly better than their empathising.
Type B ('balanced brain'), whose empathising is as good as their systemising.
Extreme Type E ('extreme female brain'), whose empathising is above average but whose systemising is challenged.
Extreme Type S ('extreme male brain'), whose systemising is above average but whose empathising is challenged.

The important factor to consider is not your absolute scores, but the difference between the two (EQ - SQ). This indicates whether you have more natural ability as an Empathiser or a Systemiser. If your scores are about the same for your EQ and SQ, then you have well balanced empathising-systemising capabilities.

Here's the EQ SQ tests: EQ SQ tests.

Note: The scores you get on this test are different from the original Baron-Cohen (2003) EQ SQ scores! The SQ has been revised (SQ-R) in 2006 (see Wheelwright et al., 2006).



I scored EQ 40 SQ 104 Extreme Systemising

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I scored a 7 (yes, a 7. As in, severely low) on the EQ test. I had no idea that there were so many things people are "supposed to" understand naturally.

THe SQ test is longer and I do not feel like taking it right now. Maybe tomorrow.

E.Q. 10
S.Q. 91

I'm a typical autie.

very interesting, thanks Scientist.

i scored 20 and 79 for average EQ and SQ respectively, and fall into the category of extreme systemising.

...my score of 20 for EQ is right on the average for someone with AS or HFA yet my score for SQ is considerably higher than average, hehe.

lmao I have an average man's brain

I got 37 on the EQ, 61 on the SQ, which makes me a systemizer.

EQ - 24
SQ - 88

Extreme systemising. Yet people tell me I have loads of empathy! I think I've learned how people tick through years of observing them.

Wait a minute! According to the information in the OP, I'm off the scale as far as systemising goes!

Hmmm ... maybe I will phone my GP on Monday and remind him that I'm still waiting for my autism assessment!

EQ: 9 (yes, nine!)
SQ: 83

Wow. That's embarrassing. I am exceptionally sympathetic, though. And I can transmit that sympathy to a related but not identical situation. So I guess I"m making my way to empathy. Really, really slowly.

EQ - 16
SQ - 90

I found out the SQ test has been revised (SQ-R) in 2006 (Wheelwright et al.). And the online test I linked to here is the revised version. I initially used the original (Baron-Cohen et al., 2003) test scores.
So I corrected the OP text.


I scored EQ 40 SQ 104 Extreme Systemising

So far I'm the winner, regarding SQ scores!

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weird.
eq -- 19
sq -- 96

who knew. i love data. i eat data. i am practically that ugly naked alien from the futurama movie, bender's big break. not the one that goes back in time to meet himself, though. he was gross, but funny. haha. i don't have a splunger.
yeah, i print screened to print out and give to my doctor when i see him again on monday.

EQ = 18
SQ = 73

Extreme Systemizing

Further proof that I am really a man trapped in a woman's body

EQ = 6
SQ = 126

Extreme systemising might, in fact, be too mild a description.

So I'm no longer the winner regarding SQ scores

EQ=11 and SQ=79

i reckon i'd ace it if it was an EIQ (Empathy-Imitation Quotient) Test.

This is from my memory (took these a long time ago):
SQ = 120
EQ = 14

EQ=19/SQ=85 extreme systematizing.

I suspect that the writer of the test is using the term 'precision' incorrectly. I do not think of how 'precisely' mountains are formed, because mountains are formed with neither precision nor accuracy; their form is due entirely to the stochastic forces of glaciers and tectonics in the geographic region they reside in. I do, however, think of HOW a specific mountain was formed when I see it.

Precision is the reason that the can claim that "0%" of women are extreme systematizers, when clearly I and several other women here fall into that category; their level of precision is only the nearest whole number.