Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?) • Hacker News Board

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by rue » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:48 PM UTC

27. Not really stressful.

I chose overly negative options in a couple cases and thought it might be showing a self-esteem pattern but subsequently I noticed that I misjudged the assertive ones (I think selecting a "interested"-type option instead). I dunno what, if anything, that indicates.

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by sliceof314 » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:49 PM UTC

23 here, i'm off to watch jeopardy at 5 o'clock! and then it's judge Wapner...

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by rue » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:50 PM UTC

wtracy wrote: post #12

For the first half of the test, I was kicking myself over the number I got wrong, but my final score placed me as above average. Actually, after I started mousing over the images to see full-size, and spending several seconds studying each face, I was almost always correct. Yay for me.

I think I did "better" with the small images, the large ones leading to overanalysis perhaps?

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by m-photonic » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:50 PM UTC

makmanalp wrote: post #19

Is it only me who finds it difficult to label expressions just in eyes, when it feels like an image of the overall face would be much clearer?

I think that's rather the point of the test.

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by david55475 » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:52 PM UTC

dageshi wrote: post #15

jdietrich wrote: post #9

Prediction: The average HNer will score significantly higher than the general average. I hypothesise that the social issues geeks experience are predominantly caused by hypersensitivity to the emotions of others, rather than insensitivity; In keeping with the Dunning-Kruger hypothesis we tend to underestimate our ability to empathise, thereby causing us to overanalyse social situations, leading to anxiety and paralys…

Spot on. 30 out of 36.

35 out of 36. I've often thought I was hypersensitive about things/people, and I'm always concerned with what other people are feeling, even more than my (female) partner :)

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by jessewmc » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:52 PM UTC

33/36. Found it stressful.

I felt like I was picking the desired answer, not reading an actual emotion. An artifact of the test maybe. The expressions read artificial to me--like pictures of actors or models. Not sure what that says.

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by alex_c » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:53 PM UTC

tcskeptic wrote: post #8

34/36 I did not find it stressful. I think that was because of the instant feedback, though if I had been getting questions wrong, that would have made things much worse than just finding out at the end.

Same... and I was only way off on one of them. Not stressful, although I was getting impatient cause I should be working instead :p

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by m-photonic » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:54 PM UTC

It would be nice if they'd tell us the standard deviation in addition to the averages. I got 19, which puts me below the mean for the Asperger/HFA population, but I'm fairly sure I'm not in that category. Really, the two averages are barely more than four points apart, which is a rather modest interval compared to the range of scores that's been reported in this thread so far.

Edit: It'd also be cool if they gave us more data than just the total number correct. Like, which emotions was I the best at recognizing? How well did I do with male faces as compared with female faces? Etc.

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by ratsbane » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:55 PM UTC

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #10

cb33 wrote: post #6

I got just about average (26) but I would be interested to see if HN has an inordinate amount of people coming in around the low 20's.

I also got a 26. Apparently I'm not as good at reading people as I thought...

Also 26. The average on HN seems a bit higher. I wonder if there's some selection bias towards reporting higher answers.

Re: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

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Post by david55475 » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:55 PM UTC

makmanalp wrote: post #19

Is it only me who finds it difficult to label expressions just in eyes, when it feels like an image of the overall face would be much clearer?

One little bit of difficulty I had was that, while the original image was a bit too small, the zoomed-in one was (I felt) too big - I would have preferred an image size somewhere in-between.