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 pg » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:55 PM UTC

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…

What is the general average? I didn't make it far enough to get told what the scores mean.

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

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Post by katovatzschyn » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:56 PM UTC

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…

34. I think you might be on to some thing.

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

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Post by muloka » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:59 PM UTC

23 over here.

Of the ones I did get the majority were calculated guesses. I would have scored a lot lower if it wasn't multiple choice... or as my roommate pointed out if there was a fifth option: None of the above.

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

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Post by brettnak » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:59 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.

31... Agreed.

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

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Post by sp332 » Mon, Nov 08, 2010, 11:59 PM UTC

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.

25 - "average" but I'm sure there will be reporting bias in HN comments.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 12:01 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #31

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…

What is the general average? I didn't make it far enough to get told what the scores mean.

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

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Post by tremendo » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 12:01 AM UTC

31. The only stress was that at a point I was alarmed because I felt I was misreading too many.

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

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Post by msbarnett » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 12:03 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #31

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…

What is the general average? I didn't make it far enough to get told what the scores mean.

The general population average is 26.2, and the Aspergers/High-Functioning Autist average is 21.9 according to the end of the test.

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

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Post by rlpb » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 12:05 AM UTC

david55475 wrote: post #30

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.

Agreed. Also, with the image zoomed in, I could no longer see the options, so the entire test was far too taxing UI-wise. And I can't remember my exact score and after clicking Next can't get back to it, even though I assumed I could because it had a Back button before that. I was expecting more information about the score after clicking Next, but all it did was close. And it's unnecessarily in Flash.

This seems very poor for a site that appears to sell software with which to make quizzes.

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

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Post by orangecat » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 12:06 AM UTC

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…

I did a version of this test without instant feedback around a month ago and got 20/36, and just got a 25 on this one.