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

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

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Post by msbarnett »

ratsbane wrote: post #29
endlessvoid94 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Quite possibly. The test is also long enough that I probably would have bailed out long before finishing if I had felt I wasn't doing well enough to be curious about the end result.

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

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Post by rlpb »

amadiver wrote: post #7

I'm amazed the message their eyes sent was so clear and nuanced.

Really? I didn't feel that at all, although I did get an above-average score in the end. I felt I could name an emotion with most images, but I found it hard to select an appropriate match from the choices given and was often not satisfied with my answer. Some images I could not read at all.

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

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Post by glhaynes »

As always, it should be noted that it seems likely that people who got high scores would be more likely to post theirs (few people like to show off as below-average!), which is one reason taking an average of the scores posted on this page isn't indicative of an HN average score.

(Me, I got 26. They don't call me Mr. Average for nothin'.)

EDIT: If I'd gotten 25, do you think I'd have included that last line?

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

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Post by PixelRobot »

shib71 wrote: post #16
vessenes wrote: post #3

I found that test extremely stressful, although I was on track for 33 / 36 when I stopped. Intriguing! Other HN'ers -- did you find it stress-inducing? The first Turing test I've gotten nervous doing.

33, which surprised me as I'm extremely introverted. I got the sense that the expressions fell into different categories based on where the tension around the eyes was, and the matching word had been randomly chosen from the category. The "1000 yard stare" category, the "happy" category, and so on. By the end I was enjoying this new match-the-category puzzle.

I'm also extremely introverted, and I got a 34. Asperger's and introversion are very different.

A lot of people get Asperger's, introversion and shyness mixed, but they are three completely different things.

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

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Post by num1 »

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…

Seems to be correct so far, 32.

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

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Post by newobj »

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…

Got 30/36. Yay! I'm not a Cylon.

Didn't find it stressful. It was interesting though when I would get one wrong and absolutely could NOT see why it would be the emotion described...

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

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Post by lmkg »

amadiver wrote: post #7

I'm amazed the message their eyes sent was so clear and nuanced.

When humans see a face, we apparently focus on the eyes and the lips. Once, for a summer job, I worked with our school photographer retouching the scanned images of the incoming freshman class. For efficiency, we just blurred the images to obliterate any scanning errors, and then restored and hand-retouched only the eyes and lips. Subjectively, the difference between blurred and blurred-with-original-eyes-and-lips was astonishing, while the difference between original and BWOEAL was comparatively rather small. I would assume that human expression and human vision evolved in parallel, in a complimentary fashion.

This also explains why humans so easily find faces in inanimate objects, or in three-character sequences like :-) and ^_^. We're just highly tuned to recognize and parse very particular physical features.

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

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Post by techiferous »

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?

Weird bit of trivia: in photos of faces, the eyes carry most of the emotion, but in cartoon faces, the mouth does.

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

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Post by etherael »

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 was extremely surprised by this, I had at times almost gone so far as self diagnosing myself with aspergers due to my complete lack of interest in all things touchy feely and human, but hey; 35/36.
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