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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 newobj »

PixelRobot wrote: post #44
shib71 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The people I know with Asperger's are anything BUT introverted or shy. They overshare. They overtalk. They're oblivious to social norms. Shyness and introversion, if anything, to me, seem like an oversensitivity to social norms.

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Post by mickdarling »

30 with several of the wrong answers being my 50/50 choices with the actual correct answer. Nearly all of the ones I got correct, I was instantly certain.

One, I think "ashamed", looked just like the expression on a character in a TV show, SGU colonel young, and I realized he nails the mood perfectly.

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

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Post by spazz »

Ah 26, always a bit disappointing when you get the average score. One issue for me was that since english is not my native language I had to look up quite a few of the words describing different emotions.

Even so I was actually a bit amazed by my own ability to read the different emotions quite quickly since I'm worthless at reading people in real life.

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

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Post by rprospero »

m-photonic wrote: post #28

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…

I'm also a little curious about the gender data from a different perspective. I don't know whether the eyes were randomized, but, when I took the test, all of the "romantic" emotions (e.g. flirtatious) in the test were displayed with female eyes. If that's the same way for everyone, I can't help but think that that would skew the results.

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

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Post by misterbwong »

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…

Interesting hypothesis. I'm a 31. I wonder what the range of "normal" is.

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

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Post by dahjelle »

Does anyone else feel like the questions were strangely distributed? I'm not exactly sure why. I guess I would have expected many more suspicious or confused faces, and I don't think I found very many. (Ended up with a 27.) I also saw the word "puzzled" as a potential answer, but I don't remember choosing it as an option. For that matter, puzzled seems like an emotion in which one would rarely see the subject's eyes.

Or is this perhaps a part of the test, in which is is intentionally testing a subset of possible emotions rather than a wide gamut?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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

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Post by PixelRobot »

newobj wrote: post #51
PixelRobot wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The people I know with Asperger's are anything BUT introverted or shy. They overshare. They overtalk. They're oblivious to social norms. Shyness and introversion, if anything, to me, seem like an oversensitivity to social norms.

Well, you're more likely to know the sociable people with Asperger's than the antisocial ones, right? What you describe is not the case with all the people who have Asperger's. Some avoid social interaction because they know they don't understand the norms and prefer to avoid potential conflicts. You can't make a generalization there.

Shyness is all about anxiety about social interaction. Oversensitivity to social norms can cause it, yes, but also bad experiences or low self-esteem.

Introversion/Extroversion is about where you focus your mind. Introverted people are more focused on their own thoughts and mental processes, and extroverted people are more focused on interacting with the mental processes of other people. If something, introversion would imply caring less about social interaction and social norms, not oversensitivity. That doesn't mean introverted people don't care or follow social norms, or that they're not sociable. They just need more time with their own thoughts and feel less stimulated by petty social interaction like small talk. That doesn't mean introverted people are not sociable. Some introverts are very sociable and good at conversations, because they try to make their conversations interesting and stimulating. Some other are not interested in being sociable at all.

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

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Post by gphil »

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 agree. This felt like a test of whether or not one is conditioned to recognize how actors use their eyes to express certain emotions rather than a test of how well one can empathize with the feelings of others in the real world.
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