The Empathy Quotient (EQ)

[Sonrisa]

I got 49 in the gender thing, but I though the choices were poor and many didn't reflect what I actually think.

yeah, it was pretty silly

[Looq]

Most of my answers were "slightly agree" "slightly disagree" Barely had any "strongly" either way...

Is that supposed to mean I'm an uncaring, insensitive bitch? LOL I guess it's confirmed. Wait it means I'm autisitc? WTF.

I got my girlfriend's somewhat aspergic son to take it and he got an EQ of 28 and an SQ of 42. Which seems pretty accurate.

I'm not suggesting you autistic or aspergic, just an anomaly. =P

[girl68]

The Systemizing Quotient (SQ) (Results)
Your Systemizing Quotient is 9.

What your score means

On average, most women score about 24 and most men about 30.

You have a lower than average ability for analysing and exploring a system.

What type of brain you have?

Do the EQ Test (Empathy Quotient) to find out what the two tests together tell you about your male or female brain.


Damnit these tests aren't making me look too good! To me I just don't care often about the details of the problem or the details of a solution. Does that mean I can't? I like to think not.

[girl68]

I do watch a lot of "how it's made" and the construction show... where they build huge bridges and shit like that.

Come on that counts!

[Sonrisa]

The Systemizing Quotient (SQ) (Results)
Your Systemizing Quotient is 9.

What your score means

On average, most women score about 24 and most men about 30.

You have a lower than average ability for analysing and exploring a system.

What type of brain you have?

Do the EQ Test (Empathy Quotient) to find out what the two tests together tell you about your male or female brain.


Damnit these tests aren't making me look too good! To me I just don't care often about the details of the problem or the details of a solution. Does that mean I can't? I like to think not.

but you're still in the grey zone which means that you're balanced

[girl68]

And what do you mean by balanced?

[Spring Haze]

Your Empathy Quotient is 31.

What your score means

You have a lower than average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately.

[doppelgaenger]

Your Empathy Quotient is 59.

What your score means

On average, most women score about 47 and most men about 42. Most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20.

You have an above average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately. You know how to treat people with care and sensitivity.

[Looq]

And what do you mean by balanced?

It means your emphathy and systemizing scores are more or less equal. You're not overly empathic nor are you overly systemic, you are balanced (or Type-B, a good type to be). Although, while you're scores indicate that while you are balanced you are not particularly empathic or systemic (below the norm).

Now I've read up on it, only an extreme male brain (Type S) would be indicative of autism or asperger's syndrome.

[Sonrisa]

Your Empathy Quotient is 59.

What your score means

On average, most women score about 47 and most men about 42. Most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20.

You have an above average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately. You know how to treat people with care and sensitivity.

lies! lies i tell ya!

[Sonrisa]

Your Empathy Quotient is 31.

What your score means

You have a lower than average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately.

if you are a female than you got us all beat, and males as well

[Queezy1993]

Your Empathy Quotient is 62.

What your score means

On average, most women score about 47 and most men about 42. Most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20.

You have an above average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately. You know how to treat people with care and sensitivity.

I am way too sensitive being a male.

[doppelgaenger]

Your Systemizing Quotient is 60.

What your score means

On average, most women score about 24 and most men about 30.

You have a very high ability for analysing and exploring a system. Three times as many people with Asperger Syndrome score in this range, compared to typical men, and almost no women score this high.

What type of brain do you have?
According to Baron-Cohen's theory, a person (whether male or female) has a particular 'brain type'. There are three common brain types: the female brain, the male brain and the balanced brain.

You can see where you fit by plotting your SQ score on the horizontal axis and your EQ score on the vertical axis on the graph below.

For some individuals, empathising is stronger than systemising. This is called the female brain, or a brain of type E.

For other individuals, systemising is stronger than empathising. This is called the male brain, or a brain of type S.

Yet other individuals are equally strong in their systemising and empathising. This is called the 'balanced brain', or a brain of type B.

The balanced brain would fit on the diagonal in the top right of the graph - this is where both EQ and SQ are equally strong.

The extreme female brain (which would be at the top left of the graph) has yet to be discovered according to Baron-Cohen. The extreme male brain (bottom right of the graph) may be a manifestation of autism.

A key feature of the theory is that your sex cannot tell you which type of brain you have. Not all men have the male brain, and not all women have the female brain. The central claim of this new theory is only that on average, more males than females have a brain of type S, and more females than males have a brain of type E.

[Take2]

I got an EQ of 58 and an SQ of 40, which it says means that I am balanced.

I got a 32 on the gender thing, but I can't take any meaning from that because the test was fundamentally flawed as a test. The answer options were not close to comprehensive and the tester's bias was strong and applied random and unsound interpretations to the reasons for respondant's answers.

[doppelgaenger]

Heh, I guess that means I have a balanced brain or something.