What Sex is Your Brain?

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I am 50 on the male side. A left-brain engineer-type. News to me! I was a miserable failure at remembering the position of objects, yet earned a perfect score in selecting the rotated shapes. Go figure. I go for feminine men, too, according to them. Hmm.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Zero exactly, totally gender neutral. Hm.

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Eunuch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

50 male.

every single section was boy and i have abnormally sized fingers.

― sunny successor (katarina), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Around 30 on the male side. Brain not capable of thinking up words today for some reason.

― jaq (jaq), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

About 25 on the female side, but I think that must be because of the length of my index finger. I scored male or close to it on all the engineer/spatial stuff. Oh, but I did very well on the eyes (when I wasn't thinking "isn't that Keanu Reeves?")

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

100% male.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently I have testicles for frontal lobes.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

One thing the test does not ask -- and I think this might be significant -- is whether you are left or right handed. I'm a lefty, and therefore most stuff skewed to right-brain for me, and also about 40 per cent male brain since I likey the girlie-men.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I am 50 male which was a bit of a surprise. However, I am DAMN empathetic and MY GOD do I know my rotating 3D shapes. I also fancy women who look like women.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't that covered by the handclasp/thumb on top question, Suzy?

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm 50 female. Yay reinforcing my Interpersonal Comm class.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't taken the test, but I find the reasoning sort of circular. Is our definition of a male or a female based on brain function or reproductive organs? If it's the latter, then calling certain brain traits "male" or "female" just perpetuates the falsehood that certain kinds of abilities or intelligences are male- or female-specific.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a guy and I got 50 Female.

― Colin Cassidy (Colin C.), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm definitely more arty.

― Colin Cassidy (Colin C.), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

30 female, probably because I got 10/10 on the faces (but only 5 for empathy on the quiz) and 50 words.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Does everyone get the same words? I had grey and happy.

50 male - dead center on everything but the rotating shapes (where I got 12/12).

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Tests of this sort that I've taken before have been based on statistics ie 80% of women do well on Section A whereas only 40% of men do well, so let's call it a "female" trait.

"Feminine" is more gender neutral, I think, but not by much.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

50 on the female side

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Never had sex with my brain. Just my face and genitals.

― Geza T iz tha Rainy G. Toronado (The GZeus), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Tests of this sort that I've taken before have been based on statistics ie 80% of women do well on Section A whereas only 40% of men do well, so let's call it a "female" trait.

Correlation vs. causation anyone? Seriously, shit like this is retarded science.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link

25 female.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"Asian students tended to score 5 points higher on our math test than white students, so people who are better at math can be said to have more "Asian" brains."

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck off mickey

― obi strip (sanskrit), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

grey and happy here, too.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Not Mickey, btw.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

"You said your right thumb is on top. This suggests the left side of your brain is dominant."

^ I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with brain dominance, I think it's considered an independent genetic trait (left on top is dominant, right on top is recessive)

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

BBC in junk science SCANDAL!

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Correlation is the new causation!

― Geza T iz tha Rainy G. Toronado (The GZeus), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

50% female but it seems to be entirely 100% due to the fact that I scored ridiculously well on the "which objects have moved" test.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a 0.

I scored ridiculously well on the "which objects have moved" test.

Got a 0 on that, too.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm hell at spatial relations, though.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe what pushed me into the middle was preferring masculine faces?

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG. This test means that I'm gay, doesn't it?

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh to hell with it.

*puts ass in air*

COME ON, BOYS. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:26 (seventeen years ago) link

*cocksuck*

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i am 50 percent girl, but with a strong preference for female faces. my brain is a lesbian. hot! (i shouldve been even more girly, probably, because i guessed the hell out of those rotating objects. but i guessed well enough to get a gender-neutral score.)

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link

50 male, but couldn't find a metric ruler anywhere so i settled for a tape measure in inches that i used google converter and my computer calculator to change into millimeters

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Statistics show that these tests are useful to...test makers and statisticians.

People born before 1970 are 20% more likely to have chose to try cocaine. Thus, they are more 'Cocaine-Brained.'
Statistics concocted by my anal sphincter.

Sorry, but being misdagnosed by various morons, quacks, and FUCKING MULTIPLE CHOICE TESTS until I was 17 has left me a bit bitter.

THe MMPI. A mupltiple choice test whose results are then wholly interepereted by the tester.
STUPID.

You have ADD.
ADHD.
Depression.
Glucose sensetivity(or somesuch bullshit).
It's the artificial colors and flavors.
Take these vitamins until you wish you could puke.
Schizophrenia.
Then I turned 14 and "Non-Verbal Learning Disability" appeared. BLEH. Useless diagnosis. Grey as hell.
"Asperger's syndrome." Useful, but not as useful as "Mild autism."

All throughout this I was given every pill under the sun they could give me.

― Geza T iz tha Rainy G. Toronado (The GZeus), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Sounds like you went to too many doctors.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link

People with non-specific psychological symptoms who go to ten different doctors are 1000% more likely to be diagnosed with 10 different things.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link

(But I'm off topic. "What's Wrong With Your Brain" is a whole diff thread.)

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link

The "women use 15,000 words in a day, men only 7000" statistic at the end is TOTAL RUBBISH.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link

A: The real phraseology of that should have been that a woman has many more communication events a day — gestures, words, raising of your eyebrows.

Hahahahah

Why does the word "phraseology" remind me of The Music Man?

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

50% female but it seems to be entirely 100% due to the fact that I scored ridiculously well on the "which objects have moved" test.

Stop talking so much and find me my keys, amirite?

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

(But I'm off topic. "What's Wrong With Your Brain" is a whole diff thread.)

please to start such thread

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I scored above average (male or female) on every test that had a score except the bit where you rated yourself on empathising. This resulted in me being diagnosed as 50% male. (though there was that part where I uniformly rejected ladies who had been run through the photoshop "man face" effect).

There's a weird byproduct of sexism here, we seem to have developed quite a lot of tests to determine how good you are at being a manly man (able to rotate 3d objects IN UR HED - 12 out of 12!) but only one or two that rate how good you are at things women are good at (look at these floating eyes with no face - what do they say to you? - 7 out of 10)

― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I am an excellent candidate for warrior poet.

― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

O as well.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe that's cause it's harder to devise computer tasks to measure all those fuzzy womanly things like language and empathy. I'm v sceptical of the questionnaire tasks where you rate your own empathy by errr answering questions on how empathetic you are. Not much opportunity for self-delusion there, oh no.

I'd like to have been able to see the full faces after doing that floating eyes task.

xxpost

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Not only self-delusion, but second-guessing the quiz. It's not exacty hard to figure out that if the question is "I like to weepily listen to the problems of my fluffy bunny friends" and you check "gosh yes!" they're going to rate you more feminine.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

And then we have tea and a good goss! I just love that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, apparently I am Australian. Or would that be "gossie"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I find the insinuation that women are disinterested in politics (because we don't like complicated things! Let's go to the mall!) quite offensive. Not to mention oppressive - hey little lady, don't bother to get involved in government! It's a systematic, complicated process that you, with your female brain, couldn't possibly understand or be interested in.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Say, that's a pretty reasonable, male point.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

ALSO - after you type in words that mean the same as the word they give you, it says, "Did you know that, on average, women use 15,000 words a day while men use 7,000?" This claim has been widely debunked. That's pretty weak research, or just blind adherence to stereotypes over actual science.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Math is hard.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Now let's forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream!

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i found it difficult to not to deliberately score poorly on the female brain tests in ph34r of the results saying LOLLOLOLOL U R FAG

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe the BBC's test IS the actual science and it's all a stunt to test some third hypothesis, like how many internet people spend five minutes trying to track down a fucking ruler just to get some lame result re: "brain sex"

― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally made up my finger measurements. I'm not going to get a fucking ruler.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

also: that thing with the finger lengths has nothing to do with one's brain, has it?

lololol xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

COULD NOT FIND METRIC RULER IN WHOLE HOUSEHOLD. Gave up at that point.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I made it up, why would anyone actually go find a ruler? If you can guess the difference then you don't need the exact measurement.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

COULD NOT FIND METRIC RULER IN WHOLE HOUSEHOLD. Gave up at that point.
-- Laurel (sininspac...), January 2nd, 2007.
I made it up, why would anyone actually go find a ruler? If you can guess the difference then you don't need the exact measurement.

-- Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (garance8...), January 2nd, 2007.

women...

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The finger-length thing is supposed to come from testosterone exposure in the womb, which in turn predicts your ability to read maps, obv.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes but it isn't looking for actual hard length, just which finger is longer and by about how much. So, ruler is unimportant, they could've just asked you "Which is longer, ring or index?" and garnered a similar answer.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

cause they said every millimeter counts and i didn't want to upset the internet web page quiz with fradulent data

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

The leaps and bounds of logic in this whole thing never cease

left thumb on top ---> left hand is DOMINANT ----> right BRAIN is dominant

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I have had difficulty finding a girl that I can talk politics with.
And then fuck.

srsly tho - I don't know why but I do find way more guys are into the politics than girls.

giganto xpost!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe you're just uncomfortable having an intellectual conversation with a girl.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

ladies and gentlemen, Bill Maher.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, obv

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i do not know what that is supposed to mean.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Absolute zero!

Though on the finger thing I got a ratio of 1.05, and I prefer feminine faces. I judged the faces by their eyebrows.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

who on earth owns a ruler past primary school? fuck that

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I have one at my desk.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

And if you have £50 to split two ways, you get £25 each, any other answer is just wrong.

I have a tape measure (I was measuring furniture earlier)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a quilting/sewing ruler but it's Imperial-only!! Stupid Britishes and their metric system.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I have about 20 of them at work.

My middle finger is about 18 1/2 picas long.

xpost And if you have £50 to split two ways, you get £25 each, any other answer is just wrong.

I KNOW! WOMEN ROUTINELY SCREW THEMSELVES OUT OF MONEY? IS THAT THE IMPLICATION HERE?

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, those eyes all said nothing to me.

We invented Imperial + all our rulers have both measures!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly tho - I don't know why but I do find way more guys are into the politics than girls.

Because women have traditionally been excluded from the political arena and are often told from birth that they should be more interested in other things like empathy and keeping house because of their brain structure, thus reducing the number of women actually interested/involved in politics.

xpost - I don't get the logic of not splitting the money down the middle, either. Any other answer just seems stupid. Who wouldn't agree to an even split? Other than Germans, apparently. Also, the only ruler in our house is a point ruler for font stuff.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

XP to Jel: (I know! And most of our rulers have both systems, too, but my quilting one is made for lining up geometric parts so has to have straight lines all the way across = no combining systems.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

That £50/£25 thing was bizarre! I was all "£50 between us? That'll be £25 each, ho hum la-dee-da easy money... WHAT?!?! Oh I'm sorry I missed out on an opportunity to be a greedy selfish bastard!"

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

This is why women still make less money than men. They just don't want it as much.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Who the fuck is telling little girls this?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a shit question really. it didn't say whether this other person is your friend/someone you know either, or in what setting this is done. (or did it? i didn't pay enough attention!) is it like some kind of DEAL OR NO DEAL gameshow situation??

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Their fathers.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That said, I don't know any women who, when I start talking about politics, are like, "That's very nice. I think I'll go do the dishes!"

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I hate deal-in-a-vacuum questions like that. It reminds me of the one where they give you the chance to risk, say, $5,000 on a coin-toss, and if you win you get $12,000. Sure the reward outweighs the risk, but maybe someone just can't afford to risk losing $5,000. Course, if I could do it ten times I'd take the bet in a second. (xpost)

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Who the fuck is telling little girls this?

Well, the BBC's "What sex is your brain" quiz, for one.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Ended up a little more male than female. Not too much, though -- just enough. Longer ring fingers (just barely), decent spatial mapping, preference for female faces apparently counterbalanced by a surprisingly strong ability to read eyes. Okay.

― adam beales (pye poudre), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - But you said yourself, "I don't know why but I do find way more guys are into the politics than girls." So that means either brain chemistry or societal conditioning, and unless you buy the brain chemistry argument, which is akin to saying that women are biologically unable to participate effectively in politics, that means somebody or something has to be sending a message to women that politics is not for them.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's where I stand on things like male/female differences:
Men and women, on average, have different aptitudes and weaknesses as well ans certain personality traits that are applicable to that gender.(proofread my grammar, please. I no think god when no smoke)
However, these are merely averages and aptitudes.

Thus, these tests are worth two 3" hills of fuckbeans.

― Geza T iz tha Rainy G. Toronado (The GZeus), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i got a very-slightly-more-female score (then mistakenly closed the tab, so I've forgotten what it was), but it seemed to be solely because I could think of lots of words, since I got 'male' scores on pretty much all else, incl the testosterone-addled ring finger. Though apparently I have right-brain dominance, whoop-de-doo.

The results page was wierd, it made these generalisations about 'the male brain' and 'the female brain' but the difference between male and female average scores that it gave was miniscule - on the judging-emotions-by-eyes thing, the average score for men and women was the same, so why would you believe that women were 'generally' better at it than men?

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I scored 25 female. And I got 11 out of 12 in the 3d objects thing. Also, the average for one of the tests was the same for both male and female, but in the end blurb they still stated that scoring one way or the other was more feminine. Huh?

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, xpost with cis. Yes, what the hell was that about?

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

SEX BRAIN QUIZ

1. YOU HAVE A PENIS

a. yes
b. no

2. YOU HAVE A VAGINA

a. no
b. yes

MORE FEMALE BRAINS RESPOND TO BOTH QUESTIONS WITH b. MALE BRAINS GENERALLY RESPOND TO BOTH QUESTIONS WITH a.

― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

My metric/inch ruler is hanging from a nail, a SPECIAL NAIL JUST FOR MY RULER. But I could only click on one object in the "what object has been moved" thing. When you have a bad brain you need a special nail for everything!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

haha I think I didn't even try to remember where objects were to begin with

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

25 on the male side.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Eyes

This task tested your ability to judge people's emotions.
Your score: 7 out of 10
Average score
for men: 6.6 out of 10
Average score for
women: 6.6 out of 10

What does your result suggest?
If you scored
0 - 3: Do you think you're good at judging how another person is
feeling? Your score suggests this doesn't come to you quite so
naturally.
If you scored 4 - 6: Your result suggests you have a balanced
female-male brain and find it neither easy nor difficult to judge
people's emotions.
If you scored 7 - 10: Your result suggests you are a good
empathiser, sensitive to other people's emotions. Women generally
fall into this category.
Professor Baron-Cohen at the University of Cambridge says that
people usually perform better than they expect to on this test.

Men often think a person's eyes are sending signals of desire
when that's not the case at all.

New character?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Simon Baron-Cohen: Sasha's uncle, as well as being ruling monarch of "women be shopping" pop-science.

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

which is akin to saying that women are biologically unable to participate effectively in politics

I don't think that's what it would imply at all. More like less interested than less capable would be my take on it.
Not that I think that's necessarily the case anyhow.

xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

do britishers ever, y'know, do real science? Cuz judging from the majority of bbc/Guardian links posted here they spend most of their time conducting studies/polls about coffee-table subjects ("Study reveals men are grumpier!" etc)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"Science reveals men, women different!"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The eyes just looked like stock from a $5 photo CD - who decided which emotion they were feeling?

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to self: ah, no, I was wrong - second cousin.

about the politics thing, I think it's more based in a belief that women tend not to be able to conceptualise large, complex systems, like the inside of a car engine or the political system, while being very good at sensing out more fluctuating and vague systems such a people's networks of shifting friendships; not quite to say 'ah the ladies, their little fluffy brains will be overtaxed by difficult topics like the government of human society'.

britishes love the pseudoscience, it's true! at least we have ben goldacre to tell us off for it.

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

who decided which emotion they were feeling?

And why was there no "fuck me" option for that one chick?

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Big zero for me. And what does it mean if you score well above average for EITHER sex? That you're not an idiot, considering what national test averages tend to be?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

What's annoying is that, taken individually, my scores on mechanical/spatial tests are VERY masculine, and my scores on emotive/empathetic tests were VERY feminine, so that "0" really ought to have been two opposite extreme ones. In conclusion, this test is dumb!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a very male reaction!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel's on to something there. I came out as gender neutral but my scores were 'masculine' for the 'masculine' questions and 'feminine' for the 'feminine' ones.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

And why was there no "fuck me" option for that one chick?

-- look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (fluxion2...), January 2nd, 2007.

Or like, all of them???

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

My results told me to give up and become a host on SQUARE ONE: THE NEW MILLENIUM SERIES.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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