Empathy test.

• Cannibal wrote on 2012-04-20 05:39
  ...I got an 8...
• Cynic wrote on 2012-04-20 05:40
  That's what confuses me about this Quiz. Most of the questions seem to imply an understanding of human emotion-- i.e. being able to read people and what they are feeling. And they claim that understanding them makes you more empathetic.
  
  Answering negatively to all the questions about understanding/reading emotions in others gives you a lower result whereas answering positively gives you a higher result.
  
  I can personally say that I do have the ability to sympathize with certain people to an extent, hence borderline sociopath, but it's never been anywhere near the 'normal' level I've seen others show. And yet I did not score as low as I probably should have in terms of relating/sympathizing to actual humans.
  
  Or perhaps the border is just a lot thinner than I imagined.
• TA wrote on 2012-04-20 05:46
  Again: Understanding has nothing to do with caring.
  
  http://robin.hubpages.com/hub/Sympathy_vs_Empathy
• Cynic wrote on 2012-04-20 05:50
  Welp, I can't really call it that accurate then.
  
  Pity.
• Kaon wrote on 2012-04-20 06:09
  The scores seem about right to me tho o3o;;
• Nintega wrote on 2012-04-20 06:10
  I got a 28. Not surprised, but that doesn't make seeing it much better. Even if it isn't really about empathy and it's just understanding human emotions or sympathy or whatever's been discussed.
  
  Feel like crap harder, woo.
• Chockeh wrote on 2012-04-20 06:13
  I got 26. I call bullshit, I like people. D:
• Pierce wrote on 2012-04-20 06:33
  Average. 52.
• Aiyas wrote on 2012-04-20 06:34
  30.
  
  lol
• Ri wrote on 2012-04-20 06:36
  got a 16 o3o yay me
• Taycat wrote on 2012-04-20 08:19
  32.
  
  My friend got a 20.
  
  Then again, he's autistic...
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-04-20 10:33
  62
  
  But I wouldn't call that empathy. I only have fake empathy.
• Claudia wrote on 2012-04-20 13:18
  61, sounds more or less correct.
  
  I probably lost a few points for some of the social situations; I said 'strongly disagree' to the 'you like being the center of attention', 'cause uh nope.
• Episkey wrote on 2012-04-20 13:37
  53.
  
  Just the cut off for above average.
  I guess it's because I didn't answer so strongly at some points. But, I answered truthfully and that's all that matters.
  
  Also, I've always known empathy as the ability to fully understand and relate to what a person is going through.
  
  Whereas sympathy is just the nice "Oh I'm so sorry, I wish I knew how you really feel."
  
  
  EDIT:
  
  The main website states "Don't take these tests too seriously - Baron-Cohen himself says in his book that the 'typical' results are only averages, and many men and women differ in their scores."
  
  So, don't worry TA - I still think there's hope for you. :wink:
  
  EDIT 2:
  
  Here's a graph marking the data received from the Empathy Quotient Test.
  
  

  [Image: http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/Results/eqPanel.jpg]
• Rin wrote on 2012-04-20 15:18
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  Some of these questions really are too broad.
  
  The test feels kind of off in general.
  
  

  Quote from Male vs. Female Brains:

  Simon Baron-Cohen's recent book The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain proposes that "The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems."