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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html Via Public Address
emphasis mine
34. Yow.
If I took it as of a few years ago, before
a) developing various compensatory social skills and
b) lapsing into relying on technology to remember phone numbers and birth dates and the like
or if I weighted my thinking on the questions about social situations
- away from the groups with whom I spend the most time and have acquired a certain amount of social status
- towards situations involving people I've never met before or associate with infrequently
... it would be higher.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html Via Public Address
Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives.
emphasis mine
34. Yow.
If I took it as of a few years ago, before
a) developing various compensatory social skills and
b) lapsing into relying on technology to remember phone numbers and birth dates and the like
or if I weighted my thinking on the questions about social situations
- away from the groups with whom I spend the most time and have acquired a certain amount of social status
- towards situations involving people I've never met before or associate with infrequently
... it would be higher.
