empathy and social anxiety

[Belinda]

Originally Posted by Mark09

20.
But you essentially answer that with your questions, your judgement of how good you in x and y situations.(eg it's not diagnosis, it's mostly your own self-verdict)

Yup, that's what I was trying to say.

[mossieman]

41 out of 80

[ZooWeeMama]

Clicking on the first test gives a test with only 60 questions, but gives a score out of 80. I scored a lot higher on this one than the second one down in google, which had 80 questions and scores you on systemizing as well.

[Indigo_]

I got 42

[Tom Morello]

I had a similarly low score of 23. (twice) But it's an online test with poor questions and a lack of detail. I took an online test earlier which made me sound like a geographical genius when actually I know fck all about the subject. It was just a few capital city questions lol. Take it with a pinch of salt.

[Bakedpotato]

Scored 30 - not really a fan of these kinds of tests as so many of the questions would depend on the precise circumstances, they were really very open in what they were asking. But maybe that score explains a lot who knows.

[Rummy]

A lot will depend on how well you know yourself, if you're prone to exaggerating your good or poor points, mood at the time and how much subconscious (or conscious) wishfull thinking you might use in the test.

Let's face it... One reason why some people don't have much empathy is because they think they do have empathy. eg If someone does not realise when he/she is offending another person - he/she would not realise he/she was bad at realising such an occurrence. If that makes sense? The opposite can also be true, with those scoring low because of reasonably good empathy. So how can self-judgement work in this test?

However, am not totally against internet test results. The reason am on this forum in the first place is because I took a similar SA test.

[firemonkey]

29. Quite a few questions had a very dubious link to empathy.

[Rummy]

Originally Posted by Beagle

Eh?

Empathy definition: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

So if someone thought himself good at understanding people, yet in truth he is not ... Then he would've given himself a high score because of being unaware of the truth.

ie In fact he is lacking in empathy despite giving himself a high score.

[Byrney]

39. I took a simple 15 question survey at my GP's surgery which apparently determined my state of depression and anxiety.