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21st November 2016, 12:34
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Empathy quotient
Your Empathy Quotient score was 27 out of a possible 80.
Scores of 30 or less indicate a lack of empathy common in people with Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome. https://psychology-tools.com/empathy-quotient/ I guess we'd get a wide variety of scores here. 
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#2
21st November 2016, 14:32
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Re: Empathy quotient
Have heard it said it's linked to a capacity to feel. I can certainly feel to the degree that I'm more than a little thin skinned , and can be quite emotionally reactive. Therefore I have a capacity to feel. Where I struggle is putting myself in other people's shoes .
If someone has had bad news I'll show concern, though I'll struggle to know what to do on a practical level. However in a debate situation I'll struggle to take on board the other person's point of view. It's very much a case of "I know you think that way but why would you?"
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#8
21st November 2016, 19:05
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Re: Empathy quotient
34/80
 I anticipated higher as people tell me I am empathetic 
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#10
21st November 2016, 22:00
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Re: Empathy quotient
Your Empathy Quotient score was 30 out of a possible 80.
Scores of 30 or less indicate a lack of empathy common in people with Autism or Asperger***8217;s Syndrome. Mmmmmm Assburgers *drools*
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#11
21st November 2016, 22:22
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Re: Empathy quotient
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Yay! And I don't care what any of you think about that 
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#12
21st November 2016, 23:15
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Re: Empathy quotient
42
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#14
22nd November 2016, 00:21
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Re: Empathy quotient
72/80.
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#15
22nd November 2016, 01:40
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Re: Empathy quotient
Scored 36.
It could be organised into different areas. What about specific situations? What about social experiences relevant to the questions? It's a bit unfair to say that if one scores below a certain number on something that looks at many areas, they're autistic, this tool is not immune to criticism or debate. On the question about feelings before facts, I agreed with facts. On the question about picking-up on whether someone's feeling awkward I put strongly agree. I know what it's like to not be properly introduced. The main flaw of the test is it doesn't take into account experiences and self-awareness, that some situations you might not have experienced to a good enough degree to make an informed decision. For those of you who scored low. This is not meant as a comparison, but something born out of curiosity. Perhaps it might be better to talk about specific situations in the survey which you think you do well in and not so well in.
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#17
22nd November 2016, 03:52
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Re: Empathy quotient
71/80
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#18
22nd November 2016, 06:17
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Re: Empathy quotient
21... I'm not convinced. I think I have empathy. Perhaps too much sometimes, it overwhelms me. I can't watch some comedy for feeling too much embarrassment for the characters, for example. I just don't know how to deal with it. But I don't fit the profile of some cold psychopath.
I know there must be something wrong with me or I wouldn't be in the situation I am in, lonely and unwanted. Maybe I am unable to know.
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#20
22nd November 2016, 10:53
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Re: Empathy quotient
42.
I have a sneaking suspicion that most people here will be more empathetic than their score on this suggests. A number of the questions are designed to elicit a measure of a person's ability to read socio-emotional cues (something those with Asperger's struggle with, among other things), but this being self-report, they really measure a person's own perception of their ability to read these cues. People with social anxiety tend to underrate their social competency and the skills they have that underlie it, so it might be expected that when asked how good they are at reading these kinds of cues, they'd rate themselves poorly.
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#21
22nd November 2016, 13:20
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Re: Empathy quotient
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#24
22nd November 2016, 21:32
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Re: Empathy quotient
70/80
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#25
22nd November 2016, 21:56
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#26
22nd November 2016, 23:34
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Re: Empathy quotient
36/80. I thought I'd have managed better than that. Can empathy be learned?
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#27
23rd November 2016, 02:20
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Looking back to when I was younger I can say that I wasn't that empathic at all. I was so wrapped up in my own anxieties, thoughts and feelings and they all clouded my ability to see things from the perspective of other people. Now I'm far less bogged down in my own stuff and can sort of stand back more and observe more accurately. I can see how things impact on people a lot easier now and read their feelings so much better. Empathy is not that complicated really. It's simply being willing to feel WITH a person rather than feeling FOR them. Feeling with them is recognising and acknowledging how another person feels, sees and understands their word as perceived by them. Feeling for them is sympathy rather than empathy. We can empathise with a person without having to agree with them. We can see and perceive life totally differently to them yet empathise with them by simply being willing to see their world through their eyes. I think what can sometimes get in the way of empathy is the fact that as human beings we tend to challenge others when they see things differently to how we see things, rather than just accepting that we all see things in our own way. This is where our own judgementalism gets in the way of empathic understanding. Another thing which can get in the way is when we are not so good at recognising the cues people give out. If we miss those signals or don't recognise them at all it can be difficult to be empathic at the times when the person might benefit from another human being empathising with them. For instance, I've been deeply depressed and highly anxious many times in my past and I thought it was obvious. Thing is though, people around me simply did not recognise the signals I was giving out. So, good people who may well have been very empathic towards me had they known my situation were not empathic at all simply because they didn't recognise and pick up on the signals. I wouldn't be too concerned over a score on this test. You could very well have the capacity to put yourself in someone else's shoes and see their life through their eyes if you were conversing with them, but in order to do so we need to be pretty sharp when it comes to recognising the signals in the first place. I suppose that comes a lot easier when we are more at peace with ourselves. This gives us the room to stand back a bit and observe others more accurately. Empathy is one of the crucial core conditions of counselling. Counsellors have to be willing to get into the world of the client and see that world from their viewpoint. So we have to be willing to get into the client's frame of reference rather than stay in our own. With empathy generally, that's all we are doing; being willing to see another person's life/world through their eyes. When people are willing to do this they get to understand their fellow human beings and the issues they face an awful lot better. I think we can all learn this if we want to. EDIT: Just want to add that I don't really care too much for these kinds of test. Although I do tent to score highly (these days at least) on empathy / empath tests I find that it's what you actually do in real life that matters when it comes to empathy. We can all tick boxes on a computer screen, but the true test is how we actually conduct our daily lives.
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#28
11th December 2016, 05:08
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Re: Empathy quotient
44/80 - Huh I thought I'd get higher than that honestly.
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#30
11th December 2016, 12:50
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Re: Empathy quotient
68
I think the test isn't great because it's based on how you THINK you do in those situations rather than how you actually are.
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