The test assesses five different areas. Autistic-like responses will show poor social skill, attention switching, communication and imagination, and an exaggerated attention to detail. Scores over 32 are generally taken to indicate Asperger's Syndrome or high-functioning autism, with more than 34 an "extreme" score. A "normal" score, based on control groups, is about 16 (or 15 for women and between 17 and 18 for men). A group of mathematics-contest winners scored an average of 24.5. A group of scientists scored an average of 18.5 (19 for men, 17 for women), with computer scientists at about 21, physicists at 19 and those in biology or medicine at about 15.
Well, exactly the area I'm in and enjoy!
Huh.
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The test assesses five different areas. Autistic-like responses will show poor social skill, attention switching, communication and imagination, and an exaggerated attention to detail. Scores over 32 are generally taken to indicate Asperger's Syndrome or high-functioning autism, with more than 34 an "extreme" score. A "normal" score, based on control groups, is about 16 (or 15 for women and between 17 and 18 for men). A group of mathematics-contest winners scored an average of 24.5. A group of scientists scored an average of 18.5 (19 for men, 17 for women), with computer scientists at about 21, physicists at 19 and those in biology or medicine at about 15.
So what does 27 mean, that I'm a very high functioning autistic, or a low functioning, non autistic?
Maybe a mid functioning normal?
Good thing they didn't include anything about spelling.
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I thought it was odd that they didn't include list-making as a relevant thing. I make lists of things almost compulsively.
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I scored a 24. About average for around here, I guess.
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i hate lists. hell, i just wing it when i go to the grocery store. which means, generally, that i don't have the correct ingredients to make anything that i want to make once i get home.
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Actually, this quiz is of particular interest to me because I'm in bioinformatics, a program that tries to combine CS and genetics with varying success.
The main reason for the program from a financial point of view, is that the industry is finding out that you simply can't teach biologists, computer science. Meanwhile (especially during the dot com boom) most CS students didn't want to undertake extra training after graduating with a degree when they could just go out and make loads of money.
Now notice this:
quote: A group of mathematics-contest winners scored an average of 24.5. A group of scientists scored an average of 18.5 (19 for men, 17 for women), with computer scientists at about 21, physicists at 19 and those in biology or medicine at about 15
CS at Waterloo is administered out of a faculty of Math. Thats right, one of the only universities in Canada with a faculty of math. So everyone in the faculty is a mathematics contest winner by default (24.5) and we're combining it with biology (15)...the two extreme scores.
This bears some thought.
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I got the impression biology was cited as hardly being an absolute extreme but rather an extreme within the "geeky" pursuits.
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I got a 29. This definatly does not bode well for me...
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