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Danielismyname
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 Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: Empathy Quotient |
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Ok, I felt like taking this again, as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Blade Runner were recently in my mind: last time I took this, I scored 2 out of 80.
I scored a flat zero this time.
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zen_mistress
In Pursuit of a Peaceful Life
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Mine is 35/80, but I did a volunteer counselling course and read Dale Carnegie and made a huge effort to be amongst NTs, imitating them... before I did the counselling course I would have probably got about 20 I estimate.
The counselling course, and living with strange NTs... made me feel like I had been in a blender, or a stingray tank. But I think it has taught me a lot about the average folk, it is getting easier to talk to them now....
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sgrannel
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:54 am Post subject: |
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3. About as bad as Chucky? Or perhaps Bender from Futurama? Aw, screw it.
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ryry85
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Your score: 3
0 - 32 = low (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20)
33 - 52 = average (most women score about 47 and most men score about 42)
53 - 63 is above average
64 - 80 is very high
80 is maximum |
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happypuff
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| Your score: 14 |
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Ishmael
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Empathy serves little logical purpose save as a tool to identify with other members of the same pack.
A primitive throwback - no longer necessary in the modern world, but handled much as a psychological security blanket.
Purposeless things make me irate.
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deep-techno
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:52 am Post subject: |
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I fetched a higher than average score for most people with AS/autism: 32.
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Raptor
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:56 am Post subject: |
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I scored 14 but I thought I'd score a little higher than that. Oh well.  |
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patternist
Stirring the pot....
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Meh, 20. But that's only because the people that wrote the test suck  |
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Sora
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:33 am Post subject: |
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I scored 39.
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poopylungstuffing
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:00 am Post subject: |
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Mine is 57/80.
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ryry85
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| Ishmael wrote: | Empathy serves little logical purpose save as a tool to identify with other members of the same pack.
A primitive throwback - no longer necessary in the modern world, but handled much as a psychological security blanket.
Purposeless things make me irate. |
thats simply not true, it is as necessary now as it ever was as we all still need to work togetherfor our own betterment and for the continuation of the species, etc
your comment shows your frustration with your low emotional quotient |
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Ishmael
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | thats simply not true, it is as necessary now as it ever was as we all still need to work togetherfor our own betterment and for the continuation of the species, etc
your comment shows your frustration with your low emotional quotient |
How am I frustrated if I view it as an unnecessary throwback?
Empathy is the psychological equivalent of the appendix. I don't run in a pack; I don't socialise.
I have no empathy - but if I did, what use would it bring me?
Don't argue that it woud allow me to be happy by interacting with others, and living a normal life.
If I state that sort of nonsense, that kind of a waste of time has no meaning to me, then the tools to engage in such behaviour are simply dead weight - even if they have no physical presence.
I can actually score high, if I choose. It's easy to emulate behaviour if you've studied it long enough. They've a word for it - it's called "acting".
But if you can tell me what you can possibly gain of any merit, please, I'd welcome it. As I've said, though - if I have no use for the end result, than what merit does the tool bring?
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RustyShackleford
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| Raptor wrote: | | I scored 14 but I thought I'd score a little higher than that. Oh well. |
Me too |
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