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02 Mar 2014, 4:00 pm

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People are stupid.
Can't you get fake teeth or dentures?
Also, if you have no criminal record, wouldn't this satisfy them that you are not a drug addict?


They are stupid, yes. I'll grant you that one. Heh.
I just managed to get fake teeth after 3 years trying. Now it's just being an overweight female and having a really spotty employment history that's working against me, from all the research I've done on hiring discrepancies in attempt to figure out why I can put 40 applications in and here nothing. Over and over and over again. Not only do I not have a criminal record, I haven't even ever gotten a ticket.



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02 Mar 2014, 4:08 pm

I am running out of ideas here but I still have a few more.
If you live in England, because I know we have one here but I do not know about other countries having one like America or Canada, do you have a place that unemployed people go to to get jobs?
I think it is called the job centre but I am not sure.
Can you not get a minimum wage job? I.E cleaning?
I would like this kind of job as it is repetitive, I would know what to expect and I would be making everything look nice.



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02 Mar 2014, 4:19 pm

LifUlfur wrote:
I am running out of ideas here but I still have a few more.
If you live in England, because I know we have one here but I do not know about other countries having one like America or Canada, do you have a place that unemployed people go to to get jobs?
I think it is called the job centre but I am not sure.
Can you not get a minimum wage job? I.E cleaning?
I would like this kind of job as it is repetitive, I would know what to expect and I would be making everything look nice.


America, sadly. I've heard of day labor places but the closest one is about 100 kilometers from here. The last job I had actually WAS cleaning. It was a janitor for the local YMCA building while it was closed at night. Which would've been much more awesome if the kids there didn't like smearing the walls of the bathrooms with feces. That was so unbelievably gross. Probably my favorite job I've had was as the night auditor and night shift front desk clerk for a hotel. All the accounts and computer updates and almost no one to speak of would check in that late. And the few people who came down to breakfast before my shift ended were usually really laid back older men who worked on a railroad repair crew who would talk about their grandchildren in the mornings, which turned into a nice sort of routine. The hotel wound up closing down though after they wouldn't pay up on the lawsuits they lost regarding things like people falling down flights of cement stairs and winding up seriously injured.



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02 Mar 2014, 4:20 pm

You could look in newspapers like they do in movies or F.R.I.E.N.D.S, they sometimes have job adverts in those.



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22 Mar 2014, 2:25 pm

:idea:

I have a new theory about the hunting questions. Questions like liking water, hanging upside down, throwing small objects and jumping over things really aren't stims (like factor analysis previously suggested). Also, the stims in the Aspie communication group have emotional connections, and cluster with communication differences.

In a new analysis, liking water now clusters with Aspie contact, which seems a lot more reasonable. Thus, I've started to test key hunting traits in this context instead.

It's the 7:th round, and still no new final version, but confirmative factor analysis results are improving and probably will soon exceed 0.95 for CFI/TLI, which is a typical cutoff. Current value is 0.937.



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31 Mar 2014, 7:37 pm

I really like this new version, but am I the only one who has difficulty understanding some of the questions? For example, I had to skip this question, because I just can't comprehend it. Maybe it's just me though.

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Do you feel an urge to show people you like your favorite places?


What is this asking?

No matter how good the test is and how good the questions are, it's not going to be as accurate as it should be, if the English is not as clear and concise as possible. I only say this because I really like this test and I'd like to see it be better.



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31 Mar 2014, 8:01 pm

Max000 wrote:

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Do you feel an urge to show people you like your favorite places?


What is this asking?


I think it means: Is it important to show your favorite places to people that you like?



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31 Mar 2014, 11:34 pm

starkid wrote:
Max000 wrote:

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Do you feel an urge to show people you like your favorite places?


What is this asking?


I think it means: Is it important to show your favorite places to people that you like?


Yes, thats what it says. But it just seems kind of ambiguous. I guess the next question would be what type of people and what type of places?

Here is another question that I have an issue with.

"Do you only enjoy hugs from people you are attached to?"

I think I know what it means, so I answered the question. But honestly I'm not 100% sure. Because the phrase "people you are attached to" is used in a lot of the questions. It would be easier for me to answer if I knew what relationship these "people I'm attached to" are to me.



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01 Apr 2014, 5:57 pm

Max000 wrote:

Yes, thats what it says. But it just seems kind of ambiguous. I guess the next question would be what type of people and what type of places?

If the question doesn't specify, it most likely refers to any people that you like and any places that you like.

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It would be easier for me to answer if I knew what relationship these "people I'm attached to" are to me.


"Attached" refers to any close relationship.



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01 Apr 2014, 10:28 pm

starkid wrote:
Max000 wrote:

Yes, thats what it says. But it just seems kind of ambiguous. I guess the next question would be what type of people and what type of places?

If the question doesn't specify, it most likely refers to any people that you like and any places that you like.

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It would be easier for me to answer if I knew what relationship these "people I'm attached to" are to me.


"Attached" refers to any close relationship.


Well, if thats the case, then I think the question should made that clear. "Do you like to receiving hugs only from people you have a close relationship to?" That would make it clear.

Personally I interpret "attached to" to mean only someone you are romantically involved with. Which would eliminate a lot of "close" relationships. Example: relatives, friends, etc.

It seems to me, that the questions need to be concise and clear to everyone.

Once again I love this test. I think it is brilliant. I just wish they would clean it up, and make the questions clearer.



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01 Apr 2014, 11:36 pm

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I'm in the process of improving the grouping process in Aspie Quiz. Previously, I couldn't find the groups with direct factor analysis, but a different method of doing factor analysis have changed this, so it is now possible to use direct factor analysis to get suggested factors, which is a much more objective method than previously used.

Because of this, a few groups in Aspie Quiz have been changed. The Aspie hunting group was merged with Aspie communication, the NT hunting group was merged with NT talents. The Aspie compulsion and talent groups were also merged, as were the NT compulsion and NT social groups. In addition to that, I've used many newly discovered social traits to form 3 distinct social groups on each side: Contact behaviors, general socialization behaviors and attachment behaviors. Some of these groups still lack enough traits.

There now is a new (experimental) version with 210 items, where 60 are experimental. Link: http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

Suggestions and feedback are welcome. The aim is to publish the new process of grouping in an autism-related journal.

According to this there are 210 items. However, the test that I just took, April 1, 2014, had only 150 questions. I use the link in the original post. Am I missing something?



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02 Apr 2014, 12:42 pm

I answered and got "You have answered inconsistently on too many control-questions "... Must be coz I chose "A little" quite a lot but it is the truth. On all those tests often my ideal response would be "Depends On The Situation" but this option doesn't exist, so I choose "A Little".