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17 Jun 2011, 10:20 am

KoS wrote:
"You have a random number generator, while choosing the number the moving parts of the machine spin, but stop once the machine has chosen a number. If you want to, you can choose to stop the random number generator spinning early manually, but the number resulting from an early stoppage would still be random. Now say you are wanting the generator to produce a specific number, do you stop is spinning or do you let it run it's course?"


I would have asked him a bunch of questions about how the machine actually worked before I could accept that the numbers were actually random. Mechanical processes are often deterministic and stopping the wheels early could very likely cluster the results within a subset of the possibilities. This could increase the likelihood of the desired result of it was in that subset, otherwise stopping early could actually decrease the likelihood.

After all this, he would conclude that I am indeed aspie, even though I never actually answered the question.


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17 Jun 2011, 10:39 am

Regarding the questions:

1) What do you find most interesting
(start a stop watch. If the time exceeds 600 seconds and the subject is still explaining their interest, they have Asperger's)

2) Does this noise bother you?
(put the noise machine on the table. Set all the dials to zero. Turn it on. If the subject says yes while the machine is warming up, they have Asperger's)

3) You look sad. Can I hug you?
(If the subject continues to expound upon question number 1, but at a markedly faster pace, they have Asperger's)

4) What time is it?
(If the subject asks 'relativistic or psychological time?' or refuses to answer on the grounds that you have a watch and already know the time, they have Asperger's


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17 Jun 2011, 10:45 am

I guess everyone is different, but I'd show the person a photograph with a few things wrong in the scenery; such as maybe a livingroom with a lamp, which has the shadow cast in the wrong direction, and also a woman with pink eyes, or something very unusual about the face. I bet the Aspie will spot the lamp shadow being wrong, before he/she spots the anomaly in the person.

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17 Jun 2011, 10:47 am

1) Do you meet the diagnositic criteria for Asperger Disorder in the DSM-IV-TR?
2) Do you meet the diagnositic criteria for Asperger Syndrome in the ICD-10?
3) Do you meet the Gilbert's diagnostic criteria for Asperger's Disorder?
4) Do you meet the diagnostic criteria for Autistic Disorder in the DSM-IV-TR?

Yes, yes, yes, no = Aspie*.

*Depending on who diagnoses you, the results may vary.

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17 Jun 2011, 11:53 am

You have to repeat a year in ninth grade. You can take one of the following and only one. Which do you choose:
a) A cheat sheet with answers to every quiz and test.
b) Home phone numbers of everyone at your school.
c) A fake ID.
d) A robot bodyguard with white-noise generator.



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17 Jun 2011, 12:05 pm

How was your day?



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18 Jun 2011, 1:51 am

Vivienne wrote:
2) Your internet is gone, caput, over. What do you do?
a) call your service provider and ream them out
b) play video games or read until someone comes to fix it or
c) say 'screw it' and go outside to engage in social activities



surely the aspie answer to this is either:

d) get the backup connection working
e) find whatever comms devices you have, or can aquire / buy and rig up a temporary solution until the ***** at the ISP fix the problem (no point in phoning, I know its down so they OBVIOUSLY already know their service is down and are working their asses off trying to fix it, even though it only went down 2 seconds ago)



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18 Jun 2011, 7:45 am

bergie wrote:
How was your day?


I think I would have answered something like:

Do you want me to answer chronologically, or are you asking for a summarized opinion?



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18 Jun 2011, 8:01 am

KoS wrote:
This isn't really the 'ultimate question' but I thought some of you guys might find it amusing!

My sister went in for re-assessment of her abilites not long ago and her doctor asked her a question which supposed to be a good way to determine if someone is an Aspie or not (not only because of their answer, but because of general reaction to the question).

The question was:

"You have a random number generator, while choosing the number the moving parts of the machine spin, but stop once the machine has chosen a number. If you want to, you can choose to stop the random number generator spinning early manually, but the number resulting from an early stoppage would still be random. Now say you are wanting the generator to produce a specific number, do you stop is spinning or do you let it run it's course?"

What the hell......?

8O


I'd wait, so I can watch the numbers spin for longer.



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18 Jun 2011, 8:05 am

Are you youthful, friendly, smart but socially and emotionally different to that of the wider community



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18 Jun 2011, 11:01 am

ViperaAspis wrote:
KoS wrote:
This isn't really the 'ultimate question' but I thought some of you guys might find it amusing!

My sister went in for re-assessment of her abilites not long ago and her doctor asked her a question which supposed to be a good way to determine if someone is an Aspie or not (not only because of their answer, but because of general reaction to the question).

The question was:

"You have a random number generator, while choosing the number the moving parts of the machine spin, but stop once the machine has chosen a number. If you want to, you can choose to stop the random number generator spinning early manually, but the number resulting from an early stoppage would still be random. Now say you are wanting the generator to produce a specific number, do you stop is spinning or do you let it run it's course?"

What the hell......?

8O


I would SO let it run just so I could check out the spinning parts of the machine!! !! I love stuff that spins.


Yeah. Who cares about the odds of getting a random number? I just wanna see it spin fast.