The Wired AQ Test

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There are a few questions in this test which strike me as fairly irrelevant and biased in favor of introversion (rather than extroversion) and mathematical/abstract thinking (rather than visual or kinesthetic).

Some autistic people are interested in other people and in learning to interact with them, but they either don't know how to do this properly, or they do it in odd ways which may baffle others. Neither are all of them good at math and fascinated with numbers and dates; if anything, an autistic person whose thinking is very factual, for instance, a pronounced visual thinker, is likely to have more trouble than average with math and related subjects (it appllies for non-autistic people too, of course).

I also strongly doubt that any more or less pronounced visual thinker would have difficulty creating a picture in their mind when reading or talking about something - and, apparently, there are quite a few visual thinkers in the autistic population (even though, contrary to Grandin's claims, visual thinking is not at all unique to autism, and not obligatory for all autistic people either).

The code on the page seems to be broken so I can't do this test at the moment, but as far as I remember, I got a score of 31-33 when I did it some time ago.

The thing to remember is that this test is used to determine if a person is NOT autistic. A score above doesn't indicate AS, it just suggests that it's likely, and further testing may be necessary. A score below the certain threshold will indicate that a person does not have AS, and can be ruled out. A subtle, yet important distinction.

I think some of the questions can be a bit confusing to someone who has a very literal interpretation of the wording, and may influence the score a bit. Overall, it's a pretty respected test though. I scored a 41 the first time I took it, and I doubted myself, so I did it again, and if there was any doubt as to an answer, I answered the way that is least associated with AS tenmdencies. I got a 38. Oh well...

This confuses me so much.

My answers don't seem to add up right. For instance, the first statement "I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own" should give me a point as I answered strongly disagree.
It is showing my score for question 1 as 0. There are many other questions which it's not right for either.
Am I being really thick and looking in the wrong place for my score or something? I added up the numbers after pressing Calculate Score.

I got the source code... no lie...

The last time I took the quiz I scored 37. I usually score the same but I'm unsure of some of the questions.

I did the test a few weeks ago. It didn't work, just gave me the source code of the script. Complete waste of time.

I got a 25. Diagnosed when I was 9.

Just took the AQ test and got 50.

I took it twice in about 2 months, first time I got 38, second time I got 33.

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I took it January and got 44 I think. I tried to take it just now, but went I hit the calculate score button, my school's internet filter blocked the page claiming the page had porn on it