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  good to know...

I took a little test from the BBC yesterday. It told me that my brain is male. That's nice to know. Here's the official results.
Highlights from the parts of the test.

  1. Spot the difference - This task tested your ability to identify which objects changed position. You lost points, if you incorrectly identified objects.
    Your score: 36%
    If you scored between 34 - 66%: You may have a balanced female-male brain.
  2. Empathising
    Your empathy score is: 9 out of 20
    If you scored 15 and above, you are very empathic and would be an ideal person to comfort people in a time of crisis. Women in general are better at empathising.
  3. Systemising
    Your systemising score is: 17 out of 20
    Systemisers prefer to investigate how systems work. A system can be a road map, flat pack furniture, or a mathematical equation – anything that follows a set of rules. A score of 15 and above suggests you're good at analysing or building systems. Men in general are better at systemising.
  4. Eyes - This task tested your ability to judge people's emotions.
    Your score: 9 out of 10
    If you scored 7 - 10: Your result suggests you are a good empathiser, sensitive to other people's emotions. Women generally fall into this category.
  5. Faces - This task looked at how you rate the attractiveness of a series of faces. The images you looked at were digitally altered to create slight differences in masculinity.
    Your choices suggest you prefer more feminine faces.
  6. 3D shapes - This task tested your ability to mentally rotate 3D shapes.
    Your score: 12 out of 12
    If you scored 10 - 12: Are you an engineer or do you have a science background? People with these skills tend to score in this range. Past studies have concluded that people in this range have a more male brain.

I guess it means that my brain is actually androgynous though, because I'm systematic, and good at "rotating 3-D shapes", but I'm also good at identifying emotions just pictures of eyes.
Who knows.
It's just a test.
And and it was written by some Limeys too.

Posted by neal on Oct 25, 2005 at 05:27 PM | Comments (5)