Friday, June 10, 2005

How male or female is your brain?

How male or female is your brain?The following tests were developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.
Baron-Cohen's theory is that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems. He calls it the empathizing-systemizing (E-S) theory.
Empathizing is the drive to identify another person's emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion. The empathizer intuitively figures out how people are feeling, and how to treat people with care and sensitivity.
Systemizing is the drive to analyze and explore a system, to extract underlying rules that govern the behavior of a system; and the drive to construct systems.

Follow the above link to take the tests. I really found this really fascinating. My Empathy quotient score was 68 and Systemizing Quotient 55 which makes me a Type B which is extremely balanced according to the graph from the test results. Feel free to post your results on the comments section of the page after taking the test.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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11:18 PM  

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