Took Simon Baron-Cohen's SR-Q and EQ tests yesterday, right after I finished the book. Scored 12 in the SR-Q and 3 in the EQ. You subtract SR-Q from EQ to get your AQ, which ranges from -20 to 20 (-20 being Hyper Type E and 20 being Hyper Type S).
Mine came out to 9, which is borderline Hyper Systemizing Extreme Type S. Which validates my deduction all along that my brain's not particularly high in the Empathy Circuit department, but isn't very well wired for systemic pattern detection either. Maybe on the lower end of the Extreme Type S continuum there's proficiency in language and music, which I do seem to have, and on the higher end a natural predilection to math, technology and the sciences, which I suck at (except maybe biology, which I seemed to be good at in school).
In any case, read something yesterday and spent about 10 minutes trying hard to identify a pattern in in it and replicate it with other variables. Was successfully able to do so, and in fact it threw up some ideas for Much Much that we're now working on.
Going to consciously work the pattern recognition thing into more things I'm trying to figure out.
Except maybe for things that have emotion-based motivation as opposed to systemic. Like screenplays.
The test is the last two chapters of The Pattern Seekers.
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