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Working for a large software company in the UNIX / Linux Engineering group.

I've got a B.S. in Computer and Information Science with a minor in the Geological Sciences. I also do research on network security and routing.

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Autism Quotient

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Sunday January 21 2007, @07:52PM
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Happened upon this while surfing around. In 2001, Wired published some silly test that gives you your "Autism Quotient." Here's the explanation:

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives.

My score? 31.


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  • Noted first-cousin [wikipedia.org] of Ali G and Borat. [msn.com]

    Rothchild pawns - like Isla Fisher and Natalie Portman.


    • Huh, I didn't bother to look up the psychologist. I need some kind of auto-Google thing that remembers persons places and things that I've Googled and hightlights those that I haven't.

      Also, reciprocated the friendship... trying to get better at that anyway.
  • 31!! borderline dearie, perhaps you should investigate further? Cheers http://whitterer-autism.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]
    • Well, even if I am borderline, I'm married and make more money on my own than an average family of four. So, at least I am not unsuccessful.

      • 47. That's about right.

        And where do you live where a family of more than two has more than two incomes? Most places have some kind of child labor laws?
        • I didn't make up the stats. See here [oregon.gov] page 6 of the PDF.

          And where do you live where a family of more than two has more than two incomes? Most places have some kind of child labor laws?

          And what if the family is made up of a husband, wife, grandma, and teenage kid working at McDonalds? That's a working
          family of four right there.
  • I am certainly not autistic, though I tend to have "focuses on one thing" tendencies that could be mistaken for autism :-) I also at times feel like I am an outgoing person trapped in an introverted body.
  • AAACK! This can't be right. Let's try something else [glennrowe.net]...17??! Oh, jeeze... Ok, two out of
    three [glennrowe.net]. 50. This guy obviously thinks I'm some kind of nut. Bah! I don't believe in any of this psycho-babble anyway. There's nothing wrong. It's all in my head. Nothing some good drugs can't fix. :-Q~
  • 35, IOW. Frak 'em if they don't like it. :-)

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