What is your brain sex?

[tinkerbell]

Yes, another test , but this time, Grazia suggested it, and I thought it was .
different and more interesting than the other ones

If you are not interested in taking this test, you really don't have to
And here is a quote from the site rules:

If someone wants to discuss a subject you are not interested in either suggest a new subject; go to another of the many areas on this site; or ignore that person, topic, or discussion.

And here is the test:

What is your brain sex? 🔗 [Link: bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_​user.shtml/]

From 0 to 100, my score was 50

you prefer men with more masculine faces

Of course I do!. 😀 ...geez that was news to me


tinkerbell

[Buffy]

Hi Tinkerbell,

It is worth me saying a bit about the test that is on the BBC Website.

This formed part of a BBC TV programme that explored the differences between GENDER, "The Secrets of the Sexes". It also was used for research purposes in Gender Studies.

It followed a number of men and women in their daily lives, as well as testing them on a variety of "classroom activities" and also "external activities"

The programme was extremely well done and gave an excellent insight into Gender differences in communication, spatial awareness and how we think and act.... and then assessed their Brain Sex.

The scene was set by all the participants coming to the studio in a taxi (same taxi driver every time), who told the passenger his life story and in depth detail about his divorce. They where all asked the same questions in the studio and the women related every detail about his life, clothes he was wearing etc, the guys of course remembered very little.

Two points really stood out to me, All the women performed very poorly at the spatial awareness tests (apart from one, who wasa mechanical Engineer)... Such as parking a car, driving a JCB, etc...

All the guys, apart from one failed miserably to comfort and change a crying baby (even though they where Fathers themselves).

Both these examples where interesting as the Woman Engineer (had a brain sex on the masculine side) AND the guy of course had a brain sex on the Feminine side.

Me... I took this test as part of the survey carried out in the UK, not surprisingly I came out.....to the middle of the Feminine side (and yes I prefer man with masculine faces).

Rebecca

[cindianna_jones]

I got a 25 on the male side.  But that's not all that hard to explain with a background in engineering and science, my test results are always skewed to that side.  Tests still assume that women can't learn or read.

But here are the specifics:

for Angles, I scored female  (13 of 20)

Spot the difference(21):  very low for average male

Right hand on top means that I am verbal and analytical not artistic or spatial (wierd because I scored perfect on the spatial test )

Way feminine on the empathy score (16)... higher than most women who average 10.6.

Systemizing (20 out of 20) Women average is 8  Male average score is 12.5 I have no idea what this means for me.

Empathy I scored slightly higher than normal leaning towards female (8 out of 10)

Fingers:  Get this.. female.  go figure.  I used a set of calipers.

Faces: I prefer feminine faces.  Duh 😉 I don't know if this is a female or male trait.

3D spatial recognition.  Perfect score 12 out of 12.  Male

Words:  I scored 15 on both sets.  Definitely female

Ultimatum:  I asked for 50 percent.  Definitely female

So I'm not sure that I learned anything new... other than my fingers are feminine.  Yea right

Cindi

[tinkerbell]

Hi Tinkerbell,

It is worth me saying a bit about the test that is on the BBC Website.

This formed part of a BBC TV programme that explored the differences between GENDER, "The Secrets of the Sexes". It also was used for research purposes in Gender Studies.

It followed a number of men and women in their daily lives, as well as testing them on a variety of "classroom activities" and also "external activities"

The programme was extremely well done and gave an excellent insight into Gender differences in communication, spatial awareness and how we think and act.... and then assessed their Brain Sex.

The scene was set by all the participants coming to the studio in a taxi (same taxi driver every time), who told the passenger his life story and in depth detail about his divorce. They where all asked the same questions in the studio and the women related every detail about his life, clothes he was wearing etc, the guys of course remembered very little.

Two points really stood out to me, All the women performed very poorly at the spatial awareness tests (apart from one, who wasa mechanical Engineer)... Such as parking a car, driving a JCB, etc...

All the guys, apart from one failed miserably to comfort and change a crying baby (even though they where Fathers themselves).

Both these examples where interesting as the Woman Engineer (had a brain sex on the masculine side) AND the guy of course had a brain sex on the Feminine side.

Me... I took this test as part of the survey carried out in the UK, not surprisingly I came out.....to the middle of the Feminine side (and yes I prefer man with masculine faces).

Rebecca

Thank you so much Becky for informing us about this test; personally I liked it better than the other ones.  Actually the person who suggested this test is Grazia, one of our newest members, but I don't think too many people saw it posted under one of my threads, so I decided to give it a try and see what everyone thought about it. Take care and say hi to the little devils for me!


tinkerbell


CINDI: Actually my fingers turned out to be feminine in size.  I am only 7 1/2 to an 8 (ring size)  I thought my fingers were wide but apparently they are not...I am crushed!!!

[Hazumu]

Hi Tinkerbell,

It is worth me saying a bit about the test that is on the BBC Website.

This formed part of a BBC TV programme that explored the differences between GENDER, "The Secrets of the Sexes". It also was used for research purposes in Gender Studies.
>snip<

I have nothing but respect for the programs (or programmes) produced by Auntie Beeb.  I remember another one produced on sex and sexuality.  It had a maximum of interesting information and a minimum of purient interest, and the stuff that was puriently interesting was there to totally support the hard science.  But, I digress...

BBC-produced shows often end up on the Discovery or TLC networks over in the Colonies, so watch for 'em.

I took the test a while back.  While I don't remember all the scores, the ones that made me go 'eh?' were the one where you rotate the cube figures (perfect score), fingers (although my ring finger looks longer than my index, the measured difference was in the can't determine range), and ultimatum (what?  The people who offer less than half outnumber me?  By a wide margin?)

I think these sorts of tests need to be coupled with measurements of IQ.  Somewhere I read that as IQ increases, the differences between the genders decrease.  Or rather, IQs above 110~115 are often due to enhancement of traits common to the opposite gender, i.e., girls who can parallel park and mentally rotate figures, boys who can read faces and think of lots of synonyms, antonyms and homonyms for a given word.

Top it off with transsexuals who are transtitioning/transitioned tend to be of above average IQ, and OF COURSE our results are going to be skewed, silly! 

...ACK!  I'm being late for work!!!

Karen

[Melissa]

I took this test before
but I don't remember my score
I'm too tired to take this test
Maybe I'll just give it a rest

Melissa

[Kate]

I'm a ZERO overall, lol...

I scored fairly masculine in most areas, except:

Your empathy score is: 14 out of 20
Your systemising score is: 6 out of 20
Eyes: Your score: 9 out of 10

Amusing, as it DOES describe the feeling of being "me." I've often joked that I feel like I was forced to go F2M... and that the more-feminine empathetic core remains, but it's encrusted over by a shell of typically masculine abilities.

Neat test!

[Kimberly]

After A LOT of digging,

50 on the Female side. *shrug*
One of the forums I visit listed this test a while ago; For a long time I was wondering if it could spit out anything other than 50(F), 0, 50(M). I think we eventually got a 24 or something like that though.

An yes I did and do like female faces, no surprise there.

[grazia]

Hi!,
as I told in another post, I got a 50.
I think that this test is based on a serious research, but anyway I wonder to know if it measures (or guesses) the sex of brain or maybe the way the brain is influenced by the environment where the girl or the boy is living and growing.
Just as an example, I do not need a test to know that I am able to perceive the feelings of the people I relate to.
Maybe this one could be an innate ability. But is it just the same for other kind of abilities?
I believe that spatial abilities depends a lot on experiences done. If I have never used a map I can easily get in trouble the first time I have to find the way home besides of the sex of my brain. And that a 'female' brain who has experience (and technique) can easily outperform a 'male' brain with no experience at all.

, Grazia

[Ellissa Ray]

the only thing I think makes this test less adaquite for us is the portions that emphasize the pressence of testosterone and estrogen. concidering we are in bodies producing the wrong hormones for the gender we identify with, which will score us further away from that gender. that aside my score comes to be 50% male, and I tend to be right in the middle except for the shape and spacial, and fingers (male) and the word and ultimatum (female).
so what do I conclude? not sure, more than anything it just reasures the fact that I feel both male and female, but it makes me wounder(as I already did) how much of that is afected by the impropor hormones. hence my continuing desire for an HRT trial, will I stay in the middle or move far more female?

[Melissa]

Interestingly, I've noticed a decrease in my spatial relations ability since hormones.  Seriously.  Normally if somebody is describing directions, I can picture in my head as if I'm looking down at a 3-D map.  Well, I was asking a guy for directions and I kept totally getting it wrong and had to have him draw me a map.  IT was weird not to be able to do that.  Maybe there is more of a connection to that and hormones.

Melissa

[Sheila]

I scored 25 on the female side. I was kind of amazed as I thought I would score more on the male side being male most of my life. I put down I like women but came up with I like masculine faces. Hmmm. I scored mainly on the fem side except one part where I didn't do so hot and was totally male. I could have done more words, but I forgot the commas the first time around and had to go and put them in and I don't type that fast.
Sheila

[Cin]

Hi all
I wasn't sure which ones were for males and female so I had no idea where I would end up at the end of the test. I scored 50 on the female side my strongest points was empathy at 17 and the eye one I got 5. I enjoyed doing the male faces and I got all of them.  🙂 By the way I just joined three days ago my name is Cynthia I go by Cin I been full time for five years.

Cin 

[umop ap!sdn]

Welcome, Cin!

I've taken this test so many times... going by memory here... I got most of the angles right, I mean they're practically side by side. On one hand my fingers are the same length; on the other, my index is actually longer. On identifying the emotions in the eyes, I got a high score but don't remember exactly what it was.

I've told it at different times to show me both men's and women's faces; don't remember how the men's turned out but with the women I kept thinking, well gosh I'm not particularly attracted to either face, thus I gave it mostly neutral answers. In the end it said I prefer feminine faces. *shrug*

Rotating the shapes in 3D space was the hardest. It's like I couldn't rotate them in my mind so I had to look at how many blocks were in each segment and narrow it down by the way the turns went relative to each other. I wonder if that skewed my results. Didn't do too well with the words, but that's because I have CRS.

And I asked for 50%.

In the end, IIRC it gave me 50% male. I'm really not sure why.

[Kim]

50 on female side. And this is surprising?? Interesting test, though I find most tests only tell us what we already know. Still fun to do though 

[sheila18]

50 female side, what does it means?

isn't 50 on the female side realy the same as 50 on the male side

head or tails?
heads
[...flip  heads come up]
ah you are heads on the face up
but tails on the bottom side
I geuess women cant be architects or programers ha? i disagree
this to me proves that scientist are cluless as to what is truly femenine
I say we are
sheila18

[grazia]

Hi!

Interestingly, I've noticed a decrease in my spatial relations ability since hormones. 

Thanks, this is really interesting. I was thinking that hormones do not alter such abilities. I believe that my spatial abilities are still more or less the same then before, but I'll like to know if someone else has had similars effects.

[umop ap!sdn]

They do affect some abilities. I once read a scientific article where a bunch of volunteers were given the game where you uncover figures in a grid and have to remember where they are so you can match them. Postmenopausal women taking estrogen consistently did better than those not taking estrogen; the latter scored about the same as men.

[fusi]

hehe i got 25 on the female side - a nice suprise 🙂 considering im a super techno programmer geek! 😀 nice test!

Angles
     
Your score: 15 out of 20
Average score for men: 15.1 out of 20
Average score for women: 13.3 out of 20

Spot the difference

Your score: 79%
Average score for men: 39%
Average score for women: 46%

Hands

You said your left thumb was on top when you clasped your hands together.

Emotions and Systems

Your empathy score is: 13 out of 20
Average score for men: 7.9 out of 20
Average score for women: 10.6 out of 20

Systemising

Your systemising score is: 9 out of 20
Average score for men: 12.5 out of 20
Average score for women: 8.0 out of 20

Eyes

Your score: 7 out of 10
Average score for men: 6.6 out of 10
Average score for women: 6.6 out of 10

Fingers

Right Hand: 1.02
Left Hand: 1.05
Average ratio for men: 0.982
Average ratio for women: 0.991

Faces

Your choices suggest you prefer more feminine faces.

3D shapes

Your score: 11 out of 12
Average score for men: 8.2 out of 12
Average score for women: 7.1 out of 12

Words

Your score: you associated 9 word(s) with grey and you named 9 word(s) that mean happy. We are assuming that all the words you entered are correct.
Average score for men: 11.4 words total
Average score for women: 12.4 words total

Ultimatum

If you had to split £50 with someone, you said you would demand £25
So far on the Sex ID test, men have demanded 51.6% (£25.80) of the pot and women have demanded 51.0% (£25.50), on average.

[umop ap!sdn]

Okay, aside from the 3D shapes and the words your results were that strongly feminine and it only gave you a 25? 😮 Now I know something is wrong with the test! 😛