I encountered this page in my travels over the web. It's intriguing, quite possibly utter rubbish, but it entertained me for a bit. And it told me that I have a 'male brain', so maybe it's not all bad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml

I'd be interested to see what results others get - post your 'brain-sex' here. : )

It says mostly female, with really really high spatial and verbal components.

Interesting. I'm on the female side too, although not quite as far as the average woman -- but way far off from the average man. 

I was afraid this was going to be another one of those "fun quizzes" with question like, "would you rather go shopping or watch football?" No, this test actually had some science behind it. And most of it isn't really cheatable so you can't just get the answer you want to make yourself feel better. I was afraid I was going to end up on the male side of the spectrum and then feel like crap all day. But I didn't! Yay!

I already knew it, but it's nice to have it reaffirmed.

no Quizzes for me i know who i am and what i am hugs and greetings from  Miss Jill in Alabama

 I took the test just to confirm.  It  said I am way on the female side.

I did this half a year ago and it said I was on the female side as well.

Interesting.

For those who didn't recognize it, it's a little bit like gendering people by their body proportions and voices, except that those traits develop at puberty and the ones tested are prenatal.

Also, the sex differences are minute in average.  There's probably some kind of classification step in the scoring to amplify these differences, so that the final score will avoid giving an ambiguous answer.

Oh, and I caught a bug in the words test.  If you put one word per line, you'll only get credit for one, no matter how many you enter.  Oopsies.  I should take it again, because I totalled over a dozen easily...  Hit that spacebar, folks.



So, for me.  Yes, I have excellent spatial reasoning but details give me problems.  I have to read emotion from verbal subtext, because I'm not so great at expressions and body language.  I also have male digit ratios and male primary sex characteristics.  No real surprises.

I'm sure I was more male the last time I took it, but this time it said I was bang smack in the middle.  Going down the list of explanations for your score in each section, all apart from one were male.  I don't know how they judge it.  On one bit it said that the average male has a score of 11, but a couple of lines down that if you have a score of over 6 you were female brained.  That doesn't make sense to me.

The attraction thing was pretty hard for me as demisexual.

Quote from: AlexanderC on August 20, 2013, 02:28:22 PM
I don't know how they judge it.

QuoteThe results are based on the angles, spot the difference, 3D shapes and words tasks.

Plus amplifying small differences.

QuoteThe attraction thing was pretty hard for me as demisexual.

Yeah, no kidding.  Me too.  Whenever the topic comes up, I feel just like Mulan:

Quote from: musicofthenight on August 20, 2013, 02:48:30 PM

QuoteThe results are based on the angles, spot the difference, 3D shapes and words tasks.

Plus amplifying small differences.

The words one was the one where the average and the ranges in the description was off.

I'm on the man side. Not surprising. I have a male brain. I've always known that. Doesn't mean I'm not transgender. The gender structure in my brain wants me to be female. That has nothing to do with the rest of my brain.

I don't think it's utter nonsense. It does seem to indicate typically male and female lines of thinking. No one should confuse this and gender identity, though. If it were the same, we'd have to force a lot of female scientists and male psychologists to transition.

Also, the first thing I noticed is that the test was absolutely not made for the 21st century. All example games are board games, they talk about buying a stereo and, most of all, programming a VHS recorder.

Comment while doing the test: No matter what the end result is, my scores are low in both male (systemizing) and female (empathizing) categories. I think I suck.

Also, sucks that they say sexual partner only. Not everyone falls in love with who they want to have sex with and vice versa. Not to mention that there's no option for undecisive bisexuals. ._.

And uhm, that part with related words... It's only valid for native speakers, isn't it?

I appear to fall directly in the female average, though, at 50.

Details are...

Angles: 13 - lowest value for the androgynous range, close to the female range.

Spot the difference: Precisely 50 %. Androgynous, slightly leaning towards female.

Hands: Left thumb on top. Apparently, as a right brain dominant person, I should be good at visual, spatial and intuitive processes. Not sure what intuitive processes are, but I know my visual memory and sense of orientation are rather bad.

Emotions and systems: Empathy 8 (just a tiny bit above the male average); Systemizing 4 (way below the average value for women, 8, and even worse compared to men) - even though I was never exactly awful at maths.

Eyes: 7/10, compared to the average of 6.6 for BOTH men and women (what's the point of the test, then?)... even though they say women generally fall in the category of 7-10. Maybe they mistyped the number.

Fingers: 0.91 and 0.9, compared to the male (0.982) and female (0.991) average. Either I don't know how to measure, either I have super mega masculine fingers. Well, not that my hands ever looked feminine in any way.

Faces: I chose women, even though I wasn't sure, since I mostly fall in love with women but am mostly sexually attracted to men... and I thought they probably wouldn't be showing "exciting" things so I chose the love part. So basically I prefer more feminine faces. The result explanations only conver heterosexuals, though. If I'd knew, I'd have chosen men.

3D shapes: 6/12, lower than the female average of 7.1, and even worse compared to men. Though I got all of them right, I only got through half of the test. I'm slow, especially at this kind of stuff.

Words: 13 for grey and 11 for happy (24 total), compared to the male (11.4 total) and female (12.4 total) averages... Hah? The heck? People can't think of more than 5-6 grey things or signs of happiness in a minute each? And here I struggled because I'm not a native English speaker... Either I went wider than allowed in my associations, either I just don't understand.

Ultimatum: I demanded precisely half the money, which makes me more generous than both genders. Pff, selfish people. Apparently demanding "only" 60 % of the pot or less is typically female and going with 65 % or more is typically male. Anyone heard of fairness? xD

Mostly female each time I've tried this test. The closest I've ever come to male on it is the exact middle ground between male and female.

The part where we have to choose our preference for one or the other gender is rather irritating for someone who is bisexual.

Quote from: Alexia on August 20, 2013, 04:12:36 PM
The part where we have to choose our preference for one or the other gender is rather irritating for someone who is bisexual.

Don't worry about it. It doesn't matter, since the result analyses they provide us are only valid for heterosexuals anyway. And women's results mention menstrual cycle.

Also, not sure you're supposed to redo the test. :p

Quote from: A on August 20, 2013, 04:19:25 PM
Also, not sure you're supposed to redo the test. :p

Lol, did it just to see how different the results would be if I changed preferences for partners.

So I guess it means I'm butch as a lesbian or feminine as a straight girl or maybe the other way around :p I've forgotten how I answered the preferences part of the test 

Lol I don't know about brain sex but it can tell you if your trans or not. Because really what cis person is looking for affirmation of their gender? 
But really this test like all the tests like these are so easy to manipulate. I can literally score high in the male or female range because I know what the tests are looking for. But the test told me I liked masculine men yeah I didn't know that!

The sexual partner was silly for me. I just stuck to the middle. I also fluffed up the shapes as I didn't realize you could choose two - I started to rush as to not have time to properly think.

My personal Brain is apparently in the middle xD

A few years ago (before I was aware that I am transsexual) I was surfing the web and I found a link to this test. It sounded interesting so I spent a few minutes on it and it told me basically that i had both female and male thinking patterns.

I thought about that for awhile and the puzzle pieces of my past started to slowly drift together and make sense.

This test cracked open the door for me and provided the first inkling of what was coming.

Yeah, this test pretty much didn't tell me anything that I didn't know already... that my brain leans toward the female side, but isn't completely there.

I've always considered myself a 6 on a scale of 0-10 where 0-4 is male, 5 is androgynous, and 6-10 is female. This test would put me at about a 6.5 on that same scale. (It gave me a 25 on the female side, where the average woman scores a 50.)

Same things that I've always known. I have very female senses of communication, vocabulary, creativity, and social interaction, but VERY male senses of navigation and spatial ability. So I fall somewhere in the middle, with my female side slightly more dominant.

The test has some inherent flaws, and obviously it's not a 'trans-detector' - not by any means. But it's still interesting that most people are on the same spectrum as their gender identity.

I also had trouble with the 'sexually attractive faces' question. In an ideal world there would be more options - and also questions that are less obvious in terms of what their answers will say about you. I had to be very honest with myself and not just pick the answers I thought would be best for my self esteem. It's nice to know that I still come out where I feel I should be.