Quote from: BlueSloth on April 28, 2012, 01:58:32 AM
That score looks alright
I don't like the COGIATI test because it makes too many unstated assumptions about who's taking it (although if you fit those assumptions, great). I like the S.A.G.E. test better. But they both got me right.
The simple, silly gender tests tend to say I'm male or female, pretty much randomly LOL
I think the COGIATI test could be really harmful if the wrong person ran into it. It could really scare someone or destroy their confidence if they got the wrong result. I think we look for these kinds of tests because we're afraid to take responsibility for our decisions, although a lot of the time we're more afraid of other people punishing or judging us than we are of just living with those decisions.
One thing I know is that being autistic made my score much more male than it would otherwise be, although when I took again for the first time in about a year I scored "probable transsexual" instead of "androgyne." That reflects how I'm feeling now, I guess. But both times my scores would be way, way higher if I could remember people's names (memory problems), could recognize people's faces easily (prosopagnosia), could easily read people's feelings, etc... basically super autism=male bias. But then I guess that's why so many autistic women never get diagnosed.
(Oh and I think math is "fun and useful" which turned out to be the malest possible choice. I'm not some kind of math genius, but yes it's fun like a puzzle and yes math is useful for a lot of things. I mean is anyone seriously going to argue that math is useless?)
The autism label makes it very easy for me to describe why this test doesn't fit me very well. Other people may not have a neat label like that, but it could fit them just as badly.