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Found this via a post on LanguageLog - two tests to see if you are more of an empathizing person or a systemizing person - the usual female/male or artist/engineer stereotype.

Here are your EQ SQ results:


EQ: 32

SQ: 57

The important factor to consider is not your absolute score, but the difference between the two.
This indicates whether you have more natural ability as an Empathizer or a Systemizer. If your
scores are about the same for your EQ and SQ, then you have well balanced empathizing-systemizing
capabilities.

Take the EQ SQ tests

Need I point out that I am both an artist and a librarian, i.e., my paid job is to organize information systematically? Which is a big part of why I don't subscribe to the standrad Artist Brain/Engineer Brain dichotomy: they are at least in part learned patterns of thinking, and to say "I've got X brain" tells me that you're looking for an easy way not to have to try to think another way.

LanguageLog points out:

So Dilbert and Tina have a double dose of group difference: male vs. female, engineering vs. humanities. And the result, it seems to me, is a common situation: a stereotype with a basis in fact.

Remember, though, that those female-vs.-male distributions in EQ and SQ still overlap quite a bit.

And I'll bet that effects of similar size, on the same questionnaire results, can result from differences in cultural background and life experience -- or even from the short-term influence of interventions to shift perceived group norms and values. So we need to be careful in drawing conclusions from such results, whether about individuals or about groups.

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ETA: From the site:

Males Females
Average EQ: 39.0 48.0
Average SQ: 61.2 51.7
Your EQ Score: 32
Your SQ Score: 57