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The Truth about Geeks

Started by RPGPundit, November 08, 2006, 01:22:24 PM

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Dr Rotwang!

#15
November 09, 2006, 08:28:33 AM
Quote from: droogFashion victim?
No, that I can get away with it because of my scintillating charm, sucka.  

I scored a 19.  TREMBLE, YE EARTH-MEN!
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flyingmice

#16
November 09, 2006, 08:47:36 AM
Quote from: StuartWired Dec 2001 -- The Geek Syndrome

And if you're wondering... you know... just 'cause... you can take the AQ Test.  

"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."

I only score 7 on this test... I'm not really all that geeky.  You know... besides the computer thing... and, um... the RPG thing.  ;)

Huh! Interesting! I got a 7 too. Wierd!

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Joey2k

#17
November 09, 2006, 08:58:38 AM
I got a 31. What does that mean?
I'm/a/dude

beejazz

#18
November 09, 2006, 08:59:27 AM
Quote from: TechnomancerI got a 31. What does that mean?
It means I still got te high score.

Ned the Lonely Donkey

#19
November 09, 2006, 09:09:47 AM
Quote from: beejazzAnd yes, pretending makes you retarded (apparently).

Unless I mis-understood the quiz, I think the idea is that pretending makes you less retarded.

Ned
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Blackleaf

#20
November 09, 2006, 09:18:56 AM
This is from the Wired article on Asperger's...
QuoteNick is building a universe on his computer. He's already mapped out his first planet: an anvil-shaped world called Denthaim that is home to gnomes and gods, along with a three-gendered race known as kiman. As he tells me about his universe, Nick looks up at the ceiling, humming fragments of a melody over and over. "I'm thinking of making magic a form of quantum physics, but I haven't decided yet, actually," he explains. The music of his speech is pitched high, alternately poetic and pedantic - as if the soul of an Oxford don has been awkwardly reincarnated in the body of a chubby, rosy-cheeked boy from Silicon Valley. Nick is 11 years old.

Nick's father is a software engineer, and his mother is a computer programmer. They've known that Nick was an unusual child for a long time. He's infatuated with fantasy novels, but he has a hard time reading people. Clearly bright and imaginative, he has no friends his own age. His inability to pick up on hidden agendas makes him easy prey to certain cruelties, as when some kids paid him a few dollars to wear a ridiculous outfit to school.

One therapist suggested that Nick was suffering from an anxiety disorder. Another said he had a speech impediment. Then his mother read a book called Asperger's Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals. In it, psychologist Tony Attwood describes children who lack basic social and motor skills, seem unable to decode body language and sense the feelings of others, avoid eye contact, and frequently launch into monologues about narrowly defined - and often highly technical - interests. Even when very young, these children become obsessed with order, arranging their toys in a regimented fashion on the floor and flying into tantrums when their routines are disturbed. As teenagers, they're prone to getting into trouble with teachers and other figures of authority, partly because the subtle cues that define societal hierarchies are invisible to them.

"I thought, 'That's Nick,'" his mother recalls.

You probably score an extra 5 points just being on this site... ;)

Ned the Lonely Donkey

#21
November 09, 2006, 10:32:33 AM
The scoring of the test shows that you score one point for disagreeing with question 40 - "When I was young, I used to enjoy playing games involving pretending with other children." So playing pretend with other children makes you less Apsergersy.

I think the crucial element of this question is "with other children". They are testing for socialisation, I think, rather than the tendency to pretend. Question 50 is similar.

From the quote above: "He's infatuated with fantasy novels, but he has a hard time reading people. Clearly bright and imaginative, he has no friends his own age." [EDIT: Poor kid.]

Ned
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UmaSama

#24
November 10, 2006, 12:22:10 AM
I got 16
That means I'm just a normal person...right??

mythusmage

#25
November 10, 2006, 01:18:55 AM
Disclosure: 29

The thing I noticed is that the questions for the most part could also be used to gauge the subject's degree of social anxiety. While social anxiety can be used in diagnosing Autism, it does play a role in matters such as, well, Anxiety Disorder. :)
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dar

#26
November 10, 2006, 01:42:47 AM
23

wha?

Definitely anxiety disorder, definitely. Or this fucking job.

Aos

#27
November 10, 2006, 01:44:49 AM
23 but I may have been second guessing myself. I can socialize- I'm actually rather good at it, from all accounts. Regardless I hate being around other people for the most part, unless I've known them for a long time. I am very good at hiding it, though.
But fossil people are okay.
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Sosthenes

#28
November 10, 2006, 01:59:16 AM
35

I'm an excellent driver.
 
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