[lbo-talk] How Gay Are You?

[Jim Devine]

I recently did two 60-question quizzes that Simon Baron-Cohen (Sasha's
cousin) put on the GUARDIAN web-site. If I didn't think of myself as
having mild Asperger's syndrome, I probably wouldn't have done so
poorly on the Empathy scale. While I was doing the quiz, it was
impossible to not think about "what this question is testing" and to
consciously or unconsciously answer in terms of my self-image. The
same goes for the gay scale. Since being gay isn't as totally
acceptable in society as it should be, a lot will end up grading
themselves as totally hetero.

(BTW, my score on B-C's Systematization test was average for males.)

On 2/6/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Jim Devine wrote:
>
> >  > What is everyone else?
> >
> >I'm a 3, but such quizzes are silly. To a large extent you get the
> >score you want.
>
> But isn't it useful to know what score you want?
>
> Doug
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Jim Devine

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an
intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin