A Really Interesting UK "Brain Sex" Test

[liralen]

Nabbed from rowanf's journal. It's a "Sex ID Test". I like the fact that the results tell you when the results are inconclusive along with the ones where they find things to be more conclusive.

I am highly amused that I scored 50 on the male side, right where your average guy would be, though with the spatial rotation questions, I scored 100%.

If you want to take the test, you should probably do it before seeing my results.



For the angles tests I just got 14 out of 20.

I was completely lost in the "Spot the difference" test: 14%
women's average for it is 46%! men's average is 39%

Dominant Hand: Seems I've flipped to right-brained. Interesting article on why right-brainers might be better fighters and artists. But... I'm still right-handed, which is what bemuses me about this test. I think I'm right-handed, anyway, though I've fought left-handed and written left-handed, and most of my typing is left-handed dominant (stupid qwerty keyboards). I dunno... the article does call out the fact that left-handed fighting always has the advantage that most people don't meet that many left-handers, including the left-handed. I always loved that on our fencing team we had three of us that could be lefty, it's likely why we placed in the state championships even though we were probably the smallest program that entered.

Emotions and Systems: 12 out of 20 on empathy, 19 out of 20 on Systemising (no duh)

Identifying moods through just the eyes: 8 out of 10 (surprised me) average score for everyone: 6.6 out of 10

Index finger:Ring finger ratio: right:.96 left: .97 men's average: .982 women's average .991 It's interesting to think that I might have had more testosterone in the womb than average. It would just make so much sense.

Face attraction: I seem to prefer more feminine faces on guys. Uhm... yeah, I knew that.

3D Shape rotation: 12 out of 12.

Word Associations: 20 words total, average is 11.4 for men, 12.4 for women...
... huh. I guess I've been writing a lot lately. Yeesh.

Ultimatum: £35 *laughs and laughs* I guess I'm too used to negotiating a bargain by starting halfway away from where I want to end up.

I'm not all that sure what it means, though some seem to have a pretty clear correlation (not cause and effect thing), and some of the tests are really interesting on how I can mess it up or not. It's pretty clear, though, that Jet gets the spatial stuff from me as well as from John, so that's kind of interesting. Though it only brings up more interesting thoughts, for me at least, about how the in vitro environment really does affect the baby as it grows.

Just 'cause one might have the same genetic material doesn't mean one might have the same characteristics if the in vitro environment is different. Which is likely why all the genetically identical piglets that were grown in two different mothers (and in their own place within those mothers) were all different when they came out: different colors, shapes, and personalities.

Comments

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is hilarious. I scored 25 Female, but what's even funnier is that I outscored the mean by a large margin on every single test section.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

I posted my results over on my journal.

I remember reading about the "Ultimatum" game in an old issue of the Caltech magazine; if I remember correctly, it was a Tech econ prof who came up with it and studied the different results around the world.

Given the rules of the game, classical game theory suggests that the first player should offer a split that gives the second player the smallest possible non-zero amount, and the second player should accept any split that gives them more than zero, because any amount is more than they had before.

What he found was that hunter-gatherer cultures immediately zeroed in on the classical game-theory solution, and pretty much played that way. Cultures with market economies were far more likely to both offer a fairly even split, and to reject anything that wasn't close to even. Cultures based on gift-giving and obligation were more likely to offer the lion's share to the other player and to refuse such offers.

Where Jet gets stuff

[amberley.livejournal.com]

The latest Science News has a brief article on how epigenetic shifts throughout life seem to run in families, with some notes on methylation.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That Need To Perform!!! *grin*

Yeah. I know it. *hugs you and giggles*

Go you!!!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting!! Cool. I'll peer at your results, too. Hee.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't have a ruler here so can't finish the test, but pretty much bombed all the spatial-recognition parts. ADD may kind of skew the results. :)

Re: Where Jet gets stuff

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Woah. THAT is cool!!! Thank you so much for the link!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*snugs you* Yeah. Well, I bombed the relationship one big-time. *laughs* Add may skew some of them, certainly.

*finds a ruler and mails that to you with the orchid card*

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

I also got 50 Male. I scored much better than I expected (although definitely not perfectly) on the angles and the spatial rotation. Finger ratios were 1.02 and 1.01 - but I have 4 older brothers, which may affect that. I ended up with a lower score than I expected on the verbal fluency test; for some reason my brain seemed to freeze up for that. It was interesting, but generally confirmed what I suspected already. (Although my husband is now wondering about my preference for more feminine faces....)

Re: Where Jet gets stuff

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that's fascinating, and could have something to do with the fact that when folks in my (paternal) family hit around 50, they somehow start aging *backwards* for a couple decades... (Aging stops, physical problems heal themselves, etc. Drives doctors crazy...)

Re: Where Jet gets stuff

[amberley.livejournal.com]

How interesting! But have you checked their attics for paintings?

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Cool to know.

Re: Where Jet gets stuff

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Grin. There have been accusations... We always figured that the reason my father was still blond at 90 was he had a "Dorian Gray moustache" that turned gray when he was 30!

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

Heh. You should put a warning that we need a ruler. I found a tape measure and then had to convert from inches.

I'm a 0, pretty balanced. This was my favorite line though: Are you an engineer or do you have a science background? Why, yes. Yes I am.

I asked for £24 because I only wanted one iteration. I was done answering questions.

[akuni.livejournal.com]

Hmm, this was interesting. I scored 50% female. In general I did better than average, but I tanked at angles.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Hee. I like how you did the iteration. And, yeah, a few people got stymied by the ruler thing. Sorry about that.

And, yeah, that was a pretty cool line. *laughs* Yes. Yes I am.

Neat about being balanced like that!! That's pretty cool.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

That is interesting!

Yeah, it was interesting to find that I just tanked at a few things that I thought I'd do at least okay at, but wow. It's interesting to get a good hard measurement of some of the stuff that goes into this. I can't influence the outcome of the angle one, or the eyes one or the rotation test, so that was kind of nice to see compared to some of the "tests" I've seen out there.

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

Well, if it hadn't been 3 in the morning and typing in my bed, it would have been an easier task to find a ruler...

It makes me wonder if we should be wandering the land looking for girls with "male" brains to recruit into engineering programs. Or perhaps just giving them more opportunities to develop the "male" side. I think having those developed plus an ability to see relationships and use words is a pretty good thing.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*giggles at the setting*

Yes.

I do wonder about that, too. Then they'd know that the target audience would have an easier time with the materials. That would be pretty cool.

I agree, developing both sides is really, really useful, too. It's kind of sad how lost I sometimes am in seeing/dealing with relationship things unless they're really straightforward.