The eyes have it.

[andrewducker]

Interesting test here which tests your ability to tell people's emotions from looking at their eyes. It's used as one of a series of tests for Aspergers and the like.
[Poll #1642444]

My score was not what I expected.

Comments

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

For I AM Tim Roth.

You may think I got three wrong. No, they got three wrong.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

:-) sociopaths would score very highly, I understand...

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Er...

[andrewducker]

The research I've read shows that sociopaths are frequently very adept people persons. They're just _bastards_ along with it. See, for instance, the thing I linked to the other day about people who rated highly for sociopathy being able to spot "victims" very easily.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Lol. Oh, I know that, I wasn't questioning whether channelpenguin was right. I was 'er'-ing in light of our conversation the other day and my score.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

:-) yeah, I was *relieved* to get some wrong

[andrewducker]

Aaaah! Gotcha.

I have no commentary :->

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

Oh shit. I got 35.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Also, who decides (and how) what the 'correct' emotion is? If they get people to act, they could miss the mark. If it's a consensus of many folks assesment of a picture then who is to say that that is right either? Even if they take tons of photos of people and then ask the people making the expression they may not know themselves by the time they are asked.

[andrewducker]

It doesn't really matter, to be honest. If you have a test that differentiates between people who are X and people who are Y then what you're testing on isn't that important. It could be that aspies always get something right while neurotypical people get it wrong - the test would still be predictive.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise it was a specific test for Asperger's. It's interesting since I have been so often accused of not being able to read people right. Seems I read them just fine...just do not always react in the prescribed/expected way.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

I agree - I'd be interested to see which ones we got wrong and if they were the same.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

I think a few were ambiguous. Certainly I got to a few of them, guessed what they were and that guess didn't appear on the list so I guessed something else. If the differences had been more subtle in the options then I think I would have gotten a lot more wrong.