More on the EQSQ Personality Tests….
Many of you enjoyed taking the EQSQ Tests (empathy versus systemizing) mentioned in a previous post. Tim Worstall, who runs the EQSQ site, picked up on my confusion about interpreting my 51 EQ score and my 97 SQ score and offered a very helpful clarification.
If I understand Tim correctly, the difference between my scores and the direction of the difference are the most important aspects. So obviously, I skew towards systemizing, even though my EQ is relatively high. That makes sense. Still, it would be nice to break the results into the four quadrants: low EQ/low SQ, low EQ/high SQ (“traditional” male), high EQ/low SQ (“traditional” female), and high EQ/high SQ (Mr F., Karen, and me). My guess is that you might even find some connections between these four “types” and other, more traditional personality tests like the Myers-Briggs for $59.95 or the free Keirsey Temperament Sorter.
In Kate Gregory’s chart, reprinted in my own post linked above, there seem to be a large number of people who are low on SQ. Tim, do you have any frequency data to share with us?
Thanks again, Tim, for helping us out!
December 12th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
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