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Measuring Empathizing and Systemizing with a Large US Sample

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  • Daniel B Wright
  • Elin M Skagerberg

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A large number of people completed one of two versions of the empathizing quotient (EQ) and systemizing quotient (SQ). One version had the negatively phrased items all re-worded. These re-worded items were answered more rapidly than the original items, and for the SQ produced a more reliable scale. Subjects gave self-assessments of empathizing and systemizing, and these were moderately correlated, r≈.6, with their respective quotients. Females had on average higher empathizing scores and males had on average higher systemizing scores. If a female-male pair was chosen at random, the female would have the higher empathizing score about two-thirds of the time, and the males would have the higher systemizing score about two-thirds of the time.

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  • Daniel B Wright & Elin M Skagerberg, 2012. "Measuring Empathizing and Systemizing with a Large US Sample," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(2), pages 1-10, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0031661
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031661
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