{"id":41,"date":"2009-09-01T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/?p=41"},"modified":"2009-09-01T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T19:58:28","slug":"relevance-of-attwoods-aspie-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Relevance of Attwoods Aspie criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I checked Tony Attwoods &#8220;Aspie criteria&#8221; in Aspie-quiz. The statements were reformulated as questions and added as experimental questions (and thus were mixed-up with ordinary questions). It was done like this so people would answer them truthfully. Attwoods statements have mixed relevance, with a few highly relevant statements, and some with absolutely no relevance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Very good relevance <\/strong>(more than 0.6 in correlation to Aspie-score)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Do you have acute sensitivity to specific sensory experiences and stimuli (e.g. hearing, touch, vision, and\/or smell)? <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Good relevance<\/strong> (between 0.45 and 0.59 in correlation)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span> Do you dislike discussing a topic that may not be of primary interest? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you have an strong preferece for detail over gestalt? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you have an original, often unique perspective in problem solving? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you have an avid perseverance in gathering and cataloguing information on a topic of interest? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you have knowledge of routines and a focused desire to maintain order and accuracy? <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some relevance<\/strong> (between 0.3 and 0.44 in correlation)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span> Do you speak your mind irrespective of social context or adherence to personal beliefs? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you seek an audience or friends capable of enthusiasm for unique interests and topics? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Are you primarily interested in significant contributions to conversation over ritualistic small talk or socially trivial statements and superficial conversation? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you prefer conversation free of hidden meaning or agenda? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you have an advanced use of pictorial metaphors? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Do you have exceptional memory and\/or recall of details often forgotten or disregarded by others, for example: names, dates, schedules, routines? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Are your thoughts persistent? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you have encyclopaedic or &#8220;CD ROM&#8221; knowledge of one or more topics? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Are you values\/decision making unaltered by political or financial factors? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Are you a &#8220;social unsung hero&#8221; with trusting optimism: frequent victim of social weaknesses of others, while steadfast in the belief of the possibility of genuine friendship? <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span> <strong>Insignificant relavance<\/strong> (between 0.15 and 0.29 in correlation)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span> Do you show absolute loyalty and impeccable dependability in peer relationships? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Are you determined to seek the truth? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you have an advanced vocabulary and interest in words? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Are you fascinated with word-based humor (e.g. puns)? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span> Do you often take care of others outside the range of typical development? <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>No relevance<\/strong> (less than 0.15 in correlation)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Are you free of sexist, &#8220;age-ist&#8221; or culturalist biases and regard others at &#8220;face value&#8221;?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Do you have the ability to pursue personal theory or perspective despite conflicting evidence?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Do you listen without continual judgement or assumption?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Do you seek sincere, positive, genuine friends with an unassuming sense of humor?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Are you good at individual sports and games, particularly those involving endurance or visual accuracy, including rowing, swimming, bowling, chess?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Have you attended university after high school?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of the statements are related to Aspie talent, which is expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I checked Tony Attwoods &#8220;Aspie criteria&#8221; in Aspie-quiz. The statements were reformulated as questions and added as experimental questions (and thus were mixed-up with ordinary questions). It was done like this so people would answer them truthfully. Attwoods statements have mixed relevance, with a few highly relevant statements, and some with absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rdos.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}