What Sex Is Your Brain?

[poliphilo]

Here's a fascinating (and seriously scientific) quiz from the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/brainsex
It measures the sexual identity of the brain.

I come out, not entirely to my surprise, as 100% female- which is to say a good deal girlier than the average girl.

So incidentally does craftyailz

It takes about three quarters of an hour to complete.

Comments

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

So you're a lesbian?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Seems like it.

I was, as it happens, married to a lesbian first time round......

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Well; everybody knows that the lesbo-bug is contageous! You must have gotten it off her, then!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

So now I know.;)

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

You must seclude yourself from society, you know. Its your duty!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I already do.

LJ is the only place where I come out and feel the sun.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

I appear to be 100% female, which should make my husband happy, but what I find most interesting is that I am left-brain dominant and quite possibly an engineer, because of my really great spatial ability. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I am right brain dominant, but my spatial skills aren't bad. Better, anyway, than I anticipated.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

I figure the spatial part really helps when I create a costume pattern by looking at a painted portrait, but an engineer? MOI??? The world and all who know me scoff.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I am descended from engineers. My grandfather and father both knew better than to expect me to follow in their footsteps.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

I'm the freak artsy one in a family of economists, scientific types and doctors. BUT the whole family calls on me when one of their kids needs help with anything literary, artsy or historical.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My fathers family were a pragmatic lot. I get my artsiness from my mother's side- where they are all priests, Quakers, artists and crafts-persons.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I must be a third sex, or too dumb to take the test.

I went to the second page of angles, saw the straight line at the top, and didn't see anything to select.

Then I dumbly clicked on "learn more" and bounced right out of the test.

At least you made it to one of the sexes. I think I may be a chimp or something.

I think I will try again. Hope it'll let me back in.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Carry on. It's fun.

And it's given me a lot to think about.

[butterscotch711.livejournal.com]

100% female, although I scored well on the logic/spatial relations type ones.

Having done a fair bit of gender studies, I always find the science (and mostly pseudo-science) that surrounds 'men vs women' stuff a bit iffy ... but I haven't exactly looked into it in great detail. It said the result is based only on the mind tests, so I'm assuming the rest is for their research - which is good, because the rest (all the little questions) struck me as addressing learned behaviours, so I assume that's part of what they're researching.

I found the faces one the most interesting. I am only attracted to guys, but apparantly I find feminine faces the most attractive.

[butterscotch711.livejournal.com]

* but apparantly I find feminine faces the most attractive.

e.g. my icon, which is a male's face, but apparantly people can't tell that.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'd assumed it was a woman. Probably because of the hair. Now I study it more closely I see it's androgynous.

I <3 androgyny.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And I'm attracted to "masculine" women. That took me back a bit.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with the post, but I thought I'd let you know I've added you and craftyailz to my reading (aka "Friends") list.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's great. Nice to meet you. I'm adding you back.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

My browser doesn't make the cut. The quiz wants some flavor of Flash that I don't have. So the sexual identity of my brain will continue to be a mystery to me.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

What a shame. it's an entertaining quiz.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I am exactly halfway between male and female.

A shock.

But something went badly awry on the verbal part of the test! I was given only one point for my synonyms for "grey" and "happy"--even though I typed all sorts of words--well, I thought I did--that might work--as "joyful" and "dove."

They said I was a "strong, silent type."

Oh, no I am not! I protest!

Fascinating. And you got 100% female! Even more fascinating.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The snarl-up over the words has almost certainly skewed the final result. I should imagine that your real score is closer to the female end of the scale.

I feel very comfortable with my 100% female. it confirms what I have always suspected.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

I had a similar problem--it did not register my words for "grey", only for "happy". I may have scored closer to the middle, in truth.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

I scored 25% male--no surprise, and I'll bet my husband would not score that high. *g*

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I have this image of us all walking about with masks on. Strip 'em off and there are more than a few surprises.

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know what I get!!!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Make sure it registers all your words for grey. A couple of people have been tripped up by the technology at that point.

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Finally completed it. It appears I am somewhere between man and woman. This was interesting:

Your empathy score is: 5 out of 20
Average score for men: 4 - 12
Average score for women: 8 - 15

Your systemising score is: 16 out of 20
Average score for men: 8 - 16
Average score for women: 3 - 12

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Cool.

I liked the bit with the faces best. There's another similar test on the site which determines whether you're attracted to introverts or extroverts.

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

This is a really nifty site. Thanks for sharing the linklove!

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I got 100% female but I scored resonably high on spacial awareness and quite low on empathy!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's a little curious....

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

yes, the same thing happened to me! i scored high on spatial awareness and systemizing, and low on empathy, and it still said i was 100% female. not quite what i was expecting...

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Interesting quiz. I scored 100% female, although most of my scores were in the 'mixed' category. I've taken other tests, which could not figure out what I was.

I think this test had a glitch, but that's OK- it was still interesting.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm also beginning to wonder if there's a glitch. Too many people who seemed to achieve "balanced" scores ended up with an "extreme" result. Oh well...