A Really Interesting UK "Brain Sex" Test

[liralen]

Nabbed from rowanf's journal. It's a "Sex ID Test". I like the fact that the results tell you when the results are inconclusive along with the ones where they find things to be more conclusive

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[kathrynt]

Oh, this is hilarious. I scored 25 Female, but what's even funnier is that I outscored the mean by a large margin on every single test section.

[liralen]

*laughs* That Need To Perform!!! *grin*

Yeah. I know it. *hugs you and giggles*

Go you!!!

[ross_teneyck]

I posted my results over on my journal.

I remember reading about the "Ultimatum" game in an old issue of the Caltech magazine; if I remember correctly, it was a Tech econ prof who came up with it and studied the different results around the world.

Given the rules of the game, classical game theory suggests that the first player should offer a split that gives the second player the smallest possible non-zero amount, and the second player should accept any split that gives them more than zero, because any amount is more than they had before.

What he found was that hunter-gatherer cultures immediately zeroed in on the classical game-theory solution, and pretty much played that way. Cultures with market economies were far more likely to both offer a fairly even split, and to reject anything that wasn't close to even. Cultures based on gift-giving and obligation were more likely to offer the lion's share to the other player and to refuse such offers.

[liralen]

That's really interesting!! Cool. I'll peer at your results, too. Hee.

Where Jet gets stuff

[amberley]

The latest Science News has a brief article on how epigenetic shifts throughout life seem to run in families, with some notes on methylation.

Re: Where Jet gets stuff

[liralen]

Woah. THAT is cool!!! Thank you so much for the link!

Re: Where Jet gets stuff

[jilara]

Hmm, that's fascinating, and could have something to do with the fact that when folks in my (paternal) family hit around 50, they somehow start aging *backwards* for a couple decades... (Aging stops, physical problems heal themselves, etc. Drives doctors crazy...)

Re: Where Jet gets stuff

[amberley]

How interesting! But have you checked their attics for paintings?

[marith]

Heh. I don't have a ruler here so can't finish the test, but pretty much bombed all the spatial-recognition parts. ADD may kind of skew the results. :)

[liralen]

*snugs you* Yeah. Well, I bombed the relationship one big-time. *laughs* Add may skew some of them, certainly.

*finds a ruler and mails that to you with the orchid card*

[grey_lady]

I also got 50 Male. I scored much better than I expected (although definitely not perfectly) on the angles and the spatial rotation. Finger ratios were 1.02 and 1.01 - but I have 4 older brothers, which may affect that. I ended up with a lower score than I expected on the verbal fluency test; for some reason my brain seemed to freeze up for that. It was interesting, but generally confirmed what I suspected already. (Although my husband is now wondering about my preference for more feminine faces....)

[liralen]

*grins*

Cool to know.