Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Part 1
Angles
This task tested your ability to identify the angle of a line by matching it with its twin. This is a spatial task, which looks at how you picture space.
Your score: 13 out of 20
Average score for men: 15.1 out of 20
Average score for women: 13.3 out of 20
What does your result suggest?
If you scored 0 - 12: You have more of a female brain. Scientists believe that people with a female brain find it more difficult to judge the slope of a line because they're not wired for spatial tasks. In past studies, 65 per cent of people who scored in this range were women.
If you scored 13 - 17: You found this test neither hard nor easy. This suggests your brain has male and female traits when it comes to spatial ability.
If you scored 18 - 20: You have more of a male brain. On average, men outperform women in this task and those with more mathematical knowledge tend to score quite high as well. In past studies, 60 per cent of the people in this range were men.
Interestingly, men's testosterone levels fluctuate through the seasons and studies have shown that men's scores are lower in the spring, when their testosterone levels are at their lowest.
Do our cave dwelling ancestors offer us any clues about why men and women score differently on this task?
Spot the difference
This task tested your ability to identify which objects changed position. You lost points, if you incorrectly identified objects.
Your score: 36%
Average score for men: 39%
Average score for women: 46%
What does your score suggest?
If you scored between 0 - 33%: You may have more of a male brain. Scientists say men tend to under perform in this task. The corpus callosum, the part of the brain that links the right and left hemispheres, is a fifth larger in women. This means women can process visual and other signals at the same time more easily than men. There is also a theory that oestrogen levels in women give them an added advantage in spatial memory.
If you scored between 34 - 66%: You may have a balanced female-male brain.
If you scored between 67 - 100%: Those with a female-type brain generally score in this range. Your ability to remember where objects are may serve as an advantage to you when you're trying to find your way around places. You're more capable of recalling landmarks to get from one place to another.
Part 2Hands
You said your left thumb was on top when you clasped your hands together.
Right thumb on top: This suggests the left half of your brain is dominant. Many studies have tried to establish whether there is a relationship between handedness and brain dominance. Some scientists believe that if you are left brain dominant, you would be more verbal and analytical.
Left thumb on top: This suggests the right half of your brain is dominant. Some studies theorise that as a right brain dominant person, you may excel in visual, spatial and intuitive processes.
However, these theories are debatable and leave much to be said about the small percentage of people who are ambidextrous.
Part 3
Emotions and Systems
This task looked at whether you prefer to empathise or systemise.
Empathising
Your empathy score is: 14 out of 20
Average score for men: 7.9 out of 20
Average score for women: 10.6 out of 20
What does your result suggest?
Empathisers are better at accurately judging other people's emotions and responding appropriately. If you scored 15 and above, you are very empathic and would be an ideal person to comfort people in a time of crisis. Women in general are better at empathising.
Systemising
Your systemising score is: 5 out of 20
Average score for men: 12.5 out of 20
Average score for women: 8.0 out of 20
What does your result suggest?
Systemisers prefer to investigate how systems work. A system can be a road map, flat pack furniture, or a mathematical equation – anything that follows a set of rules. A score of 15 and above suggests you're good at analysing or building systems. Men in general are better at systemising.
Eyes
This task tested your ability to judge people's emotions.
Your score: 4 out of 10
Average score for men: 6.6 out of 10
Average score for women: 6.6 out of 10
What does your result suggest?
If you scored 0 - 3: Do you think you're good at judging how another person is feeling? Your score suggests this doesn't come to you quite so naturally.
If you scored 4 - 6: Your result suggests you have a balanced female-male brain and find it neither easy nor difficult to judge people's emotions.
If you scored 7 - 10: Your result suggests you are a good empathiser, sensitive to other people's emotions. Women generally fall into this category.
Part 4
Fingers
We asked you to measure your ring and index fingers. Your ratios came to:
Right Hand: 0.97
Left Hand: 1.06
Average ratio for men: 0.982
Average ratio for women: 0.991
It's thought that your ratio is governed by the amount of testosterone you were exposed to in your mother's womb. The ratio of the length of your index finger to the length of your ring finger is set for life by as early as three months after conception. Even during puberty, when we experience intensive hormonal changes, the ratio stays the same.
Men generally have a ring finger that is longer than their index finger, which gives them a lower ratio than women, whose ring and index fingers are usually of equal length.
Studies have found that men and women with lots of brothers generally have more masculine finger ratios.
Part 5
Faces
This task looked at how you rate the attractiveness of a series of faces. The images you looked at were digitally altered to create slight differences in masculinity.
Your choices suggest you prefer more masculine faces.
Highly masculinised male faces possess more extreme testosterone markers such as a long, broad and lower jaw, as well as more pronounced brow ridges and cheekbones.
Interestingly, women's preferences are said to vary across the menstrual phase. A more masculine face is preferred during the 9 days prior to ovulation, when conception is most likely.
A typical 'attractive' female face possesses features such as a shorter, narrower, lower jaw, fuller lips and larger eyes than an average face.
Part 6
3D shapes
This task tested your ability to mentally rotate 3D shapes.
Your score: 7 out of 12
Average score for men: 8.2 out of 12
Average score for women: 7.1 out of 12
What does your result suggest?
If you scored 0 - 6: Do you find yourself having to physically rotate a map to point in the direction in which you're travelling? This might explain why you scored in the lower range in the 3D shapes test. Twice as many women as men score in this category. Previous studies suggest that those with a female-type brain or with an arts background fall into this range.
If you scored 7 - 9: In past studies, 50 per cent of the people who scored in this range were women and 50 per cent were men.
If you scored 10 - 12: Are you an engineer or do you have a science background? People with these skills tend to score in this range. Past studies have concluded that people in this range have a more male brain.
Nearly a third of men who took this test got full marks, whereas less than 10 per cent of women managed the same.
Words
This task looked at your verbal fluency.
Your score: you associated 8 word(s) with grey and you named 20 word(s) that mean happy. We are assuming that all the words you entered are correct.
Average score for men: 11.4 words total
Average score for women: 12.4 words total
What does your result suggest?
If you produced 1 - 5 words: You are more of the strong, silent type with a male brain. You probably find it easier to express yourself in non-verbal ways, preferring action rather than words.
If you produced 6 - 10 words: Most people in this range have a female-type brain.
Women are said to use both sides of the brain when doing verbal tasks while men mainly use their left side. Studies have shown that girls develop vocabulary faster than boys. This difference in brain power is caused by levels of pre-natal testosterone.
Ultimatum
This task asked you how you would divide money.
If you had to split £50 with someone, you said you would demand £25
So far on the Sex ID test, men have demanded 51.6% (£25.80) of the pot and women have demanded 51.0% (£25.50), on average.
What does your response suggest?
Sex differences are small in this task. Demanding less than 60% of the pot (ie £30) is more typically female. Demanding more than 65% of the pot (ie £32.50) is more typically male.
Scientists believe that people with lower testosterone levels tend to take fewer risks so they are probably more willing to keep less for themselves. Those with higher testosterone levels tend to drive a harder bargain and are less compromising.
Men's testosterone levels fluctuate over the seasons and are at their lowest levels during the springtime. This is said to influence their bargaining power.
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Monday, 21 March 2011
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Friday, 18 March 2011
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Monday, 14 March 2011
Sunday, 13 March 2011
first of all, i just want to say pray for japan. In my life, I've really had a thing for japan, their music, dramas and also their food yum. So japan has always been close to my heart, probably the closest after my home country. I don't even know what to say, because nothing seems to be able to express my concern & sorry.
yesterday i went to a masquerade, it was pretty good. (: gna dot point it.
- arrived 15 minutes late, but not many people were there yet, so just chilled outside (8
- got my name marked off, and went inside to look at what the hall looked like.
- came back outside, because noone was dancing, and it was really stuff in there.
- okay, basically there was heaps of going outside and dancing on the dancefloor, because it was really stuffy inside.
- went on a walk with tony, to sit at a bus stop coz noone was doing anything.
- mingled with vivian&karen&alanna&cici and met an epic person (:
- the lights were pretty epic, note - don't look at the dj, coz it kills your eyes.
- did heaps and heaps of jumping, coz I didn't exactly know how to dance.
- it was really sweaty, but it was fun and my hair was falling out of place.
- these guys were like grinding on me and my friends, and it was sooo weird, so we just ran off, LOL.
- tried to get vivian & karen and cyron to dance but noone wanted to dance -.- LAME.
- just saying, you guys missed out.
- took off my shoes and ditched my clutch coz it was sucha hassle so just danced bare foot (:
- chyeah, lots of things happened, alanna&cici& I went into the bathroom to like chill for a bit coz it was sooo hot.
- tony asked me to dance :L LOL so yeah i was like wooo foh sure, i mean there was nothing better to do :L
- oh there was one time where we just went outside and like idk, what happened to the security, but it seemed like, they just went inside so like there were chicks as security guards which were kinda fail, coz I think a few gate crashers just came in. :/
- things started to get out of control, the guys started drinking and smoking and shizz.
- well for alcoholics they were pretty well behaved, i mean its not like they did anything that bad :/
- but then things started to go missing . :/ like my friend's phone.
- but then I think they found everything in the end.
- so in the end, the party got shut down like 2 hours earlier than expected.
- but luckily my dad was planning to pick me up at 11, so I only had to wait like 50 minutes, and it was pretty awesome, coz alanna&cici&vivian&karen&iana and I were just singing like a choir 8) and we sang all these songs like grenade, firework and all these classics like from the sound of music.
- yeah so the clock was approaching 11, and I didn't really wanna go, coz I was having fun, even though we had to make our own music.
- and at about 10 to 11, people in the hall started running outside and I didn't know what was happening, but apparently like a fight was going on, and these guys were hitting each other with a metal sheet :/
- and whilst I was like looking outside, I realised my dad was on the other side of the road in the car, and I started freaking out, and so I went back inside and called him, and he told me there was fight outside.
- when I came back out, he was standing like where the fight was and I was like oh shit. T_T gna be in so much shit when I get home. :S so now i'm not allowed to go to parties where there are gna be guys -.-
- so yeah, then I had to go home, but overall it was a pretty good night (: minus the ending part.
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Saturday, 5 March 2011
LENT2011
Well I decided to create this post, after reading my bffl, alanna's lent post. :L Mmmkaes, well this year I'm going to participate in lent once again (: so hopefully it'll be good. I'm not Christian or whatever, I just use lent as an excuse to give up something (: teehee. Alright, well this year, I'll be giving up my internet social life (8 CHYEAH. Well, last year I did no msn for 46 days, it wasn't actually that bad. I'm actually quite proud of myself *pats self on back* :D Umm, well last year, I used sundays to go on msn, because I read it on some website that the sundays don't count. But this year, I kinda wanna go all out, and not use it on sundays either. I've already deactivated my fb since the start of the school term, and I did no msn last year, so this should be interesting. So, if you want to contact me, you can text me; or email me, or you can tagboard me, or tumblr ask me 8) see, its not that bad. I guess that means I should be using my blog more often during these 46 days, because this is the only way you'll know whats happening with my life if you don't see me at school. Lent starts on 9th of march, if you decide to join me. And yes, I'll be living through hell with my bffl alanna (: and that's about all for today, thought I might do a life blog because I haven't done one in a while. And double stars for a post that is more than 3 sentences (: