Empathy quotient

UK SPD wrote:

zeno wrote:Logic doesn't count, even if it may work well enough for you. If you apply logic and conscious thought when emotion and gut feeling is normally expected, your score is supposed to be lower by definition.

But, logically, how does one tell if a response is applying "logic and conscious thought" rather than "emotion and gut feeling"? Since my emotional response may be your logical one.

You can do something because it's logical sure, but there may not be logic related to empathy at all (other than merely reacting due to feeling of past events. Not sure if that's always logic though.) Say a person you barely know says something about a dark time in their life, and it reminds you of a bad time in yours. If you tell them about your time, and perhaps try to make things easier for them with examples to make sure there's a chance they won't do the same mistakes you did...that'd be closer to empathy without it necessarily being logic. Your heart-strings got tugged, and you acted.

Technically you don't have to even act towards the person for empathy to happen. It's merely understanding how the other person feels and how you feel in regards to it.

If we're talking logic though, someone may seem to respond illogically to something when really it reminds them of something that nobody around knows about (think like an inside joke, but it could be laughter/crying/anger/surprise/whatever).

I think there's a bit of confusion between emotional intelligence and empathy too.

UK SPD wrote:But, logically, how does one tell if a response is applying "logic and conscious thought" rather than "emotion and gut feeling"? Since my emotional response may be your logical one.

It means that the outcome doesn't matter for what they're trying to measure, just the mechanism. If there's reasoning involved, then it's not what they're calling "empathy".

18 out of 80

I scored 27/80 and I thought I was being generous with my answers.

Maybe if I kept up with the current trends and fashions I would have more empathy.

20 out of 80.

18/80

Holodeck wrote:Technically you don't have to even act towards the person for empathy to happen. It's merely understanding how the other person feels and how you feel in regards to it.

Not really, you also need to have an appropriate response, otherwise it is worthless. You are also required to care, which is pretty abusive for many reasons, and that is where psychology shows it true totalitarian colors. Worst yet, if they don't care, they will assume that you don't, because they are empaths, and they can read minds, and therefore they become justified in doing whatever they want. That is how they ended up killing so many people. But today, they are ethically forced to simply condemn people to eternal damnation, and either drug them or isolate them, all the while shaming others for said isolation, or the vixtim itself. As long as they it is not their own feelings they have to deal with, they are good to go in their toxic behavior.

72. I think I'm probably more in the 60s, though. 72 seems a bit high.

I got a 37/80

-- Sun Jul 30, 2017 1:31 pm --

I got a 37/80

4/80, but it seems a bit too low.

I have considered the possibility that I had Asperger's, but realised that I only met the criteria on the 'not understanding social situation' part and the part the overlaps with SPD. The rest I don't really meet.

I think the score is low because I can read strong emotions (I only really have trouble with mixed emotions and emotions caused by misinterpretations), but other people's thoughts just don't affect me. If I try, I can understand a lot more emotions, but I don't see the point.