Below is a list of statements. Please read each statement very carefully and rate how strongly you agree or disagree with it. There are no right or wrong answers, or trick questions.
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About this screener — evidence, source
Ten items from the adult Empathy Quotient, each scoring 0–2, giving a total of 0–20 where higher means more self-reported empathy. Used in a study of over 670,000 people; it describes where someone sits relative to population norms and has no clinical cut-off.
Evidence · validated
In 671,606 adults aged 16–89 (Greenberg et al., 2018), mean EQ-10 scores were 8.87 (SD 4.75) in men and 10.79 (4.84) in women without autism, versus 6.92 (4.71) and 8.26 (5.03) in men and women reporting an autism diagnosis (case–control Cohen’s d 0.41–0.51). Groups overlap substantially and there is no validated cut-off, so the total is reported without bands.
Source & licence
Greenberg DM, Warrier V, Allison C, Baron-Cohen S. Testing the Empathizing–Systemizing theory of sex differences and the Extreme Male Brain theory of autism in half a million people. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2018;115(48):12152–12157. doi:10.1073/pnas.1811032115
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