@skysailor@social.scribblers.club
2026-03-22 18:59 UTC
@oscarjiminy@aus.social *looks up the Empathy Quotient*
*...flabbergasted at how badly its questions relate to what it's supposed to measure*
How does *how often you dream* measure empathy?
Edit: OK correction, apparently 1/3 of the questions are control questions that are not meant to measure empathy.
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@skysailor@social.scribblers.club 2026-03-22 19:10
@oscarjiminy@aus.social Anyway. Wow. Researchers really did take an approach I would paraphrase as: "autistic differences from allistics are inherently bad so let's study what those differences are so we can figure out what to call bad"