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 * The scale below is an indication of where you fall in the male-female brain continuum. The results are based on the angles, spot the difference, 3D shapes and words tasks.

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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. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Do our cave dwelling ancestors offer us any clues about why men and women score differently on this task? [|**__Find out more__**]<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">. || [|**__Find out more__**]<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> about our spatial abilities. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.32px;"> Angles ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Your score: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 16 out of 20 **Average score for men:** 15.1 out of 20 **Average score for women:** 13.3 out of 20
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">What does your result suggest? **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> **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.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">If you scored 13 - 17: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> You found this test neither hard nor easy. This suggests your brain has male and female traits when it comes to spatial ability.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">If you scored 18 - 20: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.32px;"> Spot the difference ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">This task tested your ability to identify which objects changed position. You lost points, if you incorrectly identified objects.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Your score: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 50% **Average score for men:** 39% **Average score for women:** 46%
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">What does your score suggest? **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> **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.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">If you scored between 34 - 66%: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> You may have a balanced female-male brain.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">If you scored between 67 - 100%: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.


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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">However, these theories are debatable and leave much to be said about the small percentage of people who are ambidextrous. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Find out why right-brained people may be [|**__better fighters and artists__**]<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.32px;"> Hands ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">You said your **left** thumb was on top when you clasped your hands together.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Right thumb on top: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Left thumb on top: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.


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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> **Systemising** **Your systemising score is:** 2 out of 20 **Average score for men:** 12.5 out of 20 **Average score for women:** 8.0 out of 20 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Scientists are keen to learn more about people who score high or low on both tests. They want to find out whether or not empathising and systemising are linked. Is a possible to make yourself more empathic? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Some scientists claim that our empathy and systemising abilities can be traced all the way back to prehistoric times. [|**__Find out more.__**] ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.32px;"> Emotions and Systems ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">This task looked at whether you prefer to empathise or systemise.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Empathising **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> **Your empathy score is:** 6 out of 20 **Average score for men:** 7.9 out of 20 **Average score for women:** 10.6 out of 20
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">What does your result suggest? **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">What does your result suggest? **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Professor Baron-Cohen at the University of Cambridge says that people usually perform better than they expect to on this test. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Men often think a person's eyes are sending signals of desire when that's not the case at all. [|**__Find out more.__**] ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.32px;"> Eyes ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">This task tested your ability to judge people's emotions.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Your score: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 7 out of 10 **Average score for men:** 6.6 out of 10 **Average score for women:** 6.6 out of 10
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">What does your result suggest? **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.


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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Studies have found that men and women with lots of brothers generally have more masculine finger ratios. [|**__Find out__**]<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> what other things scientists think our ratios may tell us. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.32px;"> Fingers ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">We asked you to measure your ring and index fingers. Your ratios came to:
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Right Hand: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 1.05 **Left Hand:** 1.06 **Average ratio for men:** 0.982 **Average ratio for women:** 0.991


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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">A typical 'attractive' female face possesses features such as a shorter, narrower, lower jaw, fuller lips and larger eyes than an average face. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Are you surprised at what researchers think they can learn from your answers? [|**__Find out more__**]<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.32px;"> Faces ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Your choices suggest you prefer more masculine faces. **


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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Nearly a third of men who took this test got full marks, whereas less than 10 per cent of women managed the same. [|**__Find out why__**]<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.32px;"> 3D shapes ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">This task tested your ability to mentally rotate 3D shapes.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Your score: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">9 out of 12 **Average score for men:** 8.2 out of 12 **Average score for women:** 7.1 out of 12
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">What does your result suggest? **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> I**f 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.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">If you scored 7 - 9: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">In past studies, 50 per cent of the people who scored in this range were women and 50 per cent were men.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">If you scored 10 - 12: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">If you produced 6 - 10 words: Most people in this range have a female-type brain. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. [|**__Find out more__**]<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.32px;"> Words ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">This task looked at your verbal fluency.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Your score: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">you associated 6 word(s) with grey and you named 6 word(s) that mean happy. We are assuming that all the words you entered are correct.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">Average score for men: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 11.4 words total **Average score for women:** 12.4 words total
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">What does your result suggest? **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">If you had to split £50 with someone, you said you would demand £25 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">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. [|**__Find out more__**]<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> about the role of testosterone. ||
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 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">This task asked you how you would divide money.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;">What does your response suggest? **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.33px;"> 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.

Part 3: I think this is pretty accurate, I feel like I think mentally like a female and a male. Many things that I do I look at both perspectives of it. This test did teach me that women typically can read a face better than a man could and I guess I never really thought about that. Something new I learned is that it is normal for people with a science background to have a good skill of being able to rotate 3d shapes; I am going to school for nursing and got the score of that range. It did confirm some things that I did already know, well at least thought I knew but now it is confirmed. This test also did confirm and challenge some things about the other gender, things I did know and didn’t know. Some things about males I didn’t know are that they usually have a longer ring finger than index finger. Also men and women with a lot of brothers tend to have more masculine fingers. Part 4: In the Slate article I think casual extrapolation might be a problem for this assessment because it talks about how it was harder for a woman to teach physic and that guys taught it better, but there is not telling who teaching what better because everyone has their own way of teaching. Another would be self-fulfillment, in the article it states that women perform worse at mental rotation when they are told men are better at it this could be a problem that could affect it.