For my experiment, I chose to test my feelings for the other people around me, or empathy for short. To me, my first thought was that I'm a nice person who cares about others so I should score above average easily, well to my suprise when you think you know yourself you realize you actually might just suprise yourself. This test to me seemed to be quite simple and easy to understand and it made me realize how hard it is to acutally think and fully understand what each question was asking and how to answer according to which option best fit me. The thing that probably helped me most while taking this quiz was the choices it gave me for each question: defintely agree, slightly agree, slightly disagree, and defintely disagree. Those few choices basically saved my life because it was simply do I agree or disagree, and then I had to dig deep inside myself and decide do I feel strongly towards agreeing or disagreeing or do I just kinda agree or disagree. The easiest questions for me were "I live life for today rather than the future" (defintely agree), and "Seeing people cry doesn't really upset me" (defintely disagree) both of these questions to me seemed to be quite important and I felt strongly about both topics life and feelings for others. Some of the questions I found to be difficult to understand were "I find it difficult to explain to others things that I understand easily, when they don't understand it first time" (slightly agree) also, "When I was a child, I enjoyed cutting up worms to see what would happen" (defintely disagree), to me this question was confusing because it was random and I couldn't quite understand how it reffered to empathy. Lastly, the difficult questions that I had to put lots of time and thought into answering were "People often tell me that I went too far in driving my point home in a discussion (slightly agree), this question brought me to thinking of how much thought I put into a conversation before actually speaking. Another difficult question was "When I talk to people, I tend to talk about their experiences rather than my own" (slightly disagree) I chose slightly disagree mainly because whenever I talk to friends I always talk about my problems and try to understand and listen to my friends.
As I went through each and every question it brought me to think about every little detail I put into a conversation with my friends and do I treat them with enough understanding and feeling. Before clicking the "Get Answers" button at the end of the test I quickly went over each question throughly to make sure I trusted my first answer perfectly which of course I didnt. Then after viewing the results I realized just how disappointing the results to a quiz can be. Then millions of questions rushed through my mind am I a terrible person? does this mean that I'm a bad friend? should I pay for attention to everyone around me? The questions running through my two parted brain were endless it seemed like I could feel a headache coming even though it's just a test, it doesn't mean anything. That turned out to be an understatement this test meant the world to me and I couldn't believe how my results turned out, but after dissecting every little bit of spirit I had left within me I took the courage to move on. I believe that this test took a toll on my life and that it brought a new perspective to my mind and how i'll react around others and how i'll treat others as well as myself.
Quiz results:
http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/EmpathyQuotient/EmpathyQuotient.aspx
Pictures :)
| me taking the quiz |
| the quiz! |
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