Saturday, 30 January 2010

This is mad cool!

I love my psychology classes! On Thursday, Frances played a video for us. It was a BBC video on sex survey. It was so interesting that I told myself I had to try out the survey at home! Btw, Sex as in Male/Female. Not as in the erm, act. HAHA.

Basically the test was split into 6 parts. Here are my brief results:

Part 1:

Angles


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.

Your score: 16 out of 20
Average score for men: 15.1 out of 20
Average score for women: 13.3 out of 20

If you scored 13 - 17: You found this test neither hard nor easy. This suggests your brain has male and female traits when it comes to spatial ability.

Okay, I think it's going be v tedious for me to copy and paste everything here. But just some interesting stuff which I think are rather accurate!

Part 5:

Faces


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.

Your choices suggest you prefer more masculine faces. (SO TRUE LOR!)

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. (YES YES YES!)

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. (!!!)

A typical 'attractive' female face possesses features such as a shorter, narrower, lower jaw, fuller lips and larger eyes than an average face.


Another interesting thing i wanna HAO LIAN.

Part 6:

3D shapes

This task tested your ability to mentally rotate 3D shapes.

Your score: 9 out of 12 (!)
Average score for men: 8.2 out of 12
Average score for women: 7.1 out of 12

What does your result suggest?

If 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.

If you scored 7 - 9: In past studies, 50 per cent of the people who scored in this range were women and 50 per cent were men.

If you scored 10 - 12: 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.

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.


Muahaha, this is so interesting! Gonna see if there are more tests to take! I just saw a test to see if i can identify a fake smile! Freaking cool!

2 comments:

jayson said...

and where do we take the test?

Po Zhu, 宝珠! said...

oops.. ya hor..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml

Here u go! :p