[Melas]

The test is great food for thought though. Even though it's nothing to do with autism, have you ever noticed in your typical university/college, how much more stilted the engineering students (to pick an example from the hard sciences, no slam on engineers) are socially, than say the lit students?

One of the recurring questions in the test dealt with the inability to socialize. Makes one wonder if an autisitic mind isn't really just too much of a good thing. The arithmatic ability is an exageration of the aforementioned engineering student, and so is the social ineptness. I personally find this fascinating.

[patton]

The questions were wrong.

Or, at least, the correct answers were not there.

[xm177e2]

One of the recurring questions in the test dealt with the inability to socialize. Makes one wonder if an autisitic mind isn't really just too much of a good thing.

Being logical, I'd rather study this phenomenon from a disinterested perspective.

But then, if that were the case, I suppose I wouldn't be so rational. And if I wasn't so rational, I might prefer to study the phenomenon from a much closer perspective (for instance, having it).

If I wasn't so rational, I wouldn't find this paradox so amusing...

[patton]

For instance, there was something there about multitasking.

That is an interesting topic - my boss (PhD, Nuclear Physics), is a master of this. I have watched him hold three conversations simultaniously, without missing a beat. He focuses concurrently.

I can do this to a lesser extent, but it annoys me. I have to focus in slices.

And I have friends that attempt to do it, are extremely bad at it, and tend to piss people off. But insist that they are great at it. As far as I can tell, they only catch triggers, and otherwise don't focus at all.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

ROBERT HEINLEIN