title: Measuring empathizing and systemizing with a large US sample.
abstract: A large number of people completed one of two versions of the empathizing quotient (EQ) and systemizing quotient (SQ). One version had the negatively phrased items all re-worded. These re-worded items were answered more rapidly than the original items, and for the SQ produced a more reliable scale. Subjects gave self-assessments of empathizing and systemizing, and these were moderately correlated, r ≈ .6, with their respective quotients. Females had on average higher empathizing scores and males had on average higher systemizing scores. If a female-male pair was chosen at random, the female would have the higher empathizing score about two-thirds of the time, and the males would have the higher systemizing score about two-thirds of the time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America. dwright@fiu.edu
authors.forename: Daniel B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Elin M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Skagerberg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001290:Attitude; D004644:Emotions; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States