Empathy Quotient

[I_am_not_mafia]

Wow, that's high.

I was thinking that my score was kind of low (38) but I am seeing people here with much lower scores who never struck me as lacking empathy.

I would be interested to know what the average is though. It occurred to me that you can't assume that 40 is the average.

I felt a lot of those questions were about intuition rather than empathy. Or maybe they are kind of the same thing? I've always felt like I was really in tune with other people's feelings and seeing things through their perspective. I imagine that's where the 76 came from.

I used to think of myself as having a lot of empathy but when I did the test I was comparing myself to how I imagined other people would manage. I always expect to do badly when compared with someone else.