Is Your Brain Male or Female?

The Guardian has two tests which allows you to measure the empathising quotient and systemizing quotient of your brain. This is based on Simon Baron-Cohen’s empathising-systemising (E-S) theory.

Baron-Cohen, the Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, states that women’s brains are wired more for empathy and men’s brains are wired more for trying to find rules to explain why people act the way they do.

You need the Macromedia Flash Player (version 5) in order to take the two interactive tests on the bottom of the page. People who score high for empathising and systemising are said to have “balanced” brains.

Take the interactive empathy quotient test.
Take the interactive systemising quotient test.