Brain sex
The Sex ID test on the BBC website is 'a series of visual challenges and questions used by psychologists'.
The test warns that the overall performance can be affected by other factors, like age and intelligence. And most likely, in my case at least, being a non-native English speaker.
The results indicate that I fall exactly half-way in the male-female brain continuum, and so far, well, d'oh - it makes sense because I am gay.
What surprised me is the breakdown of some of the results:
- Spatial tasks: average, typical female
- I empathise a lot, and systemise very little: very woman
- Finger length ratio: closer to woman
- Attractiveness of faces: like a woman at her most fertile
- 3D shapes: more male than most males, with a typical engineer- or science background-score
- Verbal fluency: poor, like a strong, silent type with a male brain (or, might I add, a non-English native speaker)
- Ultimatum: more demanding, taking risks, closer to male
Thank goodness the test did not include orienteering, the area in which I seem to concentrate the worst of both sexes (I read maps as badly as a female, and refuse to ask/listen for directions like the most stubborn of males).