A spectrum is usually drawn similar to the one on the left. But the point of a spectrum is that its not “where on the spectrum are you”… It is not one point on the spectrum. As drawn on the left, the spectrum represents possibilities. Normally a spectrum would be drawn to indicate how much of each possibility a thing covers.
Eg, the spectrum for light emission of a lamp might be :
Which means it has a bit varying of every color but is heavily green and orange, but probably looks just like white to the naked eye. Swap “green” for “language” etc and you have a spectrum.
As an engineer, I concur.
Although I would make one adjustment:
It is not one point on the spectrum.
Theoretically, it can be a single point regarding the reference unit (here, the colour). Consider ideal laserlight for example, there you have just one specific wavelength, i.e., a single colour. The magnitude might differ, but it would be a single point in a mathematical sense.
left is casual autism, the right is ranked
Where’s the professional? Box plot?
As far as I know, I am not autistic. I was curious though and took the test. I am just depressed, among other problems. Also in therapy for that. So that is reflected in the results. I also got the message “Your autism symptoms are low”.
Thanks for the link though! I will forward it to an aquaitance of mine who is wondering whether they might be autistic. They already booked an appointment with specialists in order to investigate that.
Similar; I was just curious and took it. Though I have a sibling that is diagnosed autistic, and I’m kinda wanting to be evaluated for it. I suffer from depression + anxiety, hard (and a lot of these questions I was like “that depends on the context”) and I’ve been in a much, much worse mental state than I am currently. So those values make sense, the rest are kind of “huh… interesting”.
Yes, it’s not encouraged for people with other mental disorders to seek autism diagnosis because of how likely those people are to get a false positive for autism.
This is what I usually link people to: https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient
Is that the autism pride flag
from back in 2016 by Theorah
Soft paywall
Try this link: http://archive.today/z6vt9
I would submit that even the second model is not accurate as it is more than 2 dimensions.
ACCURATE
It’s more like a gamut.
This seems more relevant here. https://lemm.ee/post/29731747
Is this supposed to be a link to a post about blankets?
No feelings of attraction in there?