I did the BBC quiz on brain sex. I got the exact same score as the average male. Boring.

I find it extremely difficult to derive a person’s mood or sentiment from a picture of only the eyes. (I scored 6 out of 10 with difficulty.) Second most difficult was telling which objects had been moved compared to the first picture (score :57%).

Apparently, I prefer slightly more masculine faces. Most of the time I could not even tell the difference between the pair of faces. Sometimes I had the feeling I would be more at ease with one of them and more afraid we wouldn’t have anything to talk about, because of a lack of common interests with the other. I think that is exactly what they were testing. If I would be on a date with a girl that would be exclusively interested in ‘girly’ stuff that didn’t interest me (like fashion), the date would fail, no matter how pretty she might be.

Subconciously, I probably link expectations about somebody’s interests and personality to she size of their jaw and cheekbones. Weird.

The test where you had to find as many synonyms as you could was not so difficult, because I remembered from your description that they assume that every word you enter is correct. I could have obtained an astronomic score by typing fantasy words as fast as I could, but I decided not to cheat.

I had mentioned it twice before.
With a little imagination, I could claim I stand in a tradition, because my father’s father, grandfather, and two brothers had a bakery. (None of them were female however).

For them it meant getting up extremely early in the morning, but I have a baking machine with a timer. The real reason to purchase a baking machine was, that the stores in my town often didn’t have any bread left in the afternoon, when I used to go shopping).

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Hey, go figure! I wonder what I’ve been tweeting lately that gave it that impression ;)

I browsed your scores and I didn’t find any score that really surprized me. Apparently, the impression that I got from your blog and twitter posts aligns with the test results — apart from the things I had no idea of, like the length of your ring and index fingers.

On my bookshelve, I’ve got the translation of “Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps”, a popular book by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease about the same subject. They sometimes confuse scientific explanation with pseudo-scientific speculation, but it is still a fun read.
It taught me, for example, that I should not assume that everybody automatically understands you can’t follow a serious conversation if the tv is on, because most women can do that with ease. So, the tv is not the problem, the problem is the assumptions we have about other peoples abilities being the same as our own.
If you say I really didn’t need to read a book to come to that conclusion, you are right.

Right there, baby!

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