Good attention deficit disorder test?

Factual Questions
1

Does anyone know a good online test for ADD?

Thanks.

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Find an online copy of the DSM IV. That would be better then online test, it’s what a doctor would use.
http://home.att.net/~sebloom/ADD/DSMIV.html

3

Oh I saw one the other day. Lemme just go find it…

What did you want, again?

4

The problem with the DSM IV criteria is that they’re a) not conclusive, and b) is a laundry list that could, with a sufficienty flexible mindset, apply to pretty much anybody.

No online test is really going to give you a good measure of whether you have ADD/ADHD or not. Either you exhibit some of the symptoms to a point that it interferes with your ability to complete tasks–in which case you should go to a professional diagnostician who can perform the battery of tests necessary to make a credible assessment of whether you have some kind of attentional problem–or you don’t (or at least it’s not a serious problem for you.) Would you take an online test for mononucleosis, or submit to an e-mail biopsy for cancer?

[thread=329271]Here[/thread]'s an old thread on the topic of ADD. I recommend reading Hallowell’s Driven To Distraction as a good introductory book on the topic for the layperson.

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