# what are you, really? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462 "2005-11-10T19:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/1 "2005-11-10T19:50:27Z")
[take this test](http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/index_cookie.shtml) and see if you really are male or female (I scored smack dab in the middle) ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/2 "2005-11-10T20:10:18Z")
I am spot on the average for men taking the test. I’m a guy. ALL guy. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/3 "2005-11-10T20:11:26Z")
It took forever! I am overwhelmingly female though, with my number around 50 on the female side. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/4 "2005-11-10T20:12:23Z")
I’m a chick. I scored more female than male, but I got bored around part four and started clicking randomly and cheating (for example, during the word association part, I just strung random letters together seperated by commas, even resorting to “d, d, d, d, d, d” at the end; I associated 17 words with a color and 49 with an emotion, which certainly skewed the results a bit). ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/5 "2005-11-10T20:22:15Z")
I scored on the 50th percentile of the female side, which was considered average for women who’ve taken this survey. On some of the tasks(Angles esp.), I scored closer to the male average than the female average, but I think it got balanced out by “spot the difference”(57% right), “recognize the emotion in the eyes” one (9 of 10 right) and the Words/synonyms part (21 words total). It was a fun test. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/6 "2005-11-10T20:26:36Z")
Wow. I managed to get between 0 and 50 on the _female_ side. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/7 "2005-11-10T20:27:22Z")
I liked this test! I scored around 25% female. I’m a designer though, so the pick-the-angle thing, and the rotate-the-object part were a little easier for me than most females, I would guess. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/8 "2005-11-10T20:27:33Z")
Apparently I’m good at mentally manipulating 3D objects. Your score: 12 out of 12 Average score for men: 8.2 out of 12 Average score for women: 7.1 out of 12 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/9 "2005-11-10T20:37:26Z")
I got a 25 on the male side, so while I am a man, I have female tendancies. That came from the ‘spot the difference’ game, where I got all of them right and none wrong, as well as the eyes, i got all but one right. I also got all of the 3D shapes right, so praise me as your…umm…internally visualizing god, or something. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/10 "2005-11-10T20:41:31Z")
I got about 25% female. Sounds about right. Interestingly, I got a 10/10 on identifying the expressions/moods. This just after I said I was horrible at empathizing with people… ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/11 "2005-11-10T20:41:41Z")
I got right smack in the middle. Maybe I’m not as much of a girly-girl as I’ve always thought. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/12 "2005-11-10T20:41:54Z")
Smack in the middle here. Right on “0”. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/13 "2005-11-10T20:47:22Z")
Man. Freakishly high on the spacial, verbal and correctly analyzing facial expressions scale. Booyah. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/14 "2005-11-10T20:56:31Z")
I got: 16 of 20 86% left 7 of 20 8 of 20 7 of 10 Right Hand: 1.01 Left Hand: 0.97 masculine faces 9 of 12 25 words total and I demanded 25 pounds I ended up Female 50. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/15 "2005-11-10T20:59:48Z")
I scored right in the middle. Apparently, my brain is neither male nor female. I scored well on all the “physical” stuff that males tend to do better, but I also did very well on the identifying eyes and moods thing. I think a large vocabulary might have helped the rating, too. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/16 "2005-11-10T21:07:23Z")
Spot on 50 avg male. arr arr arr! ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/17 "2005-11-10T21:13:33Z")
Right in the middle. I’m neutral… Hey, I’m Switzerland! ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/18 "2005-11-10T21:18:05Z")
Let’s hear it for the asexuals!!! another “0” here. ---
**Author:** ![Foaming\_Cleanser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Foaming\_Cleanser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foaming_Cleanser)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/19 "2005-11-10T21:18:36Z")
The eye illustrations didn’t show up, only the labels. Firefox 1.0.7, Mac OS X, cookies, JavaScript, images on. I saved the page and can go back to it, but whenever something like this happens, the page usually is Microsoft/Active-X-IE-bozo-programmer-centric. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462/20 "2005-11-10T21:32:15Z")
I’m male, but I got 25% female. Interesting. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-really/330462.md?page=2)