Very interesting test. I got a 20 (top score) on empathy and 5 on systematizing. As a trained clinical psychologist AND a musician (classical musicians in particular often score high on empathy and do well on parapsychological tests), the high empathy score is not surprising.

To be fair, it was quite obvious to me which were the empathy and which were the systemizing questions (really, you can't tell that when they ask you if you often think about how a railroad car is constructed??).

I generally reported more disagreement with the systemizing questions, because I know how tests are constructed and they often are biased toward one outcome or another.

Generally speaking, when the "face validity" is obvious (that is, it's very easy for almost anybody to guess what the tentmakers are looking for), the overall usefulness of a test is quite limited,

My experience is almost all men I've interviewed who were lacking in empathy could easily be trained for improvement.

Imagine a world where empathy was taught. Wait, that's the world we have - it's called "social emotional intelligence."

Now, can you guess (this is an obvious one so I won't give you the answer), what is the political orientation of the group that is vehemently against social emotional intelligence programs in schools?

I'll just tell you that the same group has been extensively researched in terms of (quite valid) brain research. turns out that if you have lessened activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (the part of the brain associated with empathy) you have less capacity for empathy; and at its extremes, this leads to antisocial, psychopathic behavior.

I'll add one more interesting of scientific research data about those on opposite ends of the political spectrum - one group is seen as having more empathy, more capacity for social emotional intelligence, and generally exhibits more of what are traditionally known as feminine traits. The other group has the opposite.

the group with the opposite is believed to be responsible at present for 75% of the acts of terrorism in the US.

Some interesting things to ponder.

(when I present these facts, people sometimes cite Jonathan Haidt's research on 6 basic moral orientation, which tends to show one of these groups has greater interest in these factors than the other. I don't have the link on hand, but I spoke at length with an excellent psychological researcher at Cambridge University who said in his view Haidt's research has been thoroughly debunked. )