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Simon Baron-Cohen's recent book The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain proposes that "The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems."

The book contains a couple of tests that calculate your "empathy quotient" and your "systemizing quotient". There is also a test that measures your "autism quotient", and a fascinating test that measures how good you are at discerning someone's mood from their eyes.

Here are online versions of the tests:

• Systemizing quotient test
• Empathy quotient test
• Autism Spectrum quotient test
  Mind in the eyes test

Your score for the empathy test : 46

33 - 52 = average (most women score about 47 and most men score about 42