Gender

I did a BBC questionnaire that purported to tell me "what sex my brain is." It was a bit long and boring but was quite chuffed to get the result that my brain was equal-parts male and female and that I generally heavily outscored the average when it came to skills-based parts of the test. The main bit that I remember, though, were two sections that were to do with empathy - one on how you might feel after a certain person tells you something or an event, and another on guessing how someone was feeling just by looking at their eyes. Basically, if you got high scores at those, you were empathetic - but I got high scores in the second one and really low scores in the first one, which drew me to the conclusion that I'm not empathetic at all (I've been told and thought this before) but that I am perceptive and able to pick up on what people are feeling. That, however, doesn't mean I sympathise. Basically, I'm smart, but cold.

Later on I read an interesting article about why sports teams do better at home than away - which was also sort of longwinded and boring - but eventually came to the fascinating conclusion that teams playing at home have some sort of in-built 'territorial mechanism' that boosts testosterone levels by up to 70% and gives them an edge over their opponents in terms of aggression and focus and stamina. I'd often wondered that and I guess that's why I googled it. And now I can pretend I know.

Cheers!