I created an online version of a standardised measure of Davis' interpersonal reactivity index questionairre. The questionairre determines your interpersonal reactivity index (0-112), which is the most commonly used scale of empathy by academia. Within the scale are subscales for fantasy, empathic concern, perspective taking and personal distress (each 0-28)

If you find this subject interesting, please take the test below.

The questionairre outputs and collates all results publicly (though you are by default anonymous and do not need to identify yourself in the same way you do on reddit if you dont want to (though please do for discussion purposes!).

The results also include averages by pill alignment EDIT: AND NOW GENDER, which is what I think will be most interesting.

Questionairre (28 questions): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1k849TEeP8tZPhxFBzUQT6TMHml0yT4P_7QCsgS4XxmE/viewform

Results (public): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-yfQciv9qBqEPfTeBLn494XAodx3yTY8jRwCososIpQ/pubhtml

Details/discussion of Davis' Interpersonal Reactivity Index as a measure of empathy:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empathy/measuring.html

http://fetzer.org/sites/default/files/images/stories/pdf/selfmeasures/EMPATHY-InterpersonalReactivityIndex.pdf

Interpretting the results:

http://www.anemonecerridwen.net/iridescr.php

Advanced intrepretting the results (quite hardcore):

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/jpa/17/1/36/

http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/2698/

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1997-05622-003

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/sbp/sbp/2004/00000032/00000004/art00005

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490167/

EDIT:

Added Gender and ability to edit old responses. If you responded without giving gender and can be bothered, please go back in and submit a gender.

EDIT2:

UPDATE: Now fully automated! I can go home and sleep

EDIT3:

This has worked out suprisingly well with a large number of responses. IF anyone has any other survey ideas I'd be happy to set up the necessary forms/sheets, it was fun.