Table 2.
AQ10: scale properties
| r | DA % |
SA % |
SD % |
DD % |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I often notice small sounds when others do not | − 0.15 | 20 | 36 | 21 | 23 |
| I usually concentrate more on the whole picture, rather than the small details* | 0.24 | 39 | 43 | 17 | 2 |
| I find it easy to do more than one thing at once* | 0.32 | 25 | 33 | 30 | 12 |
| If there is an interruption, I can switch back to what I was doing very quickly* | 0.39 | 30 | 43 | 25 | 2 |
| I find it easy to ‘read between the lines’ when someone is talking to me* | 0.51 | 28 | 51 | 18 | 3 |
| I know how to tell if someone listening to me is getting bored* | 0.41 | 40 | 53 | 6 | 1 |
| When I’m reading a story I find it difficult to work out the characters’ intentions | 0.16 | 3 | 28 | 43 | 26 |
| I like to collect information about categories of things (e.g. types of car, types of bird, types of train, types of plant etc.) | 0.12 | 8 | 24 | 29 | 39 |
| I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face* | 0.31 | 12 | 47 | 35 | 6 |
| I find it difficult to work out people’s intentions | 0.30 | 4 | 27 | 57 | 12 |
Note: r = correlation between item and sum of other nine items
DA = Definitely Agree; SA = Slightly Agree; SD = Slightly Disagree; DD = Definitely Disagree
* = item reverse coded to calculate r
N = 220