This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
9. I like to collect information about categories of things.
- Definitely Agree
- Slightly Agree
- Slightly Disagree
- Definitely Disagree
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I would guess it means that you have a interest in a category of something. You don’t like fish, but you are interested in lobe-finned fish.
Okay, if I was going to learn about fish, it might go something like “I mentioned to someone about how spawning salmon return to their place of birth. But is that actually true?” *Learns about salmon life-cycle. *Learns about biological study of animal migration. *Learns about migration in different animals. *Learns about how understanding has developed over time. *Learns how it influenced ideas on geoscience, commerce, anthropology
It’s like I’m on a random walk through the tree of knowledge, rather than cataloguing a few select branches.
I do like how the class of lobe-finned fish can be interpreted to include human beings. That just tickles me.
Yup i do this as well. i want to know the knowledge and the knowledge about the knowledge etc. Probably just to make absolutely sure it’s correct.