Patent ID: 7238025

Claim:
A product embodied on a computer-readable medium for determining empathy, comprising: (a) means for presenting a plurality of questions to a first participant and wherein said first participant is required to provide a first set of answers to at least some of the plurality of questions and wherein said first set of answers represent said first participant's views and wherein said first participant is also required to provide a second set of answers to said at least some of the plurality of questions attempting to anticipate how a second participant will answer each of said at least some of the plurality of questions; (b) means for presenting said plurality of questions to said second participant and wherein said second participant is required to provide a third set of answers to said at least some of the plurality of questions and wherein said third set of answers represent said second participant's views and wherein said second participant is also required to provide a fourth set of answers to said at least some of the plurality of questions attempting to anticipate how said first participant will answer each question; (c) means for recording said first set of answers, said second set of answers, said third set of answers, and said fourth set of answers; (d) means for mathematically comparing at least two answers either from said first set of answers to said fourth set of answers or from said second set of answers to said third set of answers sufficient to produce a numerical result that is representative of an average difference in the absolute value between said at least two answers, and wherein said average difference includes an empathy index for said topic; and (e) means for providing said empathy index to said first participant and to said second participant.