A recent study by Pinkham et al (2015) compared the ER40 to six other tests of social cognition: Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ), Bell Lysaker Emotion Recognition Task (BLERT), Relationships Across Domains (RAD), Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task (Eyes), The Awareness of Social Inferences Test (TASIT), Hinting Task, and Trustworthiness Task. Tests were evaluated on test-retest reliability, utility as a repeated measure, relationship to functional outcome, practicality and tolerability, sensitivity to group differences, and internal consistency. While the ER40 was ranked overall below BLERT and Hinting, it is notable that only its overall accuracy score was used. Furthermore, issues such as practicality and tolerability have not been considered in the context of international genomic studies that make language-mediated tests like Hinting impractical.
