First graph is from the Autism Research Institute (though named "Institute for Child Behavior Research" during most of this graph). Second is my re-working to show the changing ratio of age of onset. How easily is this data compatible with no increase?
You made some excellent points there. I did a search about the topic and barely found any specific details on other websites, but then great to be here, seriously, appreciate that.
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Well, I'm trying to make the content here strictly scientific, as would be fit to be in a scientific journal, and avoid the endless gossiping and partisan point-scoring etc that characterises some others.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile I think the study of many subjects is weakened by the following processes. Students-researchers are trained to learn quantity of facts, and indeed are selected on the basis of quantity of facts, mindless of any meaning to them. There's no shortage of facts of unclear significance. Myself, ss I don't have much of a memory for loads of facts, I try to instead identify information that actually tells us something important beyond itself. And I'd suggest that the ARI's chart of the changing ratios is a prime example. And even more when you consider that that change comes immediately in the wake of the major change of dental amalgams, and that it appears that it may not have happened in Poland (at same rate).