the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry in the UK on the lack of validity of diagnostic categories in psychiatry http://cepuk.org/unrecognised-facts/diagnostic-system-lacks-validity/). Everyone else, enslaved or not, kept dying off working the fields. His auditory channel is very slow and only turns on when you say his name or repeat the question. Many such cases with Aspergers (me too), whereas for high functioning autism the deficit is inverted for processing vs visuo-spatial. For one thing, the same studies that found that relatives of autistic patients had higher IQs find that the autistic patients themselves have much lower ones. The Gardner study seems to suggest its a very weakly elevated risk, maybe only 1.1x or 1.2x relative risk. Energy/perseverance/drive and other harder to measure factors. Since autism is a polygenic disorder, it suggests a Gaussian model, with traits for autistic thinking normally distributed in the population, but at the tail end of the curve the hyper-systematizers cluster, and beyond a certain threshold of expression lie the autists. Also, if anything, it would be self-control thats being selected against by modern reproductive behaviors, not intelligence. Some of the software I am running to handle those tasks manually requires huge amounts of processing power, resolution, intelligence, and or ability to abstract. Some of the stuff she says about this seem a bit woo-woo, but interesting anyway. I think somewhere in the 90s percentile of IQ is plausibly normal by SSC standards. This study of three large birth cohorts finds a correlation between genetic risk for autism and cognitive ability (beta = 0.07). People running an emulation of normal are usually not staggeringly intelligent. People diagnosed with autism are less intelligent than average (~100% confidence, leaving aside definitional complications), 3. But >39 repeats means risk of the disease. They've also got a blog about what they're doing here. The avoidance of eye contact. ABA research, like autism research in general, suffers from an appalling lack of rigor. I know plenty of highly intelligent people who nonetheless have very poor impulse control particularly when it comes to libidinous desires! the classic stereotype.). I would file this under partly true. This probably calls for some elaboration. Broadly, intelligence might be, say: pattern recognition, ability to readjust priors, visual imagination, factual recall, procedural memory etc. Brasserie Cambier - Croix, Hauts-de-France - Untappd In sum, these findings suggest that neurodevelopmental social impairment exists in varied forms with varied etiologies and varied pathophysiologies, but the ASD diagnostic criteria do not identify a valid entity, Link to the entire piece https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40489-016-0085-x.pdf. This has nothing to do with the OP, but I will definitely comment on your wrestling example, as a wrestler. I have a day job and SSC gets free hosting, so don't feel pressured to contribute. But her personal life is a mess. Its much easier to please one person than an entire society, and unlike our judgmental mouth-breathers in the States, Putin at least seems like a pretty pragmatic and reasonable guy. Given the problems measuring IQ in autistic people (spiky profiles, huge differences between ravens vs. weschler) its also possible that intellectual disabilities are overreported at 15%. Above a certain level of gain, the system _wants_ to break down. They are being positively selected, ie increasing with every generation, presumably because people with the genes are having more children than people without them. I thought we were starting to get clear evidence that genes associated with IQ (through the proxy of years of education completed) were being selected AGAINST in 20th century society, which is intuitive (educated people on average have fewer children, because time during child-bearing years is consumed with schooling). But the Gardner study also ceilings off at 90th percentile intelligence, so at this point Im not sure what to tell these people. Optimizing a complicated biological machinery thing to do whatever intelligence is most likely a very difficult thing for that machine to do. First, the studies. That seems too low, based on my interactions with her: shes not so much slow as odd, so it may very well be that the test isnt a good measure. More evidence that autism is linked to gut bacteria Given that many drugs both medical and recreational appear to affect similarly subtle parameters broadly through relatively simple molecules, theres no reason to assume they cant be much more specifically fine-tuned through genetics. The taller the tower, the stronger the foundation has to be. Its 100% true. I think this is connected to gifted people tend to be good at finding creative solutions to things rather than the most obvious ones, which in the case of weird walking or talking styles can look like autistic behavior. Maybe I just dont understand what you mean by normal. That figure seems very low to me, though it depends what exactly you define as incredibly smart and incredibly charismatic. If we take incredibly to be synonymous with top percentile, there would be 75 million people in the world who are incredibly intelligent. I think (as an interested amateur, not an expert) that the most plausible answer is that human intelligence depends on getting lots of stuff right. Hence the need to go along with pointless social rituals. >The Gardner study seems to suggest its a very weakly elevated risk, maybe only 1.1x or 1.2x relative risk. About 13% of autistic children (in this sample from whatever social stratum they took their sample from) have fathers who are engineers, compared to only 5% of a group of (presumably well-matched?) IQb + low genetic load : extremely high intelligence, slight or undetectable autistic tendencies, strongly tenchnically inclined I dont think there was much correlation at all with years of formal education, and the paths their lives and careers took are almost unimaginable now. Meanwhile, placing people on the spectrum equalizes access to resources, including insurance coverage. If e.g. We had children at around 30. Struggling to describe this. This is true in a sense, but also alters what we mean by normal. My stats-fu isnt strong enough to know if this actually pencils out, though. Wheat: Much More Than You Wanted To Know Theres one other possible source of systematic bias in the data: living and available parents, especially fathers. Could there be some sort of input(s)/connection(s) in early development which is responsible for the development or unfolding of intelligence like that? Im not a great student of philosophy, but I dont think most modern philosophers look at the writings of Plato or Descartes or Kant or Hume and think they were intellectual lightweights. Yes indeed. Book Review: The Perfect Health Diet Get the latest business insights from Dun & Bradstreet. The Waterhouse study I linked above (https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40489-016-0085-x.pdf) argues that even before the autism-aspergers lumping made things worse, ASD samples within single studies (let alone meta-analyses) were not useful for scientific inference because the autism diagnosis lumps together so many wildly disparate developmental and social issues. I think this was also true for some genes supposedly predisposing to ADHD and Schizophrenia. For one, its multiple different kinds of mental tasks whose scores are then combined to get an IQ score. And how come its so inconsistent, and many people have naturally high intelligence but arent autistic at all? I would say that 80% of them carry a fair amount of weirdness with them, which shows in speech impediments, idiosyncratic/shitty clothing styles and obsessions with bizarre topics. I.e. Strongly agree. If you get the volume knob too close to the feedback point, the sound will start to behave strangely it will ring weirdly in a way its never done before. Aspergers was definitionally distinguished from autism due to a lack of the cognitive deficits associated with that condition, but in 2013, the DSM-5 folded it into autism spectrum disorders, so this could make it difficult to analyse the genes of high function autistics if that was the mistake I believe it was. Epistemic status: wild speculation backed up only by anecdotal evidence and theory. > (which are around 80% to 90%; the authors are embarrassed by this, and in a later study suggest they might just have been bad at determining who in their sample did or didnt have autism. While their exact numbers are doubtful, I think the overall finding that common familial genes are much more important than rare de novo mutations survives and is important. Is it because that is a trait many people here associate with passing for normal? Yes, the biggest gains from any given exercise are to performing that specific exercise, but gaining strength that way still allows you to do other mostly unrelated motions that use the same muscle group that you couldnt have done without those exercises. Currently offering travel medical insurance for nomads, and global health insurance for remote teams. Now there is a very strong effect towards their fathers being less intelligent than usual. To the best of my knowledge, the whole Idiocracy concept (humans are selecting against intelligence because smart people have fewer children) is basically nothing more than a just-so story made up by concerned pseudo-intellectuals. Im not suggesting this accounts for the high/low intelligence as the sample size was small. I think top 1% is too low a bar for incredibly. Very simple and wrong toy model: Superficially, this seems more plausible to me than the tower vs. foundation model, especially since its type of phenomenon we already observe for better-understood things the brain does, e.g. (Note that if autism is really one thing [not a complex syndrome], with high and normal functioning individuals, and high vs normal correlates with IQ, then if you only measure the normal autistics, youd get results like the above, due to sampling bias. and b) people diagnosed with autism using current criteria are quite prevalent in the community and presumably functioning in their communities. Increased parental age correlates with autism risk, AIUI. The lectins in wheat interfere with leptin receptors, making people leptin resistant and therefore obese. I have no family history of autism. Comparing intelligence to running fast understates the issue, it is much more like a complex rules-based game such as football, baseball, etc. Like, if you have one copy of a particular high-IQ gene you get high IQ, but two copies of that gene is too much of a good thing and you get autism? IQb medium genetic load : high intelligence, autistic highly functional autist or autistic tendencies, strongly tenchnically inclined Improvements in health care thus cause an increase in the number of autistic children born to more affluent families, but whats actually happening is that were just seeing more of them *survive*. These are just three randomly-selected studies; there are too many to be worth listing. This model predicts something I believe is true many low functioning autistic people have real talents lurking in there, it is just really hard for them or others to access those talents because of all the broken stuff. For all his skepticism in some areas, Scott is remarkably accepting of the overall conceptual framework of psychiatric and psychological diagnosis despite its glaring philosophical flaws, which have been pointed out by many (see e.g. too many CAG repeats and the area destabilizes and you get runaway anticipation that wipes out later generations of your family. When she was three, she had symptoms of autism. Second, even if the test itself is good, autistic people may be bad at test-taking for other reasons for example, they dont understand the directions, or theyre anxious about the social interaction required to answer an examiners quetsions. Genes are not something where you can say, this is good, more of it will be better. But then the answer to your question becomes so obvious that its hardly worth asking in the first place; there are countless people who are highly intelligent without suffering from any kind of psychological condition or personality disorder or mental/emotional instability.
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