Typical social constructivist study and quite immoral too, part of the drive
to lable us as Chimpanzees and Robots (a la Stephen Pinker) I regard it as
irresponsible.
There are many criticisms to be drawn, not the least it starts out by
assuming what autism is, instead of simply scanning and then sorting.
Quite apart from that the notion that one uses a different part of the brain
is not contentious, but I am sure that if we were to take any random
sampling of humanity on any number of tasks we would find a degree of
variance in what parts of the brain light up when doing what. The question
would then be, can they be correlated to existing "disorders" or is the
distribution more chaotic. (I am heavily into chaos thery at the moment,
just a phase I am going through I guess, must be that robotic asocial mind
of mine)
Simply put there are a variety of cognitive styles and strategies, and
whilst it is possible to hypothesise that there is an autistic one, that
does not mean it is any less efficient or inferior. The reason why we have
an autism is not ontological it is entirely cultural.
To me the arrogance is that the study starts from the presumed defecits of
autism and then continues to re
-ify them. There may be methodological flaws with the study other than the
ethical ones which concern me primarily, but what they are I know not yet as
I have not devoted time to its deconstruction yet, and to be honest I am not
sure whether that would be the best use of my intellectual endeavours
anyway, that's what peer review is for, and heck this is one study advancing
a hypothesis, not a statement of incontrovertible fact.
Larry
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> Subject: Re: People with autism 'have problem with self-awareness' -What
do you all think
> of this?
>
> I know it's often said that more males than females are diagnosed with
autism, but why
> ONLY test boys? It might just be a "boy" thing!
>
> Helen
>
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