Re:Systemisers are better at maths
by trjordan on Saturday August 04, 2018 @09:58AM
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"A 2010 analysis of autism diagnoses in California did not find that autism clustered preferentially around areas rich in IT industry. Instead, it found that clusters tended to occur in areas where parents were older and educated to a higher level than were parents in surrounding areas."
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Re:Systemisers are better at maths
by s-shellfish on Saturday August 04, 2018 @10:54AM
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That makes sense. More social stability, monotony.
That's a comforting thing.
IT systems are just systems that are predictable within some range of expected behavior without extreme variation, or if there is extreme variation, it's fun (usually).
My guess would be much simpler: older parents == worse genes. It is already proved that some disorders happen more often to children of parent aged 35+ (Down syndrome for instance)
Or older parents == better circumstances for kid, and better chances for kid with autism to be successful.
Re:Systemisers are better at maths
by s-shellfish on Saturday August 04, 2018 @02:21PM
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Ability to create stable mental framework.
Re:Systemisers are better at maths
by SamReidHughes on Saturday August 04, 2018 @02:35PM
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Yep, this is the most prominent theory for why older fathers, particularly, are correlated with autism.
It's not just autism, a whole range of disorders.