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Re:The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful... by test43523 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @12:34AM (#29990351)
> Calibrated autism severity scores in our sample are pretty equivalent in males and females

Did the "calibration" cause you to find what you wanted to find? How do you even calibrate something like that.

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Re:The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful... by SubiculumCode on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:23AM (#29995715)
No. It was not calibrated to equalize genders, but for language ability and age.

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/clinical-research-new-test...

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