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Re:Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits by gaze on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:26PM (#41573548)
absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
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Re:Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:52PM (#41573737)
There is no strong evidence to go on.

What are you arguing?

They have Autism until proven otherwise?

About 0.5% of people were diagnosed with Autism before 1990: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113600/

If we're making assumptions, statistically, we'd probably want to assume the other way.

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