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29 Aug 2016, 10:45 pm

Tablet and phone games could help diagnose autism, study suggests - BBC

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It is not social, emotional, or cognitive aspects of the gameplay that identify autism. Rather, the key difference is in the way children with autism move their hands as they touch, swipe, and gesture with the iPad during the game.

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29 Aug 2016, 11:26 pm

sounds suspicious. spurious correlations, maybe


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