ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Callista wrote:
Yeah, and I can "prove" refrigerators cause crime. Correlation/causation...
(Refrigerators per square mile can be directly correlated to crime rate per square mile. Of course, they can also be correlated to people per square mile...)
Autism has a heritability of something like 85-95%, last I checked; the numbers vary depending on whether you use classic autism only (the lower figures) or the entire spectrum (the higher figures). That was determined through twin/adoption/sibling studies and a lot of math.
The increase is almost certainly accounted for by increased diagnosis. Did you know that the "mental retardation" diagnosis rate has decreased at a very similar rate to the increase of autism, for example? A lot of people are getting re-diagnosed because they get better services with an autism diagnosis, even though they usually qualify for both labels.
The "stealing MR cases" phenomenon, and the Asperger's and PDD-NOS labeling of the milder cases which would otherwise have remained undiagnosed altogether, really accounts for the rise in diagnosis.
Yeah, but the refrigerator is not the same as the freeway that carries tons of machinery a day all emitting fumes of various compositions. A refrigerator isn't even remotely like a freeway and that has to be taken into consideration.
But, what if you had two groups of refrigerators. In group one, the thermostat is set at 40 degrees f. In group two, the thermostats are set at 50 degrees f. Ten degree difference. What if you have two groups of people and none of them knew the differences in temperature. One group is instructed to get sour cream from refrigerators with the 50 degree thermostats, the other gets it from the 40 degree refrigerators. The sour cream has gone from grocery store refrigerator to both groups of refrigerators used in the study and remain ten hours before used for food. Both parties make a dip out of the sour cream and eat it with some tortilla chips. The group who ate the sour cream that had been in the 40 degree refrigerators report no gastrointestinal illness whatsoever and are feeling fine, while the group who ate the sour cream that had been in the refrigerators with thermostats set ten degrees higher later complained of indigestion and stomach aches.
Who can deny there isn't a causal factor in this. The warmer refrigerators were a factor, though maybe not the only one in people getting ill from the sour cream.
It's the same sort of thing with the freeway study, though we aren't talking about an illness, but we are talking about a certain condition facillitated by other conditions. In the case of the gastrointestional illnesses it's the warm refrigerators. In the case of autism, it's the proximity to freeways.
you are very on topic
you see freeways are in places of population, places of population have a higher frequency of autism, what we do know is that there are places with higher percentages...compared to other places...a good example is that northern united states has most of the autistic population as to the southern states have less
however, the northern united states holds more of the population than the southern
the article
http://thestir.cafemom.com/baby/114152/ ... s_the_link
they are talking about pollutants and the study is coming from califorina, california has one of the largest amounts of autistics compared to other states...this again is because califorina has a higher population its very simple
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/Census10/ ... tors.phtml
you see the higher concentration of people you have ,the higher chance of autism being prevalent...however the lower concentration of people, the less chances of people in that group are autistic
this is because of population differences, there are no sneaky toxins getting into mothers imitating disorders
what is in the mothers of these autistic children is rhesus negative blood
the blood is neanderthal blood, that is to say the protein is from neanderthals that envelop each blood cells...the focus here is the protein outside of the red blood cells
autism and asd traits are found in almost everyone, however certain people with such genetic disposition might express the phenotype as well
i believe among neanderthals, cro-magnons and the fall of the previous civilization had other humanoid races responsible for other "cultures" as well, our diversity is so profound
if we stop labeling people with disorders and wake up to physiological & neurological diversity it will answer many questions to the cause of these "disorders"
you see i am just trying to understand, research and explain our diversity
it's a lot like registering a sense
you're looking at a picture and its nothing but lines, colors and spots...until someone (who made it) explains what it is...then it registers you're aware, you wake up and see the bigger picture for just the lines, colors and spots it once was
22 Dec 2010, 11:08 am
