Ganondox wrote:
The research you read seems to contradict the research that everyone else read.
I would like to see the research as it never seems to be quoted.
Here:
Callista wrote:
I've been doing some poking around in the journal databases, and found that the average IQ of people with Asperger's is not 120, nor anything close.
It tends to be slightly below average. This study found an average of 95.76:
Zander, E.; Dahlgren, SO. “WISC-III index score profiles of 520 Swedish children with pervasive developmental disorders.” Psychological Assessment, v. 22 issue 2, 2010, p. 213-22.
So those of you who think "I'm an Aspie; therefore I'm smart; therefore I'm superior" can get off your collective high horse now and join the rest of the human race. Not only does IQ not equal intelligence, but IQ isn't even elevated in Aspies.
From the bottom of this page:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postxf162243-0-15.htmlA link to the study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20528049Quote:
WISC-III (Wechsler, 1991) index score profiles and their characteristics were examined with traditional statistics in a large Swedish sample consisting of children with autistic disorder (n = 85), Asperger's disorder (n = 341), or pervasive developmental disorders not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS; n = 94). There was a clear and significant difference in level between children with Asperger's disorder, who performed in the average range according to the Swedish standardization, and children with either autistic disorder or PDD-NOS, who performed below the average range (almost 2 standard deviations below the mean), but few other differences between the diagnostic groups were found. The variation in this sample, compared with the Swedish standardization, was generally larger in regard to the size of standard deviations and to the proportion of individuals who exhibited significant differences between indices. The result implied that a WISC-III profile could not be used to discriminate between the different PDDs.
I know a lot of people have been exposed to popular literature that claims giftedness is more common in AS, but if anyone has any demographic studies that establish such extremes as 10% of people with AS are gifted or higher, then please link them, because I have been unable to find this research.
Hans Asperger's original research does make claims about intelligence in the children he identified as having "autistic psychopathy", but it should also be kept in mind that he was trying to present these children as ideal, valuable citizens in a fascist society where disabled people were considered disposable (and were actually murdered in large numbers). He was trying to save them from that.