The "real" cause of autism

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05 Jan 2014, 1:22 pm

Organic food. When do a graph ever lied to us? :lol:
http://io9.com/on-correlation-causation-and-the-real-cause-of-auti-1494972271

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05 Jan 2014, 2:08 pm

And how are you defining "organic food"?

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05 Jan 2014, 2:08 pm

More correlation and causation funnies:

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05 Jan 2014, 2:35 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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05 Jan 2014, 5:22 pm

Meh. I wouldn't put too much stock in that chart.

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05 Jan 2014, 5:37 pm

Maybe all those autistics are buying all that organic food!

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05 Jan 2014, 5:39 pm

Now, that chart might have value in asking IF something about organic foods (or those that consume them) have some common factor which could be causing autism, but you're still covering a wide area of environmental factors.

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05 Jan 2014, 5:43 pm

Chart is wrong, it's zombie literature!

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05 Jan 2014, 5:45 pm

The first thing I thought to myself was "Hey! That graph isn't being adjusted for inflation!," not that the whole premise behind the graph was absolute nonsense.

Good one, and I walked right into it. Guess I'm just wired that way. :roll:

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05 Jan 2014, 6:03 pm

Got a big LOL from me.

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05 Jan 2014, 7:43 pm

zer0netgain wrote:

Alternatively, you could ask if an uncharted factor was causing both the rise in autism and the rise in organic food purchase- that the rise in autism and the rise in organic food purchase are both effects of a cause that doesn't appear on the chart.

A famous example is that ice cream purchase correlates with crime. The more ice cream that is purchased, the higher the crime rate. But what is actually happening is that crime is highest during summer and so is ice cream purchase.

For purposes of this chart, (apologies to goldfish- or perhaps credit), you could theorize that enviromental toxins cause autism and also cause people to buy organic food to avoid the toxins. So rising autism and rising organic food purchase would both be effects of the cause that doesn't appear on the chart- enviromental toxins.*

*I'm not saying that I think enviromental toxins are why autism has gone up. But if I did think that, I could use this chart as "evidence".

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05 Jan 2014, 10:51 pm

Janissy wrote:

zer0netgain wrote:

Great points--"third factor" was my first thought as well.

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05 Jan 2014, 10:59 pm

wait, i was Born in 1997 but diagnosed in 2012. soooo was i not affected by Organic food or what?

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06 Jan 2014, 1:56 am

We should sue whoever supplies organic food for making us "sick".

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06 Jan 2014, 2:51 am

New-agers like to eat autistic fruit, and they like to diagnose people as organic.
They are both trends of the new-age type. They care more about their food and each other.
Possibly...

Remember that it takes at least ten years for the soil and trees to detox before you can be genuinely organic.

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06 Jan 2014, 4:05 am

I think that chart was invented by people who lose money when people
buy organic food. Forget that there can be one in four siblings who all have
the same diet who has autism. Or all the people who eat that stuff who don't
have autism.

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