I'm always reading about Aspies becoming experts in their interests...knowing every statistic, technical detail, etc about it. I have interests that I pursue quite strongly, but I'm never interested in the scientific aspects. For example, my most recent interest is, of course, Asperger's. I have no idea how many out of how many people have it, am only vaguely familiar with possible causes, no clue as to how many boys it affects out of how many girls, what part of the brain it affects, etc, etc. How I do "research" it is going into the boards and reading books on people's personal experiences, how it manifests and affects people differently, etc. Same for when I was interested in the Titanic...for a couple years I would read everything about it that came out in terms of the story of what happened. But I didn't have the first idea how many people were on board (still don't), the exact timeline, how many survivors, etc. Does anybody else tend to ignore the "statistical" and more scientific aspects of their interests when researching? I feel like I'm the anti-Aspie in this regard!