Aavikkorotta wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Hmmm ...maybe you're on to something.
I realized that if I included it with the survey, I'd get overlapping answers for the siblings who both answered the survey.
So instead, I'll have a separate survey only for those who are or likely are on the spectrum. And I'll use this thread as data. But I'll include the results for that with my other results.
With respect for your curiosity, I'm sorry to say you're going about this research topic in exactly the wrong way. First google "autism and birth order" and see that much has been written on the subject already. (I was right, older parents are more likely to have an autistic child than younger parents.) Then evaluate how good the research was, and finally figure out how to extend the research.
I guess you are not trained in scientific research methods, and that's cool, but I think surveying a bunch of autistic people and asking their birth order, without realizing that self-selection to take the survey is at play, will lead you to wrong conclusions. And why would you want to do that?
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