@KatyElphinstone Also a bit curious as to how a bunch of 'aspie' science hippies would would construct a counter experiment, and thereby "proving" the same thing, but with the roles swapped so that allistic is verified as the dysfunctional mode of experience.

@KatyElphinstone I think I'd like to take it even a bit further and claim they are begging the question.

Assuming that there's a correct and not-correct mode of experience, then constructing at test that verifies the not-correct mode users as not operating "correctly". This is a text book example of a circular argument.

Use of words like "non-autistic" rather than "allistic" kind of gives this away, although arguably that could also be due to the article being a bit old.

@KatyElphinstone Reading through the article this part stood put to me.

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The researchers tested 13 autistic adults and 13 non-autistic adults on about 50 scenarios similar to the jellyfish example.
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This sounds like a small sample to me.

I also wonder how they partitioned the sample? If they sorted individuals on behaviour typically seen as ”autistic”, and then tested if the cohort had a higher likelihood of the property they partitioned on, then thet have proven nothing.

@ShadowJonathan I have a special hatred for ads in the commuting system.

1) After rent and food the train pass is already my largest monthly expense. I pay more for it than internet and electricity combined.

2) Unlike most other ad selling places the income sources for the commuter system is public information. Ad revenu is like 1~2% of total income. IIRC it’s lower the rent for all the stores + vening machines in the venue.

It makes absolutely no sense that those ads exists.