• khánh@lemmy.zip
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        1 day ago

        but “exclusion” is, lol

        ps autists will not skew the results, there are vastly more normal kids than autists, and even then only a subset of autists are into IT, making the results skew smaller. i guess you could call it cherry-picking, cuz youre picking from what is supposed to be a random set of people

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          1 day ago

          I dont think you meant normal in a disparaging way towards autistic people, but I think the more appropriate word would be neurotypical

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            Yeah, that is an unfortunate clash between scientific definition of “normal” ie: a statistical distribution which follows a normal curve, or a sample which has very high likelihood of being part of such a distribution.

            I think this is also a part of the reason why many physicists use the word “Gaussian curve” rather than “normal curve” just to avoid ambiguity with the common word “normal”.