I came across this when looking into a combination of factors; left-handedness, increased spatial reasoning ability, and autism. The path took me on a bit of a journey. As a leftie, I just thought I’d share this one.
I came across this when looking into a combination of factors; left-handedness, increased spatial reasoning ability, and autism. The path took me on a bit of a journey. As a leftie, I just thought I’d share this one.
What percentage of lefties are autistic?
What percentage of the population is autistic? In Australia this year, 1:25 kids between 7 and 14 were identified.
So twice as correlated with lefties, so are 10% of left-handed people autistic?
I’m too concerned that there might be a missing consideration here to be able to say that. At surface value without additional factors, I know that calculation is tempting to make, but the paper doesn’t necessarily say that. I think that logically, a set of very strongly correlated left-handers could exist that could skew the numbers. So if the research doesn’t explicitly say it, then I wouldn’t.