The source is “I made it the fuck up!”
Also ignoring improvements in diagnostics.
Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway
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amotio@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
I mean, it says the source right there, it’s the CDC…
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The organization run by a brain worm driving a human suit?
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yeah, after deleting any data the CDC used to have that they didn’t agree with. And making up any new data they need to make their preconceived notion as perceivably supported as possible.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Yes, which happened to be the body that made it the fuck up.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
Before you get more downvotes, it’s a reference folks: …wikipedia.org/…/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistic…
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 40 minutes ago
In hypernormalization, making SURE you know they ARE LYING and that IT DOESN’T MATTER is essential.
Because the goal is to make you believe you can’t do anything, so that you give up and demobilize that is their goal.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 48 minutes ago
That’s like saying we have more cancer now than in the past.
Sure, that might be true in certain scenarios (we’re very good at creating new ways to give ourselves cancer).
The truth is that we’re living longer, increasing the risk and likelihood of cancer, and we’ve gotten a LOT better at finding and diagnosing cancer and specific types.
Kaliax@lemmy.sdf.org 40 minutes ago
Population size has also experienced dramatic growth… ffs.
Lemmee@sh.itjust.works 17 minutes ago
Not trying to defend this drivel, but the metric is clearly normalized “per 1000 births”
thejml@sh.itjust.works 41 minutes ago
“8 year olds, dude.” - Walter Sobchak
SuiXi3D@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Now show the testing rate over the same time period!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Anti-vaxxers: No.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
When people say autism they think of the nonverbal kind not the model train kind.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Also remember that we only had diagnostic tools for adult autism beginning in the 1980s.
The rise of autism diagnosis does not necessarily equal a rise in autism.
MJKee9@lemmy.world 56 minutes ago
That’s definitely something an autist would say!!! We found them, boys!!!
danc4498@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Can somebody smarter than me tell me what this is trying to say? There’s a bar for surveillance year and birth year. But, for instance, 2012 is on the graph twice with different values. What does it mean?
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
2012 appears once as a birth year and once as a surveillance year. The graph says that they only ever surveyed 8-year-olds, since the birth year is always 8 less than the surveillance year.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
But they have 12 bars and 7 labels… it makes no sense
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
It’s no longer number go up good season.
VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
They were told to make a graph that increases and that’s what they did.
Eq0@literature.cafe 4 hours ago
Bad graph, they couldn’t decide if the X axis was the birth year of the kids or the year of the test but they give the same information since it’s always 8-year-old kids being tested. Anyways, they wrote the year of the test first and second the year of birth.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 55 minutes ago
Please tell me this is fake
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 hours ago
There is an 𝑥 axis and it’s not too hard to comprehend, although I’d prefer the dividing character to be newline rather than “|”, or only show the latter date.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 42 minutes ago
I honestly don’t know why they even list the birth year. It explicitly states “8 Year Olds”, we can do the math.
Triumph@fedia.io 4 hours ago
The years are either out of order or overlapping.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
No, it’s “surveillance year | birth year” and only every other value is listed. It would be nicer with a numerical value but it’s fine.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
But they aren’t from what I can see. They’re surveillance/birth year pairs in ascending order.
Plum@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
… did they adjust the data points to go from lowest to highest
…so the chart go up?
…
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
I guess we found the answer to “Is math invented or discovered?”
Kolonel_Kahlua@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Same guys that taxed an island full of penguins?
Plum@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Bad Graph says: 0.75% of 8 year olds were diagnosed in 2000 versus 3.2% in 2020.
Correlation =/= causation.
How have the diagnostic criteria changed in 20 years? Autism was a stigma when I was in high school in 2000, now it’s a spectrum. Are there routine screenings at pediatricians now?
Number go up, but what else go up simultaneously?
I hate it here.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
I believe the data through 2016, but the last 3 bars are faked. The increase per bin is 5 higher than the previous.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I think the x axis is “year of measurement | year of birth” since they are 8 years apart. Very unconventional and it would need an explanation but it’s not bad to have both pieces of information handy in this context
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Most magats are autists but not all autists are magats?
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
It’s hard to speculate, but the cdc should take a look at this strong correlation!!
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah Autism rates are going up in all groups because people are getting diagnoses. This is partly about better awareness but also partly about money - there is an incentive to expand the diagnosis, diagnose more people and treat more people, which somewhat muddies the water. Autistic Spectrum Disorder first appeared in the American DSM in 2012, unifying 5 existing conditions into one, and then it moved into the international ICD in 2018 (going live in 2022). It is no wonder awareness has gone up, and infrastructure for diagnosis has rolled out.
We’re not seeing an increase in Autism, we’re seeing an increase in the diagnosis of autism. This graph just shows how stupid and dumbed down the CDC and the White House is under this cretinous president.
Windex007@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s probably more than just better diagnosis.
“Advanced Parental Age” has a significant body of work behind it, and people are having kids quite a bit older than they used to, because… you know… gestures broadly at how fucked up the world is
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
My daughter’s autistic and we were 39 (wife) and 42 (me) when we had her. OTOH, we were two years older and my son isn’t autistic.
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
we’re seeing an increase in the diagnosis of autism.
Absolutely.
We’re not seeing an increase in Autism
Not sure about that. It can be both.
Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Military spending also increased from 2000-2022, ergo military spending causes autism.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 hours ago
r/DataIsBlursed
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Absolute nonsense graph. Buckle up, this shit is going to get way worse.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Just as the mocroplastics are getting into everything!
A nice dose of synthetic hormones!
Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Number of unvaxxed kids also growing in the past 22 years. I think it proves that autism is caused by lack of vaccine.