This reminds me of how we beat covid by not testing for it anymore
United States of Autism
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Zkuld@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tell me you don’t understand sample selection bias without saying you don’t understand sample selection bias.
Nighed@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I think that’s the point
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’s time to introduce everyone to the concept of Culture bound syndrome
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Good link, thx.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My favorite part:
Some culture-bound syndromes appear with similar features in several cultures, but with locally specific traits, such as penis panics.
Denjin@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Obviously it’s because people in Africa and south America don’t have access to paracetamol.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Acet…achet…ackt.see.tomofin…better known as tylenol THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
New Zealand very smart, just skip Autism altogether.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Many diseases seem to not exist in New Zealand.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They banned them. You want to fix a problem? ban it.
mienshao@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah if this instance is going to become a place to post disinformation, I’m out. I came here to escape reddit, not double down on its worst aspects.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’s a place to deconstruct disinformation.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
Calm down, you’re in a memes channel, and OP here posts science memes all the time. I’m very sure this is satirical
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Just block the idiots.
AugustWest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you block OP, you have basically left the community, as OP is this community. Either way, I’m fairly certain OP is posting this as in “look at how dumb this is.” It’s a science memes community.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Like the idiots who don’t understand sarcasm?
bonedaddy@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
I for one upvoted this post because it is stupid.
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Autism is caused by (squints) the Welsh.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
They catch it from the sheep.
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
'splains why the Kiwis aren’t even on the map: the whole country got vaporized when they reached critical autism concentration.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
damn sorry for downvotes OP, I thought it was pretty funny
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Tough crowd. ヘ(^_^)
Manjushri@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Poe’s Law. Without a clear indicator, a lot of people took it as OP believing this.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
OP added the description after like an hour, people have kept downvoting after it was added
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Let’s play Pick the Cognitive Biases. Not just in the picture, but in the comments and the reasons people downvoted this.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you see this comment, it could be interesting to get an idea of how many people:
a) Thought OP posted this in like a “Look at how dumb this is” way, or,
b) Thought OP agreed with the idea presented in the image.
I think this might have to do with communication climates (I am so far from an expert in anything) and how a climate of disagreement with peers and prevalent media can foster a climate of disagreement. In other words, if surrounded by stupid people with stupid ideas it’s easy to assume the next stupid idea has come from a stupid person.
Siethron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tylenol is just really popular in the US
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The US should just switch to paracetamol. Problem solved!
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
this is what happens when you discard the confidence data
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Anyway, fact is that the US ranks in the place 33 in the average IQ level, maybe saved by the chinese and corean scientifics working in the MIT
InfiniteKrebs@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Dave Asprey moment
F04118F@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This, but also isn’t that how genetics works? You’re not going to see a native Chihuahua thriving in the arctic.
(But it’s probably something about what countries actually do testing, etc. )
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
countries will higher autism rates have better healthcare… aka higher rates of accurate diagnosis….
also, lower rates of autistic kids being killed due to inconvenience.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Well when you look at Europe you see that the countries that make up the majority of the countries that colonized America have the higher autism rates too