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Growing evidence points to link between autism and wildfire smoke (grist.org)
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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

btw, the correlation between autistic fathers’ age and autistic offspring is a social one. quiet obviously.

Could you please explain, because it's not obvious to me and if true that sounds like something I'd like to understand.

[–] foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

due to the difficulties with social interactions autistics do by average build the relationships that accomodate parenthood at a later age than other people.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

So you're saying that when looking for a correlation between age of the father and prevalence of autism of the child, you need to account for the confounding factor of heritability since among a population of fathers who are older, there will be a higher prevalence of autism than in a population of fathers of an even distribution of ages (the general population) due to the social factor.

Sounds like a reasonable and logical take. Are you aware of any studies that show this or is it your own hypothesis?