This reminds me of how we beat covid by not testing for it anymore
United States of Autism
Submitted 1 day ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Zkuld@lemmy.world 1 day ago
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tell me you don’t understand sample selection bias without saying you don’t understand sample selection bias.
Nighed@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I think that’s the point
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It’s time to introduce everyone to the concept of Culture bound syndrome
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Good link, thx.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
Obviously it’s because people in Africa and south America don’t have access to paracetamol.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Acet…achet…ackt.see.tomofin…better known as tylenol THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 day ago
New Zealand very smart, just skip Autism altogether.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Many diseases seem to not exist in New Zealand.
mienshao@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
It’s a place to deconstruct disinformation.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 day 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 1 day ago
Just block the idiots.
AugustWest@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
Like the idiots who don’t understand sarcasm?
bonedaddy@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I for one upvoted this post because it is stupid.
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Autism is caused by (squints) the Welsh.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 day ago
They catch it from the sheep.
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 1 day 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 22 hours ago
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Tylenol is just really popular in the US
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The US should just switch to paracetamol. Problem solved!
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
damn sorry for downvotes OP, I thought it was pretty funny
Manjushri@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Poe’s Law. Without a clear indicator, a lot of people took it as OP believing this.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
OP added the description after like an hour, people have kept downvoting after it was added
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Tough crowd. ヘ(^_^)
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
this is what happens when you discard the confidence data
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 day 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 1 day ago
Dave Asprey moment
F04118F@feddit.nl 1 day ago
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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day 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. )
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 16 hours 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