Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced
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#2A quick look at Simon Baron Cohen's tweet[1] (linked from the article) shows that this topic seems extremely divisive and inflammatory to people. Is this retraction and resulting modified study seen as an important victory for people promoting that there are no differences between the "male" and "female" brains?
[1]https://twitter.com/sbaroncohen/status/832490232721371136
Re: Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced
#3Any honest mistake should be welcomed
Re: Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced
#4Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?
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#5Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?
It says in the first sentence or two they found a flaw with their own methodology.
Re: Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced
#6Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?
> "Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?"
It's literally in the first sentence:
"The authors of a study that claimed to find a link between typical male brain anatomy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have retracted it and replaced it with a dramatically changed version after finding an error in their methodology."
Re: Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced
#7Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?
> "Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?" It's literally in the first sentence: "The authors of a study that claimed to find a link between typical male brain anatomy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have retracted it and replaced it with a dramatically changed version after finding an error in their methodology."
Quoting the actual mistake is more useful, as that sentence doesn’t actually clarify the question — it’s what they’d say if it were for political reasons, as well.
> In the letter, Ecker wrote that she and her coauthors had "identified a problem with the script that was used for the prediction of biological sex in male and female individuals with ASD based on their respective neuroanatomy in our original sample."
> That meant that "the probabilities we assumed to be indicative of the default (male) category in the female individuals with ASD, as shown in Figure 1B of our article, were flipped and in fact reflect the probabilities for the category of biological female individuals."
Re: Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced
#8A quick look at Simon Baron Cohen's tweet[1] (linked from the article) shows that this topic seems extremely divisive and inflammatory to people. Is this retraction and resulting modified study seen as an important victory for people promoting that there are no differences between the "male" and "female" brains? [1] https://twitter.com/sbaroncohen/status/832490232721371136
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?" It's literally in the first sentence: "The authors of a study that claimed to find a link between typical male brain anatomy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have retracted it and replaced it with a dramatically changed version after finding an error in their methodology."
Quoting the actual mistake is more useful, as that sentence doesn’t actually clarify the question — it’s what they’d say if it were for political reasons, as well. > In the letter, Ecker wrote that she and her coauthors had "identified a problem with the script that was used for the prediction of biological sex in male and female individuals with ASD based on their respective neuroanatomy in our original sample." > T…
> "Quoting the actual mistake is more useful"
This isn't Twitter, and it's not my job to condense a paper down to a single sentence for people that wouldn't otherwise spare the time to actually read the article in the first place. Commenter is more than welcome to go ahead and do the reading themselves.
Re: Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced
#10A quick look at Simon Baron Cohen's tweet[1] (linked from the article) shows that this topic seems extremely divisive and inflammatory to people. Is this retraction and resulting modified study seen as an important victory for people promoting that there are no differences between the "male" and "female" brains? [1] https://twitter.com/sbaroncohen/status/832490232721371136
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