Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)

metamuas wrote: post #2

Proximity to freeways increases autism risk, study finds [0]. Having a mother who lived within 1,000 feet of a freeway while pregnant doubles a child's odds of having autism [1]. Basically, white noise can cause autism. People are screwing up their kids at an exponential rate [2]. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210609042055/https://www.latim... [1]: https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20101217/fast-lane-t...…

Why do you think white noise causes autism?

Re: Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)

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Post by kstenerud » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 4:38 AM UTC

If you're going to post joke research, please don't do it about autism. It's already bad enough as it is with all the quackery going around.

Re: Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)

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Post by Trouble_007 » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 4:38 AM UTC

metamuas wrote: post #4

CryoLogic wrote: post #3

Correlated, not caused.

Corrected, thanks.

Correlation does not Imply Causation : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...

Edit: Add;

White Noise : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise

Pink Noise : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise

Red (Brownian) Noise : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_noise

Purple Noise : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_noise

Grey Noise : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_noise

Re: Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)

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Post by metamuas » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 4:42 AM UTC

kstenerud wrote: post #6

If you're going to post joke research, please don't do it about autism. It's already bad enough as it is with all the quackery going around.

Precipitation means the kids stay inside and are more likely to watch television[0]. This was influenced by another paper about the link between precipitation and autism[1]. Why do you think it is joke research? Why did you criticize before looking into it?

[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=989648

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/articlepdf/3...

Re: Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)

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Post by sascha_sl » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 4:46 AM UTC

This is a hilariously bad line of reasoning and basically a signal for me to take econ researchers less seriously.

Re: Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)

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Post by metamuas » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 4:49 AM UTC

dqpb wrote: post #5

metamuas wrote: post #2

Proximity to freeways increases autism risk, study finds [0]. Having a mother who lived within 1,000 feet of a freeway while pregnant doubles a child's odds of having autism [1]. Basically, white noise can cause autism. People are screwing up their kids at an exponential rate [2]. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210609042055/https://www.latim... [1]: https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20101217/fast-lane-t...…

Why do you think white noise causes autism?

Basically, humans are pattern seeking creatures, and children exposed to white noise will try to find patterns in white noise, when there are none, thus leading to the brain maladapting to random patterns. My theory, but I couldn't find a good definition of traffic noise being related to white noise or classified in particular, but who knows.