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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
That's like saying we have more cancer now than in the past.
Sure, that might be true in certain scenarios (we're very good at creating new ways to give ourselves cancer).
The truth is that we're living longer, increasing the risk and likelihood of cancer, and we've gotten a LOT better at finding and diagnosing cancer and specific types.
It looks nepotism put a failson in charge of this graph.
I think the x axis is "year of measurement | year of birth" since they are 8 years apart. Very unconventional and it would need an explanation but it's not bad to have both pieces of information handy in this context
Absolute nonsense graph. Buckle up, this shit is going to get way worse.
Yeah Autism rates are going up in all groups because people are getting diagnoses. This is partly about better awareness but also partly about money - there is an incentive to expand the diagnosis, diagnose more people and treat more people, which somewhat muddies the water. Autistic Spectrum Disorder first appeared in the American DSM in 2012, unifying 5 existing conditions into one, and then it moved into the international ICD in 2018 (going live in 2022). It is no wonder awareness has gone up, and infrastructure for diagnosis has rolled out.
We're not seeing an increase in Autism, we're seeing an increase in the diagnosis of autism. This graph just shows how stupid and dumbed down the CDC and the White House is under this cretinous president.
It's probably more than just better diagnosis.
"Advanced Parental Age" has a significant body of work behind it, and people are having kids quite a bit older than they used to, because... you know... gestures broadly at how fucked up the world is
The axis makes sense with the label, they just didn't label every data point.
Guarantee you the people afraid of autism has no idea what it even is, other than "bad"
r/DataIsBlursed
For some reason, that doesn't look like a GPT-generated graph, which means... sadly... that someone had to make that thing.... and somebody had to approve it.
What do you bet it's not even based on real data and it's just some random rectangles that they drew.
Didn't we used to hide it?
Yes. This is an artifact of a destigmatization coupled with better diagnostics for evaluating ASD. More people aren't autistic, more people are being diagnosed and receiving counseling for coping with the neurldivergence in a cold and uncaring neurotypical world.
I believe the data through 2016, but the last 3 bars are faked. The increase per bin is 5 higher than the previous.
Just as the microplastics are getting into everything!
A nice dose of synthetic hormones!
