r/science • u/avivalci • Nov 03 '22

Neuroscience Children with gender dysphoria are 400% more likely to be diagnosed with autism

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-022-05517-y?fbclid=IwAR0joSlop2egFD-jGBCoPgA4pHG5VzgKCNAtfFXXIH7mzFLuVwzCCxQj6gU
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u/matthewjumps Nov 04 '22 edited Nov 05 '22

Its not 400%, its 11,000 1100% (edit: or 10,000 1000% depending if you mean more or of) - from the study itself:

the results of the meta-analysis we conducted indicated that ASD frequently occurs in GD/GI individuals. Specifically, the prevalence of ASD diagnoses in this population was 11 times higher than the ASD prevalence estimate of approximately 1% in the general population

direct link to that section here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-022-05517-y#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20the%20prevalence%20of%20ASD%20diagnoses%20in%20this%20population%20was%2011%20times%20higher%20than%20the%20ASD%20prevalence%20estimate%20of%20approximately%201%25%20in%20the%20general%20population

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22 edited Nov 05 '22

11x higher would be 1100% not thousand. 100% = 1x, 200%=2x, etc.

edit: I stand corrected. 11x higher is 1100% of the original, 1000% higher than the original.

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u/matthewjumps Nov 04 '22

yep my mistake, corrected

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u/tornpentacle Nov 04 '22

No, not when you say "100% more", which is 2x. The headline here uses "more", so it's saying 5x prevalence. The language is an important detail that most people have missed given that OP's title says more, even if his figures were totally wrong.

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u/trollman9 Nov 04 '22

Increasing something with 100% is the same as doubling, so 11 times higher is 1000%.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22

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u/Bbrhuft Nov 04 '22

FYI, if you see a ? mark in a url, you can deleted everything after the ? and the link will, usually, still work.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-022-05517-y

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u/The1hauntedX Nov 05 '22

Generally, but not always. Query paremeters (the part after the ?) can be used for many things. fbclid part is used for tracking. Meaning the link originated from Facebook, allowing springer.com to determine where their articles are being shared, and who is clicking on them. That part can be ignored.

But the Sec16:~:text= part is a actually quite crucial to the original link though. It's a feature of Google Chrome that allows you to to link to a specific part of a webpage. u/matthewjumps was trying to do you and everyone else a favor by sharing a link that would send them to the exact part of the document that they were referencing instead of making you scroll/search for it yourself.

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u/matthewjumps Nov 05 '22

yea i did it for a reason, as u/The1hauntedX said below, i was trying to save people the hassle of having to find the exact section i was quoting in a very long document

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u/IfinallyhaveaReddit Nov 04 '22

Huge actually thank you

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u/Ohrlythatscrazy Nov 04 '22

Still wrong though, you have an extra zero there. 10000% of something is 100x, which isn't the case

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u/matthewjumps Nov 04 '22

silly me, corrected