http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150310105232.htm>"This study suggests genes for autism may actually confer, on average, a small intellectual advantage in those who carry them, provided they are NOT affected by autism."Uh oh, looks like science shows autists are not more intelligent than normies.
The strongest connection between atheism and autism before now was a paper presented at a conference in 2011 by Catherine Caldwell-Harris and collaborators at Boston University. Survey respondents with high-functioning autism were more likely than control subjects to be atheists and less likely to belong to an organized religion. (They were also more likely to have religious ideas of their own construction, perhaps something similar to Temple Grandin’s.) And atheists were higher on the autistic spectrum than Christians and Jews. But the researchers were not able to demonstrate that mentalizing deficits were responsible for the connection.
That’s where a newer paper comes in. Ara Norenzayan and Will Gervais of the University of British Columbia and Kali Trzesniewski of UC Davis reported on four studies. The first study replicates the finding of the BU research: 12 autistic and 13 neurotypical adolescents took part, and the neurotypical subjects were 10 times as likely to strongly endorse God.
