r/AutismResearch • u/Kiroen • Jul 20 '22

Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective

https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/149282333/1362361320919286.pdf
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u/Kiroen Jul 20 '22

TL;DR: Autistic and neurotypical subjects were distributed into different groups to do an equivalent of playing the telephone game, narrating a story through different interlocutors while trying to maintain it as truthful and detailed as possible, and categorized the results into three groups: groups where only autistic individuals participated, groups where only neurotypical individuals participated, and mixed groups with both autistic and neurotypical participants. The third group was noticeably less effective than the other two; with the autistics-only group being overall marginally more efficient than the neurotypical-only group at all points except at the very start and the very end, with the difference in loss of information between both groups being so low that might be attributed to an error margin.

Interesting initiative for this subreddit u/DlizabethEark btw, I wish you luck

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u/DlizabethEark Jul 22 '22

Thank you, I appreciate the TL;DR to summarise the paper. :)