ooo I don't think I've seen that one before. Autistics (well Aspergers in particular that is) are seen as "extreme male brain" cases (the excel at man things and fail at woman things, the description is widely (fully??) accepted by psychologists) where as this does seem to be an "extreme female brain" syndrome. I wonder if there's an equivalent lot with relatively normal IQ (though of course Iq tests are a crap way to measure intelligence and there is a bias towards male skills in the subtests, so maybe they couldn't pass).
hmmm although there doesn't appear to be much of a female bias in the cases (that's from the deep research of the pics on the first few pages of google images)... whereas autism is 1:5 male to female... and I can't find any text to say that the williams syndrome is anything other than 1:1 male:female...
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Date: 2006-01-13 06:06 pm (UTC)Autistics (well Aspergers in particular that is) are seen as "extreme male brain" cases (the excel at man things and fail at woman things, the description is widely (fully??) accepted by psychologists) where as this does seem to be an "extreme female brain" syndrome. I wonder if there's an equivalent lot with relatively normal IQ (though of course Iq tests are a crap way to measure intelligence and there is a bias towards male skills in the subtests, so maybe they couldn't pass).
very cool :)
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Date: 2006-01-13 06:16 pm (UTC)