“Empathy/Systemizing Quotient is a poor/biased model for the autism/sex link” by tailcalled
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Thank you to Justis Millis for providing feedback and proofreading on this post. This post is also available on my Substack. TL/DR: Contrary to the theory that neurological sex differences and autism both involve the same tradeoff of systemic versus empathic thinking, I found complex differences. It turned out that men were more interested in technology and more disagreeable, whereas autistic people had a narrower focus on details, were more introverted, more socially challenged, and had stronger sensory sensitivity. I asked people on Prolific a bunch of questions that are supposed to be related to autism, systemizing and empathy. As a preview before I get into the details, the overall results can be seen here:
If there was only a single underlying tradeoff that all of these scales were measuring, then we would expect all of the group differences to be highly correlated, with the items just varying [...]
Outline:
(01:21) Background
(03:01) Data
(04:03) Principal component analysis
(06:43) Measurement invariance
(10:22) Improving interpretability
(15:58) Appendix: Item list
(23:19) Appendix: Score distributions
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First published: November 4th, 2024
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