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Does watching TV cause Autism ?

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James Poterba is President of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also the Mitsui Professor of Economics at M.I.T.

Quote"They find that it is, and that this correlation cannot be explained simply by the fact that both cable subscriptions and autism rates were rising over the study period, since communities where subscription rates grew faster experienced faster growth in autism rates as well"

http://www.nber.org/bah/winter07/w12632.html

Electron cathode ray brainwashing delta signal via light cones of the eye to the brain.

Which country watches the most TV and which country has the most autism.

http://www.icare4autism.org/news/2010/09/autism-action-a-global-perspective/

http://www.aneki.com/watch_tv.html

I have not watched TV in the last 5 years, as I knew it was effecting my condition. My parents had the biggest TV in the street as well, growing up. So maybe TV size maybe a correlation as well.

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  • Their basic hypothesis is that in areas where it rains more, kids stay in doors more, and so watch TV more, and this 'correlates' with higher rates of autism.

    Could it not simply be that in such areas the parents of those kids are also more likely to (a) stay indoors, (b) watch more TV, (c) therefore seen more of the increasing coverage of autism on TV, (d) therefore be more more likely to spot autistic traits in their children, and so (e) be more likely to seek diagnosis.

    Also note that his study was carried out by economists, not epidemiologists.

    Also note the really important sentence hidden away in the middle of this report:

    "If watching more television is associated with higher rates of autism in the data, this does not prove that television is an autism trigger."

    Once again, correlation does not imply causality!

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  • Their basic hypothesis is that in areas where it rains more, kids stay in doors more, and so watch TV more, and this 'correlates' with higher rates of autism.

    Could it not simply be that in such areas the parents of those kids are also more likely to (a) stay indoors, (b) watch more TV, (c) therefore seen more of the increasing coverage of autism on TV, (d) therefore be more more likely to spot autistic traits in their children, and so (e) be more likely to seek diagnosis.

    Also note that his study was carried out by economists, not epidemiologists.

    Also note the really important sentence hidden away in the middle of this report:

    "If watching more television is associated with higher rates of autism in the data, this does not prove that television is an autism trigger."

    Once again, correlation does not imply causality!

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