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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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  • autismtwo said:

    I suppose we can all agree that the social and living environment has changed in the last 60 years and has had some affect on the Autism Condition. What the article was saying to me, was that with 1 in 50 with autism there has to be an environmental trigger(on the weak gene) as the numbers are too high, if it was purely birth genetics regardless of environment,, then the human genome is in serious trouble long-term.

    There are all sorts of reasons why the incidence rate might be 1 in 50 in a give place.

    For example the incidence rate is known to be higher in Silicon Valley, and Cambridge (UK).

    Both those places don't get a huge amount of rainfall.

    They do both have a high density of high-tech industries, though.

    Also, why do you say "the human genome is in serious trouble long-term"?

    If the majority of the population were on the autistic spectrum then society would be set up for people on the spectrum and we wouldn't have nearly half the issues we do.

    I don't see Autism as a disease, or a problem, I see it as a difference, and a benefit to society as a whole.

    Without Autism we most probably wouldn't be as technologically advanced as we are as a species.

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  • autismtwo said:

    I suppose we can all agree that the social and living environment has changed in the last 60 years and has had some affect on the Autism Condition. What the article was saying to me, was that with 1 in 50 with autism there has to be an environmental trigger(on the weak gene) as the numbers are too high, if it was purely birth genetics regardless of environment,, then the human genome is in serious trouble long-term.

    There are all sorts of reasons why the incidence rate might be 1 in 50 in a give place.

    For example the incidence rate is known to be higher in Silicon Valley, and Cambridge (UK).

    Both those places don't get a huge amount of rainfall.

    They do both have a high density of high-tech industries, though.

    Also, why do you say "the human genome is in serious trouble long-term"?

    If the majority of the population were on the autistic spectrum then society would be set up for people on the spectrum and we wouldn't have nearly half the issues we do.

    I don't see Autism as a disease, or a problem, I see it as a difference, and a benefit to society as a whole.

    Without Autism we most probably wouldn't be as technologically advanced as we are as a species.

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