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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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  • How do you explain Autism in people who for whatever reason, don't watch that much TV? I remember as a child, rarely watching TV. Our school holidays mostly consisted of taking a packed lunch and frisbee down the park for a few hours.

    How do you explain why you can have 2 siblings who were brought up the same way, yet only one has Autism?

    Autism existed way before TVs were invented; but those people with Autism (or would have that diagnosis if they were diagnosed today) would have either been ignored, or diagnosed with other disorders.

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  • How do you explain Autism in people who for whatever reason, don't watch that much TV? I remember as a child, rarely watching TV. Our school holidays mostly consisted of taking a packed lunch and frisbee down the park for a few hours.

    How do you explain why you can have 2 siblings who were brought up the same way, yet only one has Autism?

    Autism existed way before TVs were invented; but those people with Autism (or would have that diagnosis if they were diagnosed today) would have either been ignored, or diagnosed with other disorders.

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