Now, in that I found this, “We did not adjust for paternal age due to a high percentage of missing information, especially for children of black mothers (19%)”. Ignoring that incredibly sloppy writing - does that 19% refer to all missing information, or just black mothers? - I believe that this is a reflection of decades of policies that destabilized black families and discourage black women from marrying their children’s fathers. Of course, I could be wrong.
So, what exactly are you disputing? That inbred strains of rats and mice aren’t use to model autism? Is that what you’re disputing? I sure hope so because I have a shit-ton of Pubmed cites to drop. I’m* begging *you to dispute that. Or are you disputing that whites do not exceed people of color in the rates of autism? Well, you’re wrong on boh counts. Your cites are either ancient (1996, really?) or either describe “foreign-born” blacks as having high rates of autism. Why didn’t “foreign born blacks” give you pause? These aren’t the blacks your demographic group wrested from Western Africa because they were too lazy to pick their own crops, these are blacks that have primarily immigrated to this country from Somalia. Indeed, in 2014, the government published a study examining the prevalence of autism in Minnesota. The study found that the rates of autism in blacks (1 in 62) and hispanics (1 in 80) was lower than whites (1 in 36) and Somalians (1 in 32).
Thanks for the recent data, but can you explain about the inbred strains? Because it is my understanding that when researches want a strain of subject animals with a specific characteristic, they keep breeding individuals with the characteristic together. How are autism mice more inbred than other strains of research mice? Thanks.
AFAICT it means that the researchers could not determine the age of the father in 19% of the cases of black children with autism. If that is any clearer. So if they had X number of cases of autism in children, Y were black children, .19 * Y = number of cases of black children whose paternal age could not be determined. Apparently 19% of Y was a large enough number to mean that the impact of paternal age on X could not be determined with enough confidence to draw conclusions.
Oddly enough, I KNOW how to do simple math. What I don’t know is. does the 19% refers to all cases, or just cases with black mothers? There is no information included to determine that.
Lol. Oh the irony! Let me ask you this who actually worked to end global slavery? Who sold Africans to begin with? I’d be confused as well if some of my ancestors sold some of my other ancestors.
Are autistic children capable of the same parent-bonding early in life that (many) believe is so important to later-in-life development and positive, healthy relationships in adulthood? I ask you this as you have an autistic child. Im guessing your answer will be some variety of “yes”, based on the above post. What makes a condition a “disability” rather than just a characteristic?
The presentation and reception of your arguments are all seriously injured by your myopic view of “white people”. You ironically paint with the same broad brush that you so viciously attack in the amorphous blob you call white people. It does you a disservice because you clearly devote a lot of thought to your posts. There isnt all that much that separates you, a black man, and me (for example) a white man, inherently. It is culturally and historically that we have such sharply deviating paths.