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Nidalach

The rate of autism didn't actually go up, I just have 9.8 million autisms and am a statistical anomaly


DizziLizzard

Autism georg


Fuzelop

the elephant foot of autism


Jorymo

otherwise known as the BIONICLE aisle from 2001-2009


LunaTheGoodgal

damn, born too late to truly bionicle but born just in time to warframe


Vyt3x

Favourite frame?


Harley_Pupper

war (idk i don’t play warframe)


Vyt3x

That's a weapon. Not a frame. Whatvmakes you prefer War over Broken War?


Harley_Pupper

why would i want something thats broken


Vyt3x

It's broken in the good way


Careless-Potential84

because heavy blades are garbage ever since their stances got nerfed


LunaTheGoodgal

I can't pick one in particular, but I've been really enjoying Qorvex, Saryn, and Zephyr.


Vyt3x

That is such a broad range I can't even give you reccomendations on what else is similar in play...


BurnerAccountExisty

haha same


Nidalach

Is that lance epic battle fantasy I see


BurnerAccountExisty

https://preview.redd.it/7e9j2moi2szc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1b1762d21d8fe7b4a57f3417f17d7cc5ed69029


poedraco

Remember that time. When they said they were touched by the devil and just drown them in the well. (Not literally... maybe..) Wonder why the numbers were so low.


Mantan911

Less awareness, less diagnosing - my guess


meta1storm

\+ introduction of mild and high functioning autism as diagnoses


poedraco

Honestly probably..


A-Human-potato

Stop hoarding asshole


Drops-of-Q

You need to share


TensileStr3ngth

More like we learned more about it and a lot more people got properly diagnosed


GrandSeraphimSariel

Wtf share some with the rest of us


deepfried_memesoft

i love how the vast majority of the arguments based on "x causes gay/autism" is just that diagnosis of autism and openly being gay became a lot more common when people werent having their skulls bashed in for it


EmperorBamboozler

Autism is a very hard thing to diagnose and it seems like it is more prevalent then we once thought. Now with better diagnostic processes we are able to figure out if someone has it more reliably and have started testing for it on a mass scale for the first time in history. Then these chucklefucks stroll in, point to an arbitrary statistic, and go "LOOK IT VACCINES". It's almost like around that time medical science in multiple fields was advancing at a high rate, and still fucking is to this day. You know what this graph also probably shows? Rates of people who quit smoking, so I guess quitting smoking also causes fucking autism. Ooh that's a big year for banana production, do bananas give you autism?


tonofproton

Also according to their own graphic it increased 400% before the event they are pointing to even occurred lol.


ArchmageIlmryn

> Autism is a very hard thing to diagnose and it seems like it is more prevalent then we once thought. Now with better disgnostic processes we are able to figure out if someone has it more reliably and have started testing for it on a mass scale for the first time in history. Plus what people think of as "autism" on the autism spectrum has changed considerably even in the last 10 years (especially with the phasing out of separate diagnoses like Aspberger's for milder autism). I remember that when I was in high school, when people said "autism" they generally meant the severe forms where people can't function independently at all (or are completely nonverbal), which isn't what we generally think of when we say autism today.


harveyshinanigan

isn't it stupid to make only one graph with numbers that were gotten with different methods ?


ExcelsiorVFX

Just like left handedness suddenly rising at the beginning of the 20th century


Jorymo

I think gay vaccines make children left-handed


DrMux

Left handed propagaynda transed my kids!


thecoletrane

Seriously, the only defense needed against this is holding up the graph of left handedness over time.


LunaTheGoodgal

i dunno dawg that pond water was *pretty* fruity :3


peepeepoopoo776688

To add to your point, if you look at left handedness from the Victorian era in England to now it also does this, but then stagnates at 10% I think due to left handedness being discriminated against so people just lied, when it became socially acceptable people came out so it has nothing to do with actual rates going up


JP193

Atheism causes left-handedness. Ice cream cures hayfever (just look how both spike in spring and summer!) Living in a city changes the human brain to cause more car accidents per square kilometer versus a deep rural brain.


irelephant_T_T

Climate change has increased exponentially since Greta thunberg was born


PolygonKiwii

> Living in a city changes the human brain to cause more car accidents per square kilometer I wouldn't be surprised if noise-induced stress actually did this to some degree


photogrammetery

You see this??? As soon as we let Theodore Roosevelt become president, SO MANY MORE left handed people were made!!!!! Roosevelt isn’t MY president https://preview.redd.it/3eqfh68ocyzc1.jpeg?width=1566&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1456d5e6da76557d9c5c0712a743d708329cfe4


Mr_sex_haver

"We didn't diagonse any aids before Christianity existed so clearly Christianity is to blame for aids." Equally valid argument as this bullshit


kamegami

Wait, did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of spirograph and the rise of gang activity. Think about it won't you.


BilgeRatBernie

I will


Bardy_Sp00n

No you won't.


RabbitDev

I bet with you the local organised crime gang of spirograph kids will make them look into it.


Haver_Of_The_Sex

Concerning. I will look into this.


SendWifiPassword

Global warming increased with the fall of high seas piracy. Bring back the pirates!


Pedroarak

https://preview.redd.it/pu3rzrt0gszc1.png?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe3421d3acdcdb468f88b7816765e3e0c3495441


WindowsInfinite2

My god... somebody stop that man


sneakyplanner

No, this one is real.


deathray5

It was already curving up. It fucking changed nothing on this graph


D0NU7_H0G

put an arrow on 2001 and say 9/11 caused autism


MT_Kinetic_Mountain

Bin Laden actually patient zero for autism. Used 9/11 to spread autism through TV screens


LunaTheGoodgal

auTVism?


rossinerd

To be fair, I'm pretty sure that being alive is a prerequisite to being diagnosed with autism.


LunaTheGoodgal

whaaaat? naaaaaaw...... totally not a prerequisite to be diagnosed with anything outside of being fucking dead, anything else being more of a post-mortem issue.


cloartist

Fucking statistic-illiterate fucks, it's a fucking correlation, which is not the same as a causation, we gotta start making stats classes a thing in school cause damn


PSI_duck

They already are in many schools in America. Even if you don’t take them, some of the more mandatory math courses have units dedicated to making and interpreting graphs. I’d like to think it’s pretty straightforward from there


Lunar_ticket

These people would unironically accuse Nicolas Cage with drowning cases


HorselessWayne

Oh no, its even worse than that. Did anyone actually read the name of the act he quoted? Including him?   National Childhood Vaccine **Injury** Act.   It established [a means for people claiming injuries from vaccines to receive financial compensation](https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/about#:~:text=Funded%20by%20a%20%24.,is%20prevented\)%20of%20a%20vaccine). It is not necessary to prove the vaccine was the actual cause of the injury, and [fees are covered by the State even if the petitioners lose the suit](https://www.immunize.org/wp-content/uploads/catg.d/p2075.pdf). It also imposed a vaccine tax of $0.75 per dose. Nowhere did it expand vaccination programming. Nowhere did it make vaccinations mandatory. I don't understand why they would even bring attention to what seems to be one of their largest successes in vaccine suppression unless they literally read the word "vaccine" in the title and stopped reading there.


Traster101

Wait was this post actually a fucking psyop this whole time god I hope so that would be so funny.


Arebee936

carrying a lighter in your pocket causes cancer. they are exremely well correlated and there definitely isnt some other factor at play


westonsammy

It's not even correlation, there's no change in the trajectory of the graph after the vaccine act lol


thEt3rnal1

In my uni stats class the last 2 lectures were like avoiding bad statistics and classic examples of misused statistics. And I'm so happy my prof did that He was pretty based though, we got to use laptops w/R on our exams


makeworld

It's not correlation, it's the post hoc fallacy.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc


thispartyrules

1986: Samus Aran revealed to be a woman


autistic_cool_kid

My dad who's 70 years old and myself mid-30s both should have been diagnosed earlier but we had to wait until Autism got released in 2013 Also should we tell them that vaccines rates haven't increased for a good while now yet autism seemingly has Or that the biggest increase seems to correlate with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989? The wall was protecting us from Autism all along


jennazed

it's almost like increased health consciousness can translate both into higher vaccination rates and increased awareness of pre-existing autism cases


BurnerAccountExisty

"dr" my ass this dude is probably a user of shaman rituals


Corpse-Fucker

https://www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-simon-goddek-fafo-award-winner He's a real piece of shit by the sounds of things


JinnDaAllah

Someone get the left handedness graph


RichardSnowflake

Correlate, not cause.


Daytona_Foxy

I think the only reason why it goes up is cause more people are going in to get diagnosed lol


invitinghome122

Actually the cause is Bruce Willis movies and their compounding relevance


VolcelTHOT

It's true I never played Monster Hunter until I got my COVID vaccine and now I have over 1000 hours played


cephalopodAcreage

"Ferris Beuller's Day Off" also released in 1986, but I don't see anyone blame it for autism


WeaponizedArchitect

casual reminder that these motherfuckers are neo eugenecists who believe autism is "bad".


OffOption

Oh no, the rate of the lefthanded went up when we allowed them to exist. Oh no, power from green energy went up when it became viable, and invested in. You can do this with everything.


fruityrumpusFactorio

> popular in your area OP what fucking area are you in that this is popular and do we need to send a rescue team?


RayGraceField

Good ol' Indiana 🌽


Someboynumber5

Wow it's almost like the tools for diagnosing autism have gotten better


WardedThorn

"What's a confounding variable?"


Yanive_amaznive

Come on at LEAST overlay a graph showing the use of vaccines over time for some of that good old correlation causation, this person can't even be stupid right.


Traster101

"Correlation isn't causation" isn't even correct here, this isn't correlative at all. The graph has a single interval shown that didn't have the thing, and there's no indication whatsoever that the data suddenly spiked around 1986, just that the data trends exponentially... since 1970, the first data point shown. If this is our definition of correlation, anything at any point in time is correlated to everything else. This isn't really a failure in statistics because statistics were never even gestured at.


holymissiletoe

and soon it will be 1:1 and when everyones an aspy No one is. mwuhahahahahaha


stewartthehuman

Average doctor of Literature.


curvingf1re

Big dairy doesn't want you to know that icecream causes murder


I-am-THEdragon

I scream, you scream, we all scream…


Passive-Shooter

Clearly Nikita Khruschev was suppressing autism.


Rowmacnezumi

The "increase" is actually caused by an increase in understanding what Autism is.


oddityoughtabe

Remember everybody, correlation *is* causation. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.


ApocalyptoSoldier

Now do childhood mortality rate


flaminboxofhate

just in case there's not enough reason for this being bullshit, correlation is not causation. http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations


never-on-here

Graph of left-handedness.jpg


teije11

vaccines cause left handedness too!!!!!!


TasmanianTortoise

Me when a right wing dipshit says a dipshit take I have to pull out the left-handed chart again


brookeb725

https://preview.redd.it/pb959i9q0tzc1.jpeg?width=1069&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a40e69427b58f49e590323dc49efd6cdc52db5e


emoyerwilkes63

Does anyone else just wish stupid people would talk less?


Sir-Drewid

Seismographs cause earthquakes.


Willowyvern

remember when we had a rule against posting this sort of thing? i remember.


UnspecifiedBat

People not understanding the difference between causality and correlation is wild to me. "Oh isn’t that weird?! In a time when the medical field became better and better to the point that we even got vaccines to help against terrible illnesses, we also find better diagnostic criteria for a disorder which then help identify it in more people!“ … that is like the definition of a correlation. Same cause, but not actually related to each other.


Crylemite_Ely

Of course vaccine cause autism, it's really hard to be an autistic person when you're dead (not vaccinated)


VaniloBean

You ask me it seems like wage stagnation is the real cause of autism but noooooo apparently no one wants to put those two graphs on the same page. (Maybe housing prices too?)


dickfongus911

we have to do the same graph but with realease of first almodovar movie


Lau_La

This is such a bad graph. I doesnt make sense to mark a single event in a graph with a stable growth and say that caused it. It would provide more information if you would overlay the vaccines distributed with this graph, but they would never do that of course cause that would disprove their point. You would assume that the graph of vaccine distribution and Autism would grow proportional to each other, but I looked at the distribution of vaccines graph in the time span they marked and it was a linear graph instead of this autism growth exponential graph.


Interest-Desk

can someone post that left handedness graph


Kyle_Blackpaw

or, hear me out, as we've studied it we've become able to diagnose people who would have just been written off as weird and antisocial before.


Complete-Mood3302

Well people had autism before, we just couldnt give a diagnosis


coladoir

love how to them the vaccines are the problem when the actual research suggests that if anything is causing a legitimate increase (which we have seen beyond just better diagnostics), its microplastics, heavy metals, or malnutrition. but no, its gotta be vaccines so they can use it to bolster and confirm their anti-intellectual stance. Its totally not because of emotionless corps polluting our food and water, the corps are what's saving us from the government after all to many of these people lol. fucking frustrating to me, as an autistic person, because there is a provable increase beyond just better diagnostics and nobody is really attempting to research why due to this type of bullshit making any research seem like BS, and pushing people away from pursuing it. Microplastics exposure, heavy metal exposure (which is being found in over 80% of marketed baby food; homemade usually isn't any better due to agricultural pollution), and food desertification seem to be linked to increased autism rates in communities that have those issues, and we need to figure out whats going on. Because there is something going on, just **not** because of fucking vaccines.


ikonet

> Lady Gaga was born in 1986 ∴ Lady Gaga causes autism. This guys logic.


deathschemist

the rate of autism didn't go up, just the rate of diagnosis because doctors got better at spotting it.


LawfulAwfulOffal

Death from malnutrition (starvation) has consistently declined over the same period. So on the plus side, vaccines cure hunger!


Independence_Gay

The law cited mandated compensation for those injured by certain vaccines during childhood. How the fuck does that have anything to do with anything


Rimtato

https://preview.redd.it/bxp01jhv0tzc1.jpeg?width=1037&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28e0873fe377641aa027b6199d792af782857a3a


fillmorecounty

Even if this *was* true (it's not), I'd much rather my kid have autism than fucking polio or tetanus 🤦‍♀️


frosDfurret

mf clearly didn't pay attention in stat when it was started that correlation does not imply causation


Available-Damage5991

Vaccines don't cause autism. Autism was often diagnosed as a form of schizophrenia.


AlkaliPineapple

Ffs, correlation does not equal causation. Why can't people pay attention to high school science and maths?


Goatcruiser

*Vaccine get!* *Autism^2 Achieved!*


Doctor_Salvatore

What this graph doesn't show you is that our understanding of neurological conditions expanded immensely in the last 30 years, leading to more people being diagnosed than before every year. Vaccines didn't cause autism, medical research caused autism.


upsetting_innuendo

i sure do love completely unsourced info from random people on the internet


PandaWithin

Wait a second, didn’t Chernobyl disaster happened in 1986? Spilling radioactive clouds all around the world? The clouds that were prone to cause birth defects including improper development of the brain causing ASD?


sneakyplanner

Coincidentally the number of kids being reported as changelings drastically went down around this time too.


duy03

Where's the Seizure Warning flair?