SBC published an interesting paper, his group gave undergrads the SQ and EQ tests. He divided the undergrads into four populations
Physical science
Biological science
Social Science
Humanities
He found that for both male and female students as you go down these lists the students tend to have lower SQ and higher EQ scores. Thus a physical science has a mind which is closest to the autistic mind. So I would expect that if this theroy is right that the maths, physics and chemistry departments will have plenty of people with AS and other forms of autism. I know one unit in a chemistry department which at one time had four people who fitted the AS profile very well out of a total of 20 people in total.
The problem with the SQ and the EQ tests is that they may well be rather flawed.
For example the SQ test includes the question "Would you feel comfortable repairing the electrical wiring of your home ?".
This is a rather disversive, a person who knows nothing about electrical work would be likely to say "no" (I hope so), a person who has a little knowlege of how to do such work might vote "yes" (These are the ones which scare me most). Some people with a lot of experience of some types of electronics work like me would be inclined to vote "No". I hate doing house wiring work, it is uncomfortable work with things in odd places which forces me to adopt stress positions for a long time. Also some people who are experienced in electronics / electrical work other than house wiring in some parts of the world are not allowed to do the work by the electrical law (like the part P regulations in the UK). While in Germany any radioham has a "not for profit / reward" housewiring license (they are allowed to work on their own home but not someone elses.
In some parts of the world the person who has all the right training / permits to work with 20 kV DC on radar sets and TV transmitters can lake the permit required to legally do housewiring. So it is possible to be a very experienced electronics worker and not be allowed to do housewiring.
Also as a result of some things, in some parts of the world men are more likely to have learnt how to do housewiring and other similar work. So the test might have a sex bias. While this is only one question from the SQ test I am considering it is important to ask why fraction of adult women who have a autism diagnosis is lower than the fraction of men who have a diagnosis.
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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.