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12 Sep 2018, 11:40 am

Fnord wrote:
IN MY OPINION, this research is not so much intended to help people with ASDs as it is to help the OP earn a degree.

IN MY OPINION, there is no benefit in it for us or the Aspie community at large.

I do hope that I am wrong on both counts, however.


It's not possible to get a degree in social sciences, psychology etc. without doing some more or less badly designed study that will never have any impact on anything or be published, but requires people to fill out some questionnaires. I do not see why autism should be exempt from being a possible topic.
Arguably it is wrong to not mention the study is just for one's Bachelor thesis if that's the case but apart from this it'd be a necessity for the OP to do some such study, if that's their motivation behind it, and thus there's either nothing wrong with doing so or we shouldn't have psychologists and social scientists.



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12 Sep 2018, 12:03 pm

NorthWind wrote:
Fnord wrote:
IN MY OPINION, this research is not so much intended to help people with ASDs as it is to help the OP earn a degree. IN MY OPINION, there is no benefit in it for us or the Aspie community at large. I do hope that I am wrong on both counts, however.
It's not possible to get a degree in social sciences, psychology etc. without doing some more or less badly designed study that will never have any impact on anything or be published, but requires people to fill out some questionnaires. I do not see why autism should be exempt from being a possible topic. Arguably it is wrong to not mention the study is just for one's Bachelor thesis if that's the case but apart from this it'd be a necessity for the OP to do some such study, if that's their motivation behind it, and thus there's either nothing wrong with doing so or we shouldn't have psychologists and social scientists.
I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with the practice. I just hate to see people participate under the mistaken impression that they are contributing to improvements in the lives of people with ASDs.