Danielismyname wrote:
I know for a fact that the stats for the rate of marriage are accurate for Asperger's (2 to 30%), and HFA (effectively none at all, barring statistical outliers); I read the papers, and they're accurate so far as the diagnosed population goes (rather than people who think they have AS/HFA by taking a test online).
I'd agree that the stigma of receiving an ASD-diagnosis will reduce one's chances of getting married, but my interest is not in the diagnosed population, but in the population with ASD-traits. In the population with ASD-traits there is no difference in number of children (when controlling for age), but fewer are married and more are divorced. Females have much better statistics than males, which probably is expected. I did this analysis with about 4,000 answers and will redo it when I change experimental questions.
And in the context brought up here it is the population with ASD-traits that is interesting, and not the much smaller population that have received autism diagnosis.
I could also do the analysis based on professional diagnosis, since I also have this information. I can do this much better than the 46-subject-study as well, since I will have at least 600 subjects with diagnosed AS/HFA/PDD,