Researching autistic asortative mating

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Being intruged by the female Aspie photo calendar thread, I got an idea I'd like some feedback on.

It seems to be "well-known" that there is asortative mating going on between Aspies. The question is if this also involves different attitudes towards what is attractive and not, and if Aspies and NTs rate attractivity similar or not.

Now, by giving Aspie-quiz takers a set of pictures (females for male participants and males for female participants) and letting them rate them for attractiveness and perceived "aspieness", it would give some interesting information about how asortative mating might be operating.

The pictures should be of both Aspies and NTs, and quiz-takers should not know which are autistics and which are not.

What do you think? Does anybody want to participate?

I think to be scientific you would have to generate the faces or atleast
alter a few faces. Like change eye shape , eye spacing, etc Myself I feel
people look better in motion than in still images. I've notice quite a few
aspies have attached earlobes. I would be curious if that is more common in aspies.
There is software used by police that generates faces. I think its called "Faces".
I bought a copy a long time ago.

rdos, It would be intresting having a scientfic experment.

But I have a question. I noticed that you are also have a theory about the orgin of autism form the neathaderthals. Does this experment having thing to with that theory? I'm just wondering.

There are several other "loose ends" here that some have already mentioned.

First, there is prosapagnosia, which is an interesting condition, especially in relation to generation of Neanderthal faces. However, testing for prosapagnosia would involve presenting several faces with some attributes, for instance a name, and checking if people could recognize them on a second glance. Using both modern faces and Neanderthal faces could provide interesting results.

Second, there is (female) "mating cues". I got a video from a professional a while ago with various female courtship behaviors. I did react to some of them but not to others. Unfortunately, Jay didn't allow me to redistrubute them or use them for other purposes, so I cannot test others on those. However, I now know what to look for in NTs as possible courtship cues. I also have a hunch that autistics uses different cues. Therefore, presenting video-sequences of courtships would be extremely interesting, but not very easy to do.

Third, there is my original idea with static pictures. This could possibly be intersting if autistics like some special looks.

I'm willing to join in. Seems you have a interesting theory on your hands and I found my self attracted to it.

I have a book "Body language Secrets:A Guide During Courtship And Dating" by
R. Don Steele. That guy loves to spam me with other products he has. So I'm
guessing if he had the video you needed he might let you use it if he thought
you might "promote" some of his products. I changed my e-mail address so I do
not have his internet location handy.

They have finally compared Neanderthal DNA to Homosapien DNA and found that there is no relation.


http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/neanderthal.html

In July of 1997 the first ever sequencing of Neanderthal DNA, a breakthrough in the study of modern human evolution, was announced in the Journal Cell (Krings, et. al., 1997). DNA was extracted for the type specimen and the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence was determined. This sequence was compared to living human mtDNA sequences and found to be outside the range of variation in modern humans. Age estimation of the Neanderthal and human divergence is four times older than the age of the common mtDNA ancestor of all living humans. The authors suggest that the Neanderthals went extinct without contribution to the present mtDNA of modern humans.