icyfire4w5 wrote:
Spring, by the way, are you currently researching on the correlation between autism and seasons or are you merely curious? I'm curious too.
If you're looking for incidence of autism and correlation of birthdates - you would have to compare the findings to the overall birthrate of the general population. For instance, it might just be that more people all together are born in Spring.
I was reading Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" a while back. A statistician noted a correlation between birthdates and pro hockey players. They tend to be born in the first three months of the year (Jan, Feb, Mar). They figured the reason for this was that the kids were divided into age groups. The kids born earlier in the year were developmentally bigger/faster than the kids born later in the year. The bigger/faster kids excelled over the smaller/less developed kids and were culled and placed into the next level. In hockey - there is limited ice time - so only the best of the kids get placed into the next level and get the ice time - hence the bigger/stronger kids got to excel more and more over other kids the same age (but who had the unfortunate luck of being born later in the year and, therefore, less developed).
Anyways, I was born in January, on a cold, snowy Canadian day.
I sometimes wonder if I wasn't a bit behind in some ways compared to other kids - but because I had a few extra months of developmental maturity over my peers - my mild deficits were not as evident.