Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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15 published records
01 / belief
“There is an exception, which is the most replicated autistic deficit. I believe there’s one finding in the contrary direction.”
02 / belief
“If there is one — and again, the evidence is, I think, very weak connecting autism to personality — so just say that maybe, if there’s something, let’s say that personality in autistics might be more high variance.”
03 / belief
“I think there has been some progress, but I do think we have real problems in where we’ve looked and how we’ve looked.”
04 / belief
“Autistics do not have that, which makes them not just different from typical people, but quite different from each other. So this is, I think, being slightly recognized now, that autistic people may be more idiosyncratic.”
05 / prediction
“One of my striking takeaways from your work — and just to be clear, I don’t think you’ve ever said or written this in general terms — but just to see the extent to which parents do not necessarily have the actual interests of their children at heart, that parents seem to have a strong bias for children who will be a lot like they are. And they will take a lot of steps to try to make their children more like them, even if that, in some ways, harms the child from the point of view of the child itself.”
06 / evaluation
“English orthography is so difficult that typical children take an extra year or so to learn it because it’s wacky.”
07 / preference
“I would say that maybe it does seem to be something that if you take the median person, or you do this as a society, sort of collectively, not necessarily as individuals .”
08 / prediction
“. If we find these, we will crack autism genetics.”
09 / evaluation
“How it’s atypical, in my view, involves what I’ve called cognitive versatility and less mandatory hierarchies in how the brain works, such that, for example, an autistic brain will consider more possibilities, will nonstrategically combine information across levels and scales without losing large parts of it, and so on.”
10 / recommendation
“I think in all cases you would want a bigger literature; you’d want to wait for replications and so on.”
11 / evaluation
“We don’t know nearly enough about how any autistic strength in processing information evolves over time.”
12 / evaluation
“They do not use narratives to edit things, to organize things. And that means that they perform very differently on episodic memory tasks and in related tests that require people to organize information into common or popular narratives.”
13 / recommendation
“If you’re autistic and you want to be in the workforce in a way that is not very potentially harmful to you, you would be wise to seek out enterprises like this because they are .”
14 / commitment
“This is, again, my own views, a nongenetics person. So, you have that, but I think you have to be very careful not to confuse advocacy and autism with any group in particular, like parents, or autistics for that matter, their views.”
15 / prediction
“One thing, if I think about your work in general, one thing it’s caused me to do is to see a new bias in how humans make judgment, and that is a bias to underrate atypical kinds of intelligence.”