Thank you Deb for letting me know about this! Much appreciated.
I actually predicted that autistic people would be superior in performance in this type of task than normal people years ago, and I advocated that researchers should do studies just like this one. I used to be a psych student at uni and independently of my studies I was absolutely fascinated by the psychology of decision-making and biases in decision making.
My guess is that there might be no difference in the reasoning of autistic and non-autistic people, it may be the case that the "normal" people knowingly give responses that they know are irrational or know may be irrational for social reasons (to "save face").
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ReplyDeletewondered if you'd caught this one..... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14946-never-gamble-with-an-autistic-opponent.html
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Thank you Deb for letting me know about this! Much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteI actually predicted that autistic people would be superior in performance in this type of task than normal people years ago, and I advocated that researchers should do studies just like this one. I used to be a psych student at uni and independently of my studies I was absolutely fascinated by the psychology of decision-making and biases in decision making.
My guess is that there might be no difference in the reasoning of autistic and non-autistic people, it may be the case that the "normal" people knowingly give responses that they know are irrational or know may be irrational for social reasons (to "save face").