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  • He's going to find (more) evidence that poverty increases the risk of autism and ignore the results, isn't he.

    • Poverty can make adapting a lot harder and therefore make autism more visible but it doesn't increase the probability of being autistic

      • Poverty doesn't directly increase the likelihood of being autistic, but it increases the likelihood of low birth weight, exposure to pollution, and stress in the mother, which in turn are risk factors for autism. It is possible that reverse causation exists with a direct comparison of poverty to autism, but a correlation certainly is there, and a causation is possible.

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