Timeline for How have mathematicians been raised?
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| Apr 1, 2011 at 2:59 | comment | added | JRN | For an example of a "math whiz" with Asperger's syndrome, see dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369595/… | |
| Jun 16, 2010 at 21:42 | comment | added | Ravi Vakil | ogerard (and Douglas Zare), thanks --- that is very interesting! BTW, clicking on the link didn't work for me, although I could easily see what it was meant to be. Perhaps it is the fault of my browser. | |
| May 11, 2010 at 12:33 | comment | added | ogerard | I think that Douglas is hinting to the research by Baron-Cohen and al, for instance <a href="ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11439754">this article</a> and many others as well as popular science news version. | |
| Mar 4, 2010 at 2:12 | comment | added | Ravi Vakil | I'd like to hear a source too. I could well believe there are studies correlating mathematical abilities with Asperger's, but this readership in particular should know that extracting broad generalizations is unwise. (I don't mean to imply that Jose Capco or Douglas Zare meant to say more than they actually said.) As long as we are discussing anecdotal evidence: I've noticed significant differences in "socialization" by the country they grew up in, which suggests to me (very tentatively!) that there may be social forces at work. | |
| Jan 18, 2010 at 21:39 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | I believe there have been some serious studies correlating mathematical abilities to Asperger's syndrome, which is on the mild end of the autistic spectrum. However, it is also the case that many people wish ill upon those who show discomforting strengths, and thus, stereotypes like this are spread gleefully far more than they are supported by facts. | |
| Dec 27, 2009 at 21:21 | comment | added | Kevin H. Lin | That sounds like total bunk to me. Plus, how would you quantitatively measure how much one has been socialized? | |
| Nov 12, 2009 at 10:08 | comment | added | Andrew Critch | Do you know of a source for such statistics? | |
| Nov 12, 2009 at 9:45 | history | answered | Jose Capco | CC BY-SA 2.5 |