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If this test becomes widespread, I'd love to take it. I bet many of us in the tech industry have some sort of autism markers. It is a spectrum, after all.

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I doubt most (vast majority) have more than a statistically meaningless set of any hypothetical autism markers. A predilection for technology, math or science and social immaturity are commonly identified items techies use to contend they "may" be on the spectrum, but the reality is even mild autism includes so much more abnormality than that.

And yet tech hubs are crawling with people who are on the spectrum, and have autistic children. Of course not everyone on the spectrum works in tech industry and not working in tech is on the spectrum, but correlation can be seen.

There is also this recently published work: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/393/eaag2882

This one uses machine learning and brain scans to predict the diagnoses for someone as young as 6 months old. It also predicts the severity.

What's also interesting is how it differentiate between people who are at-risk, but without a diagnoses, and those who are at-risk, and have a diagnoses.

I also wonder if there are more to be studied with the Broad Autism Phenotype (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746421/)

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