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Does Diet AffectCholesterol?

The usually insightful Overcoming Bias had a post about the Framingham study, a logitudinal survey which found no correlation between diet and cholesterol. Robin quotes an article from the Framingham newspaper; his take is that Kannel is trying to be c...

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Robin, my observations were based on no experimental data that I know of, just my own personal experience and some combination of reasoning and gut instinct. Anyway, if somebody wishes to test my theory here is a more precise statement: normalizing for IQ and education, an Asperger's person will have a more accurate opinion of a physical fact (such as the energy savings from turning a light off inside when it's cold outside and one is trying to heat the house) than a a non-Asperger's person, where opinion of that fact can be biased by social signalling considerations (such as the benefit from being seen as a person who conserves energy). There may be other syndromes besides Asperger's involving a deficit of social signalling that might also work here.

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