[nuconvert]

"Based on their study of thousands of samples of amniotic fluid, Mr. Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at the autism center have documented that children who experienced high-prenatal testosterone levels make less eye contact as toddlers and have lower communication skills at age 4, though he admits the evidence for any relationship between fetal testosterone and autism has yet to be established."

?? Hmmmm.............so he's just throwing this out there?

[shrinkermd]

According to the author: "Baby girls, on the other hand, follow a different, parallel path. They appear to respond to distress in other people more readily than do boys. They will make eye contact with others more readily. The pattern continues through life, although at differing levels with individuals. These differences don't represent "better" or "worse" values. Human males and females are overall equally intelligent. That intelligence is expressed in different ways. More to the point, men and women have both E and S traits, individually manifest over a wide spectrum. Extremes are few, but he notes extreme Es are more socially comfortable and acceptable than the autistic extreme S personalities."

When he measures testosterone it is possible he is finding another difference between men and women.

[BfloGuy]

?? Hmmmm.............so he's just throwing this out there?

And why shouldn't he? He's not labeling it as a proven fact, merely discussing an observation.

It may spur someone else to do further research and either prove it or disprove it.