Rysstad Anne Langseth, Pedersen Arve Vorland
Special Section for Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Vestre Viken HF, Lier, Norway.
Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 Sep;48(9):3253-3255. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3553-6.
Letter to the editor in response to Howard Kushner's claims that our data on non-right-handedness within the autism spectrum disorder were organized, by sleight of hand, so they would give a significant result that would support our desired conclusion. Here, we have re-categorized our data, and present evidence that there are indeed more left-handers within the ASD. Furthermore, we refute claims that we have misinterpreted our results in order to conclude about a causal link between left-handedness and ASD, and highlight our original suggestion that mixed-handedness, more specifically unclear handedness, is the bigger problem, and that our findings of a total 60% non-right-handedness was the more interesting finding.
致编辑的信,作为对霍华德·库什纳观点的回应。他认为我们关于自闭症谱系障碍中非右利手的数据是通过巧妙手段整理的,目的是得出一个能支持我们预期结论的显著结果。在此,我们重新对数据进行了分类,并提供证据表明自闭症谱系障碍患者中确实左利手者更多。此外,我们反驳了关于我们为得出左利手与自闭症谱系障碍之间的因果关系而错误解读结果的说法,并强调我们最初的观点,即混合利手,更确切地说是手性不明,才是更大的问题,而我们发现总计60%的非右利手是更有趣的发现。