Originally Posted by renie1
Also the stat about 80% of kids not passing from 6-16 might be misleading because the test should be passed by age 5. So we can't tell from that stat how many of the kids would have failed it at 5, but now have it.
I agree. The study was done by Simon Baron-Cohen, and I also think the sample is too small.(20 autistic children in total. 16 out of 20 failed the test.) http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~aleslie/Baron-Cohen%20Leslie%20&%20Frith%201985.pdf