CHYS 2P35 Lecture 2: Results.docx

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P35
• Professor: Lauren Mc Namara

Document Summary

Research results: reliability, replication of findings (others give the same diagnosis, validity, external validity (if we did the same study again, would we find the same results again, internal (extent to which other explanations can be ruled out have all other variables been controlled for?, external, generalizability. **rise in autism*: rise in air pollution was significantly correlated to autism prevalence rates, study found that living in high density pollution during the third trimester resulted in high levels of autism, studies also linked the amount of fluoride in the tap water (which lowers immune system functioning) to autism prevalence (which has been theorized to be associated with lower immune functioning, broadening the asd definition = a significant rise in autism prevalence (broadening = more categories fit into the autism category, ted talks video, study done with 3000 families with as child with asd; gene sequencing, which showed a significant number of de novo (not inherited occurred to fetus during pregnancy) mutations.