Sniffnoy comments on The Psychological Diversity of Mankind - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 11 May 2010 05:13:13AM *  9 points [-]

I'm not sure that statement is really meaningful in a nontrivial way. If we just consider autism, then there's some opposite end of that spectrum; of course everyone's somewhere on it, but you would expect most people to be at 0, or as near as makes no difference.

This seems a good time to point out that actually, there's now pretty good evidence that that spectrum does not end at neurotypicality, but continues past it to an actual "opposite" of autism - schizophrenia. Assuming this is correct, everyone is indeed somewhere on that spectrum!