Autism spectrum folks are only at a concentration of about 5% around here (source), and recent college graduates only about 15% (source, though it depends on how you define "recent"), so we're below 1% even before considering factors like college major, unemployment, and willingness to move to DC.
I'm not sure assuming independence of those variables is justified.
True, but in the absence of any strong information about what changes, treating the correlation as weak is a good assumption. And even if one of the numbers is a factor of 2 off, it doesn't change my point - it was already a back-of-the-napkin kind of thing.
Freddie Mac, a mega-mortgage company, is offering "2-3 internships for recent college graduates on the autism spectrum with backgrounds in statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science or information technology" in D.C.
Given the job market, the demographics of LW and the difficulty many autistics have finding employment I thought this worth posting.