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Simple tests like this are fun, catchy, spread like wildfire and almost always completely bogus.
by jcoffland 11y ago
Simple tests like this are fun, catchy, spread like wildfire and almost always completely bogus.
- brianwawok 11y agoHey I hear if your hand is bigger than your face you are autistic. *Smacks your hand and gives you a bloody nose
- fapjacks 11y agoThis (s/autistic/stupid/) is how I met one of my best lifelong friends in my first week of junior high.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoThis was my first thought. I imagined a steeple but how would that mean any sort of diagnosis? Simply: it wouldn't. Besides the latest research on autism defines it as a hugely vast spectrum. So vast that I thought many were thinking everyone is technically on the spectrum.
- mchahn 11y ago> everyone is technically on the spectrum. Most spectrums start at zero.
- conceit 11y agoSpectra like size? Are there zero meter tall buildings, Prof. Smartypants?
- justinclift 11y agoThere are even negatively tall buildings... :)
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoNo they don't. The electromagnetic spectrum doesn't even have a zero (a wave with zero frequency isn't a wave).
- mchahn 11y agoHmm. One could define DC to be a wave with zero frequency and most equations would work correctly. You often define a value at a singularity as a fixed value because that fixed value is approached as you get closer and closer. I personally have no problem thinking of a wave with zero amplitude.
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- PhasmaFelis 11y agoHmm. Maybe. I think you can have a wave whose frequency is effectively zero for practical purposes, but in the most literal sense, a wave is defined by oscillation. In the case of EM in particular, I think the uncertainty principle says that a photon can't have zero energy, and thus can't have zero frequency (though it can be immeasurably low).
- kazagistar 11y agoHmm, I am not convinced. Photons are quantized, and there is a significant difference between a photon existing and not existing.
- dekhn 11y agoYes, frequency 0 is direct current.
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- andrewflnr 11y agoWe're not talking about AC frequencies here. Electromagnetic waves are different. The only 0-frequency EM wave is literally "no wave". Nothing happening.
- mchahn 11y agohttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=autism+abstract+thinking&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibubXo-MrLAhUU8GMKHaXoBZ0QgQMIGzAA https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=autism+abstract+thinkin...
- conceit 11y agoFor one, it only tests what people say and they answer only what they think they were thought. Secondly, imagining an image doesn't preclude parallel abstract thought.