I’d be shocked if the researchers doing this study didn’t slice up the study participants by various traits and look for correlations. I.e. find the similar ind

I’d be shocked if the researchers doing this study didn’t slice up the study participants by various traits and look for correlations. I.e. find the similar individuals (wrt gut microbiome) and group them, then check for shared traits (wrt asd). > it’s far from the conclusive answer Idk it feels conclusive to me. The variance in asd gut microbiome is much more than the variance between asd and non asd gut microbiomes. Whatever we call autism is not “caused” by your microbiome. If there is a single trait or “variant” of asd that IS caused by gut biome that doesn’t actually change the truth of the first conclusion.