This makes no sense. You can identify traits and behaviors that society deems positive and those that it deems negative and use that information to form testabl

This makes no sense. You can identify traits and behaviors that society deems positive and those that it deems negative and use that information to form testable hypotheses. What’s more, one single test cannot evaluate multiple things. It must be focused. Historically, the research has started with the bias that autism is a negative. They just start with the bias that autism is a positive. That they call this out is not important as criticism on the current state of scientific research into autism, but it also allows the reviewers to better evaluate the research to ensure that this bias did not affect the structure or outcome of the research. It also may spur others to re-evaluate older results to see how the unspoken cultural bias that autism is a negative affected the structure, outcomes, and analysis of that research. You can’t take human bias out of scientific research, but that is why the scientific method is rigorous and why the review process exists. However, even then, if your reviewers are part of the same culture, cultural bias is still likely to creep in.